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Women in Business: The Biases we didn't even know we had

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BBC News Mundo in its  youtube channel  published this amazing video that is very revealing. The link to the complete video is below, but here I reproduce the riddle that the video contains: "A father and a son are traveling in their car. They have a very serious accident, the father dies, and the son is taken to a hospital because he requires complex emergency surgery. They call a medical eminence, but when looking at the patient upon arrival it becomes clear: 'I can´t operate him, he's my son.' How is this possible?" (answer is in text below or in the video) (The video is in spanish but it is very easy to include English subtitles).  As a Woman in Business you know there's always something around you, sometimes it's very subtle, you can't exactly put your finger on it. There's this "special" way you're treated that you just know is not right. As an ambitious working woman, I feel these biases that live all a...
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Women In Business: 3 ways to keep your game up at work

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As a Woman in Business who loves to be successful and strong, you know that there are all kinds of challenges for women to be taken seriously. As a manager in a multinational company who loves finance and a mother of 2 girls who loves to play and enjoy with my family, I found these two articles with useful insights that help us understand how we can get ahead of the game and keep on thriving. Hira Ali wrote a great article on Forbes for Ellevate Network  called "Why Women Are Natural born leaders" . It talks about women’s natural talents for leadership and how to use them in our favor. The article explains how women are more collaborative and empathetic. These are characteristics of ideal leaders today, however; these traits taken to the extreme can also lead to a lack of confidence. http://bit.ly/2LrDEpK Nicole Lipkin wrote another Forbes article called "The Most Common Communication Mistakes Women Make" on how women include their feelin...
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