Women
fromFast Company
6 hours agoWhy work still sucks for women
Women face significant workplace challenges, including the gender pay gap, leadership barriers, harassment, and unpaid domestic work responsibilities.
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Mindfulness
fromSilicon Canals
22 hours agoI turned 34 before I finally understood: no one is on their way to rescue you, no one is tallying your effort, and life doesn't wait for you to feel ready - it just keeps moving without you - Silicon Canals
Success is not guaranteed by effort alone; waiting for recognition can lead to disappointment.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 hours agoMost men who grew up in the 1960s and 70s were taught that admitting you needed help was a character flaw. Finally, we are discovering that openness has its own kind of strength. - Silicon Canals
Men are taught to suppress emotions, leading to loneliness and health issues.
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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
6 hours agoPeople don't stay in friendships they've outgrown because they're weak - they stay because identity is bound up in being the kind of person who doesn't abandon people - Silicon Canals
People stay in outgrown friendships due to their identity being tied to the idea of not leaving, not out of cowardice or weakness.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
13 hours agoI'm in my thirties and I finally understand that the friendships I lost weren't lost because I changed. They were lost because I stopped performing the version of me that made the relationship possible, and nobody told me that was what had been holding it together - Silicon Canals
Friendships often end not due to change, but when one person stops the emotional labor that sustains them.
#leadership
Women in technology
fromEntrepreneur
1 day agoShe Was a Long Shot for the Job That 'Changed the Trajectory' of Her Life - But the Boss Saw This In Her. Today, It Helps Her Leads a Team of 10,000.
Rema Serafi is KPMG's first female Vice Chair of Tax, leading over 10,000 professionals after starting her career 30 years ago.
Women in technology
fromEntrepreneur
1 day agoShe Was a Long Shot for the Job That 'Changed the Trajectory' of Her Life - But the Boss Saw This In Her. Today, It Helps Her Leads a Team of 10,000.
Rema Serafi is KPMG's first female Vice Chair of Tax, leading over 10,000 professionals after starting her career 30 years ago.
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe reason some men never move forward in life has nothing to do with motivation or discipline - it's that they built their entire identity around a version of themselves that stopped being true years ago, and starting over feels like admitting it was all wasted - Silicon Canals
The identity had become so central to who I thought I was that letting it go felt like admitting that entire chapter of my life had been pointless.
Bootstrapping
fromSlate Magazine
3 days agoShe Taught Women How to Orgasm. Decades Later, Her Impact Can Still Be Felt.
Hite learned early on that women walk a sexual tightrope: 'If you had too much sex, you could be shunned like her mother was; if you didn't have enough, you could be deserted like her grandmother.'
Books
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoI grew up in a family where asking for help was the same as admitting weakness - and now I'm 66 and sitting alone with problems I don't know how to solve because I never learned how to say "I'm struggling" - Silicon Canals
Asking for help is often perceived as a weakness, rooted in deep-seated beliefs about masculinity and self-reliance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days agoMy month in the tradwife world: I can't pretend I'm not enjoying myself at all ...'
No one I know wants to go spend their one wild and magical life being a shill for some billionaire tech asshole, says Shannon, a character in Yesteryear, the buzzy new novel about a tradwife influencer by Caro Claire Burke.
Writing
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
23 hours agoPsychology says the art of not caring what others think isn't something you decide to do one day - it's a quiet skill built over years of noticing how much of your life was being shaped by opinions of people who weren't actually paying attention to you in the first place - Silicon Canals
People overestimate how much others notice their actions and appearance, leading to unnecessary self-consciousness.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoI'm 66 and I no longer spend any energy on people who make me feel like I have to earn my place in the room - not because I became cold, but because I finally understood that ease is not a low standard, it is the only standard that matters at this stage, and the people who meet it know who they are and so do I - Silicon Canals
Realizing the exhaustion of constantly proving oneself can lead to a liberating shift in perspective and relationships.
fromFast Company
23 hours agoWhy workplaces need a gendered health approach
For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.
