culturama
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March 2017
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We have been in this revolution for decades. First it was just getting entry into this boy’s club... We clawed our way into this revolution at workplace, then we needed parity at pay. Not yet there, we are still fighting for that. We have to have equal treatment. We need to be treated as equals. I hate to be called ‘honey’ and ‘sweetie’ and ‘babe’. That has to change.
The Boss Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi is the current Chairperson and CEO of PepsiCo, which is the second largest food and beverage business in the world. In 2014, she was ranked number 13 on the list of Forbes World’s 100 most powerful women and made it to the Forbes 100 list in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. She was ranked the 82nd most powerful woman on the Fortune list in 2016. She serves on the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and has served as Chairperson of the US-India Business Council. She is a part of American President Trump’s Business Council, a business forum created by Donald Trump.
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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
Learn to lean in Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is an American technology executive, activist and author. She is the CEO of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org (also known as the Lean In Foundation). In June 2012, she became the first woman to serve on Facebook’s board. Sandberg released her first book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, co-authored by Nell Scovell which became not only successful but also a movement of sorts encouraging women to climb up the ladder and break the glass ceiling at the work place.