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5 STEM Leadership Lessons from the Barbie Movie

5 STEM Leadership Lessons from the Barbie Movie

What STEM leadership lessons can we learn from the Barbie? Learn 5 insights you can apply immediately on your career journey, including the power of integrating emotion and logic, challenging norms, avoiding conformity, embracing imperfection, and finding insights in unexpected places.

Performance Reviews for Women in STEM: How to Prepare for Career Growth

Performance Reviews for Women in STEM: How to Prepare for Career Growth

Are you ready for your next performance review? Learn a 4-step method to effectively prepare. Know your goals, align them strategically, quantify value, and make confident asks to succeed.

5 Focus Areas for Companies to Retain Women in STEM

5 Focus Areas for Companies to Retain Women in STEM

Where should organizations focus their strategic efforts to retain women in STEM? Learn the 5 patterns that emerged from the She Leads STEM 100 Leaders project when current and aspiring leaders were asked: “What have your current or previous organizations done to support and keep you?”

Top 10 Challenges Faced by Women Leaders in STEM

Top 10 Challenges Faced by Women Leaders in STEM

Why aren’t there more women leaders? What are the top challenges women face in their rise to leadership? This blog summarizes the top ten challenges taken from the more than 100 case study interviews conducted of emerging and current women and non-binary STEM leaders and male allies.

Should I quit my job? 6 questions to help you decide

Should I quit my job? 6 questions to help you decide

The great resignation is here, and a lot of engineers and technical professionals are asking: should I quit my job right now? Learn 6 questions to ask yourself to determine if you should stay in your current role or quit right now, including insights into the ideal time to leave a job (see #4) if you want to get the biggest salary bump.

3 strategies to stop feeling like a fraud at work

3 strategies to stop feeling like a fraud at work

Almost 80% of women in engineering and technology have reported feeling like a fraud at work. It’s so common that it’s known as imposter syndrome, and it’s a result of a work environment that tells you in subtle and sometimes blatant ways that you don’t belong. Learn 3 immediately applicable strategies to stop feeling like a fraud or imposter at work.

Celebrating Black History Month: 8 Inspiring Black Women Engineers & Scientists

Celebrating Black History Month: 8 Inspiring Black Women Engineers & Scientists

February is Black History Month and also includes Engineers Week. Here are 8 inspiring Black women engineers and scientists, without whom we would not be enjoying much of the technological innovations we take for granted today.

How to Stop Getting Interrupted in Meetings

How to Stop Getting Interrupted in Meetings

Half of professional women report being interrupted or spoken over at work frequently. Here’s how to harness your inner executive and put a stop to the professional reputation drain that occurs every time you are interrupted.

5 Ways To Manage Stress and Anxiety While Working From Home

5 Ways To Manage Stress and Anxiety While Working From Home

You feel fortunate to be able to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. Yet, your levels of stress and anxiety are high, and you might be having trouble focusing. That’s entirely natural. Here’s what you can do about it.

Four Traits Successful Technical Women Share

Four Traits Successful Technical Women Share

Success leaves clues. Find enough clues, and you can be on your way to your dream job much more quickly than trying to figure it out on your own! In our interviews for the She Engineers 2019 Virtual Summit, we noticed four success traits common to all of our inspirational women interviewees. We’ve wrapped them up for you in this blog!