Women Leaders Must Support Each Other - Transforming Your STEM Career Through Leadership and Innovation - page 141

Chapter 7

Women Leaders Must Support
Each Other

This is my wish for Women's History Month: That we not just celebrate how far we've
come, but realize that we did it together , and that we need to stick together and continue
to bust through that ridiculously cliché glass ceiling.

Katie Sluiter

Chapter Outline
Why Does It Matter? 144 Weave a Female

Opportunity Web

No More Cheerleader
Mentality

155

145 Seek the Support of Other

Women We're on the Same Team 147 155

Do You “Want” to Join
the Team?

Recognize That Your
Leadership Role Can
Impact Other Women

148

Being on the Team 150 156

Be a Mentor 150 Create Opportunities for

Other Women Be a Rainmaker 151 157

Uncover and Share
Information

Establish a Diverse Circle
of Women Supporters 152 159

Keep Quiet - Don't Talk
About Other Women!

Test your Commitment to
the Team! 153 159

Unite with All Women
at All Times

Summary 160

153 Chapter Resources 162

Make Team-Related
Choices

154

I remember having an exciting sense of “woman power” when Carleton S.
(Carly) Fiorina was named president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-
Packard Company in 1999. As an engineering graduate from the University of
Oklahoma, I had seen many of my classmates seek and secure careers with this
amazing company, and the fact that a woman was now in charge thrilled me and