I want to preface everything I’m about to say with this: I work at an organization, with a male CEO and male superiors and coworkers who are supportive of the women who work beside them, myself included. We are empowered to do our best.
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Because I love a good theme day/week/month, I kicked off Women’s History Month with a lecture at the Hennepin History Museum. Professor Bill Green (maybe I also love nepotism) explored the life of Nellie Francis, an African American suffragist from Minnesota who fought for the rights of many marginalized communities.
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Thanks to a staggering voter turnout and a record-breaking number of women on the ballot, the United States political scene is a boys’ club no more. Notable wins include Ayanna Pressley, the first black congresswoman elected from Massachusetts; Marsha Blackburn, the first woman senator from Tennessee; Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar, the first Latinx congresswomen elected from Texas; Rashida Tlaib, the first Muslim woman elected to Congress; and Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland, the first Native American women elected to Congress.
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“Sorry, just, I feel, should, maybe…” The list of words women have been instructed to remove from their vocabulary grows by the day. There are even tools to help us keep track of all the things we shouldn’t be saying in our professional exchanges. All these little words are essentially apologies we make for being women in the workforce.
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Celebrated since the early 1900s, International Women’s Day commemorates not only the fight for gender equality but the women who pioneered that fight. Women who used their influence, energies and voices to make life better for others. Women who took risks not only for their own gain but because they knew the status quo was unacceptable.
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In the world of lean in, shatter ceilings, have it all, do it all, it can be terribly easy to become consumed. Zeroing in on your career and your career alone. We have to work harder and longer. We have to focus. Energy spent elsewhere is wasted.
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For some time now, the term mansplaining has helped us identify the condescending way in which an individual—most often male—explains a topic to another individual—typically a woman—on which she is already an expert. Now, 2017 has given us “hepeating.” A term to describe the level of clout given to a man presenting an idea over a woman who presented the same idea earlier.
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