Great piece... incredible research went into this. My crazy father used to tell me I had to act like a lady but think like a man because it was a mans world. So I did. Loud, assertive, bossy, using humor as a door opener. My first boss was a woman, my mentor, who still to this day, I value her opinion on everything.
I will always be sad and disappointed in the human race and the racism they so easily engage in.
Thanks, Susan. It's discouraging to see the huge footprints the horrible people have. Regimes like the one we are experiencing enable bad behavior and allow the footprints to grow. I'm cheered by the size of the resistance, but alarmed at the continued level of apathy.
One of the reasons I favor things like DEI is that we need to legislate good behavior until we don't need to. The Roberts Court claimed we no longer do. Justice Sotomayor disagreed.
The level of apathy is staggering. Americans have been spoiled and assume it’s either fine or out of their control. I’m afraid we’ll learn the hard way.
First, thank you for the compliment, Charles. Not only do I not have a PhD, I don’t even have a Bachelor’s degree. I could probably scrape together enough college credits to get an Associate’s degree, but I don’t give a fig.
Second, I have, when I was younger suffered from sex discrimination. I worked as an estimater for a local electrician, but I couldn’t sign the bid paperwork because I was a woman. My boss, a man, would sign my work. As a result we won a few jobs that I put together as bid packages.
Later, I worked for a shopping club, and my pay was equal to the men in my department. They had definite DEI policies.
Great piece... incredible research went into this. My crazy father used to tell me I had to act like a lady but think like a man because it was a mans world. So I did. Loud, assertive, bossy, using humor as a door opener. My first boss was a woman, my mentor, who still to this day, I value her opinion on everything.
I will always be sad and disappointed in the human race and the racism they so easily engage in.
Thanks, Susan. It's discouraging to see the huge footprints the horrible people have. Regimes like the one we are experiencing enable bad behavior and allow the footprints to grow. I'm cheered by the size of the resistance, but alarmed at the continued level of apathy.
One of the reasons I favor things like DEI is that we need to legislate good behavior until we don't need to. The Roberts Court claimed we no longer do. Justice Sotomayor disagreed.
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The level of apathy is staggering. Americans have been spoiled and assume it’s either fine or out of their control. I’m afraid we’ll learn the hard way.
BUT NOT IF WE’RE IN THE CANARY ISLANDS! 😂😂 🌴
First, thank you for the compliment, Charles. Not only do I not have a PhD, I don’t even have a Bachelor’s degree. I could probably scrape together enough college credits to get an Associate’s degree, but I don’t give a fig.
Second, I have, when I was younger suffered from sex discrimination. I worked as an estimater for a local electrician, but I couldn’t sign the bid paperwork because I was a woman. My boss, a man, would sign my work. As a result we won a few jobs that I put together as bid packages.
Later, I worked for a shopping club, and my pay was equal to the men in my department. They had definite DEI policies.
I don't have one, either, of course, which is probably why everyone else seems so smart to me! :-)
That's a great story about your DEI experience. My last boss was great that way, even though it was a male.