Mentors & Allies: How to be Machiavellian Without Being a Machiavellianne

Gender discrimination is real. The gendered wage gap is real. The mommy tax is real.

It's bad for straight white women.

It's much worse for women with brown and black skin; for lesbians and queer, bi, and trans women; for women whose first langauge is not English; for women who are entering professions as the first in their families or social circles and don’t have allies to support them.

So let's take a lesson from Machiavelli: look the monster in the face, and determine our best course of action given the lay of the land. Let's strategize. Not to be brutal, but to lift each other up. 

To set the groundwork for this I take a peek into Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith. In particular I share the four archetypes of nasty female colleagues she identifies, and suggest actionable strategies you can practice this week to protect yourself, and the women around you, by being a mentor and an ally -- especially for women who inhabit less privileged positions than you do.

Then join us for the rest of the month as my guests discuss supervising and mentoring from intersectional and intergenerational perspectives. 

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