Women
#self-worth
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoI'm 37 and I've already learned the hard way that self-worth takes time, healing isn't linear, and letting go is painful while you're learning to move forward - Silicon Canals
Carrying emotional weight from the past hinders self-worth; true self-worth is built internally, not through external validation.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
5 days agoI'm 37 and I've already learned the hard way that self-worth takes time, healing isn't linear, and letting go is painful while you're learning to move forward - Silicon Canals
Carrying emotional weight from the past hinders self-worth; true self-worth is built internally, not through external validation.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThere's a version of strength that only develops in people who had to figure out the rules of a place nobody explained to them. They don't talk about it because the people who had the rules handed to them wouldn't understand what was hard about it, and the people who also had to figure it out don't need the explanation. - Silicon Canals
Onsighting in climbing parallels navigating social systems, emphasizing perceptual capacity over resilience in understanding unwritten rules.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoYou know you have a high-quality woman in your life if you feel more like yourself around her than you do alone - not because she completes you, but because her presence creates the specific condition under which the version of you that doesn't need to perform anything gets to simply exist - Silicon Canals
Authentic relationships allow individuals to be themselves without the pressure of performance.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says people who make others light up when they first meet them have usually known what it feels like to be overlooked - and instead of becoming bitter about it, they made a quiet decision at some point in their life that no one in their presence would ever feel that invisible again, and that choice is one of the most powerful things a human being can do with their own pain - Silicon Canals
Warm individuals often transform their experiences of invisibility into empathy, making others feel valued and seen.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThere's a specific kind of person who can give the most precise, compassionate advice to everyone around them and then make the worst possible decisions for their own life. The clarity isn't selective. It's that they can only see patterns when they're not standing inside them. - Silicon Canals
People excel at identifying cognitive biases in others but struggle to recognize them in themselves, leading to a phenomenon called the bias blind spot.
fromwww.fourfourtwo.com
4 days agoWho are the female coaches to have taken charge of men's football teams?
Union Berlin has made history after appointing Marie-Louise Eta as their new head coach, becoming the first club in Europe's top five leagues to have a female head coach. Eta takes the job on an interim basis until the end of the season, having previously served as the club's assistant and U19 manager.
Women
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoThe people who became adults without ever learning how to ask for help didn't develop independence. They developed a system where every need gets reclassified as a project they can handle alone, and the reclassification happens so fast now that they genuinely believe they never needed anything in the first place. - Silicon Canals
Resourcefulness can mask deeper emotional needs, leading to automatic self-sufficiency without recognizing the need for help.
Women
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
4 days agoThe new playbook: how AI is reshaping women's sport - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Technology is transforming women's sports through AI, enabling athletes to enhance performance and visibility while bypassing traditional media.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 days agoThe moment I stopped apologizing before every request was the moment I realized I'd been treating my own needs as an imposition on other people's comfort. The apology wasn't politeness. It was a pre-negotiated discount on my own worth so nobody could reject me at full price. - Silicon Canals
Apologizing before requests often diminishes one's own worth and serves as a shield against rejection.
Women in technology
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoWomen over 60 who say they've never been more confident didn't suddenly find self-esteem-they all stopped performing these 7 things that most women are taught to maintain from adolescence onward - Silicon Canals
Women who develop confidence later in life unlearn ingrained behaviors of self-diminishment, particularly excessive apologizing, seeking permission, and minimizing their presence and opinions.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoWomen who basically raised themselves display these 10 strengths in adulthood that came at a price no one ever talks about - Silicon Canals
Women who raised themselves become resilient, resourceful, and self-sufficient but carry emotional costs including difficulty accepting help, hypervigilance, and exhaustion from constant self-reliance.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhy Some Women Lift Others Up and Some Don't
When women actively support one another by sharing information, recommending colleagues for opportunities, and amplifying achievements, they help counterbalance these structural disadvantages. These behaviours reflect what psychologists often describe as prosocial leadership—using one's position or influence to help others succeed.
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