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Chapter 3
Why More Women Don't Lead
and Innovate
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
Chapter Outline
Cultural Career Perception Issues
37
Lack of Role Models
and Mentors
Organizational Career
Perception Issues
52
38
Mentoring Up Close
and Personal
Individual Career Perception
Issues
53
41
Networking
57
Because We Don't Believe
We Can
Taking Things Personally
58
42
Conclusion
59
Impact on Family Life
44
Actions for the Reader
60
Not Recognizing our Strengths
46
Chapter Resources
60
Perception of Limited
Opportunity or Failure to
Recognize Opportunities
50
The objective of this topic is to enlighten, empower, and encourage you to
achieve your goals no matter what age or stage you currently find yourself in
from a career or personal perspective. The topics thus far have been designed
to enlighten you to the need and call to us to lead. The focus of this chapter
is to help us understand factors that have impeded the progress of women
for generations and how to overcome these issues in your career. Specifi-
cally, the goal is to gain an understanding of the common factors that women
face when seeking leadership opportunities, particularly in male-dominated
careers such as STEM fields, and understand how you can mitigate the impact
of these factors.
Given the number of qualified women in STEM professions and recognizing
the tremendous opportunities for leadership, why don't more of us lead? Many
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