“Things are not getting worse, they are getting uncovered. We must hold each other tight and continue to pull back the veil.” adrienne maree brown Contact Info: Site Michelle@michellemorkert.com Objectives: Get curious about what’s possible and change the world. Unit 1: Pulling Back the Veil Readings: Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us by Roxane Gay …
In this blog, we talk regularly about the way gender roles operate in the world and especially in the United States. We get curious about what’s going on and we wonder about the causal impacts. We engage with a wide range of folks who hold diverse opinions about all sorts of topics. The current COVID-19 …
I walked into my home work space today and found my 12 year old cat, Sophie, sitting on the keyboard of my laptop. She saw me walk into the room. She watched me watch her. She met my eyes and stared right back at me calmly. Sophie was not going to budge. She did …
A professional who I respect shared with me the other day that she fakes it at work because she feels the need to “reassure” others. This is a smart, prolific, compassionate human. And, she does care about lots of people and lots of things. She leads a full life that includes family, career, friends, community engagement, …
There is no shortage of qualified women for leadership roles across diverse professional fields. In fact, women earn the majority of university degrees with the exception of professional degrees, and they contribute to the workforce in greater numbers than in previous generations. The question still remains, why are women largely absent from equal representation in …
Slavenka Drakulic wrote about life under socialism and the independence of Croatia in her 1992 text, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed. I read this text while waiting at the Zagreb Airport for my spouse to arrive for a visit in 2014. That day I underlined words that I searched for again today, five years …
I’ve got a crazy idea. . . I’m not sure this is realistic, but. . . What if. . . I’ve always wanted to. . . Don’t you cherish conversations about aspirational ideas with special people who respond positively and authentically? I love that idea! What if…? Of course you could do that! Emilie …
Change starts with noticing what’s happening and then wondering what’s possible. Think of any “successful” civil rights movement around the world. Thinking might have started out as a reaction against injustice shifted somewhere along the way to wondering, “what’s next?” “What’s possible?” The U.S. suffrage movement experimented with different approaches to female suffrage – state by state …
According the Harvard Business Review, this is how women described gender discrimination in the workplace – it’s like “something in the water.” It’s rarely overt, but it’s there. The examples could be considered inconsequential yet nagging. However, add up those examples (ok, dear?) and one generates a profile of second-generation gender bias. HBR defines second-generation …
