8 Self-Empowering Pieces of Career Advice for Corporate Working Women
#4 — You deserve a seat at the table
After a decade of corporate work experience, I’ve been around the block enough times to have earned my stripes.
I’ve worked on teams where I was the only girl — or should I say the only woman? Sometimes I have to decide whether to “be one of the boys” to better get along with them or to decidedly not be one of the boys and draw a very clear line in the sand about inappropriate behavior.
I’ve worked on an all-female team lead by a male manager. Despite the ill-suited stereotype of catfights, there was no drama. Rather, we stood united and squarely challenged a colleague who “jokingly” told our manager, “All women on your team? That must be a handful.”
I’ve worked with and for some brilliant female managers who were champions for equality. These moments in my career felt like utopia. But I have also had a senior female coworker attempt to steal my work and gun for my job during a company reorg. Not such a utopia.
From the rollercoaster of a career that I’ve led, here are eight pieces of self-empowering career advice I’d like to share with my fellow women who have chosen the corporate working life.
