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Self-Promotion Does Not Come Easily To Women
Self-promotion means gaining the interest and attention of others and, over time, earning their respect and trust. Promoting yourself is absolutely essential if you want to get noticed and move ahead. Even if you are a great employee and are consistently achieving or exceeding your goals, you won’t move ahead unless others notice your accomplishments.
But for many women, self-promotion doesn’t come easily.
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Taking a Picture of a Woman’s Legs Without Her Permission Is Not Sexual Harassment
South Korea’s top court ruled that a man who photographed the legs of a woman wearing a miniskirt without her knowledge was not committing sexual harassment. The man used his cell phone’s camera to take the picture of the woman as she sat in front of him, wearing a miniskirt, on the underground.
Interestingly, news reports have made it a point to tell us that the woman was in her twenties. Perhaps so that we know it was worthwhile to take that picture.
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Women in Advertising
Image credit: Title Nine
Yesterday I saw two very different ways of presenting women in advertising. One was encouraging and uplifting. The other made me feel uncomfortable and upset.
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Girls Rock! Empowering Our Daughters
When looking for summer camps or after-school activities for your daughters, consider some of the girl-empowering options out there. Although engaging young girls in sports in general gives an important boost to their self-esteem, there are a few programs that specifically aim at making girls feel good about themselves. A few that I like:
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Today is International Women’s Day
Today, I am thankful to all the brave women who fought so hard over the years to give women basic human and civil rights. Today I am amazed to think that national women’s suffrage in the United States did not exist until 1920; that abortion was only legalized in 1973; and that women had to fight hard to gradually obtain the rights to higher education, to own property and to initiate divorce proceedings.
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“Women Stab Each Other in the Back”. Really?
“It’s better to have a male confidant at work, since you have someone you can really talk to who’s not going to stab you in the back like a woman might do”. BlogHer.
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Victoria’s Secret Too Sexy for Customers?
Victoria’s Secret’s change of focus from ultra-feminine into ultra-sexy seems to have backfired. Sales are down. Loyal customers have given up on the brand, feeling it’s overly sexy and even trashy, and young customers are not buying enough to compensate for the departure of the older ones.
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