Many of Baton Rouge’s most successful businesswomen have one thing in common: a pack of other successful women behind them. In order to land the best positions, local female professionals acknowledge a need to maintain both wide networks of business contacts and close-knit inner circles of professional female confidantes, a challenge known as “dual networking”
Did you know nearly half of working women have cried on the clock? And no, we’re not sexist for addressing this in a women’s newsletter. Women are actually biologically hardwired to cry more often than men, according to Forbes, because they have six times the amount of prolactin, a hormone related to crying, as men.
Ten years ago, when Cheri Schlegel was 30 years old, she became a run plant engineer at Dow Chemical, overseeing day-to-day operations at the Plaquemine plant. As she started working nights to learn the plant’s technology and systems, Schlegel recalls her role being met with some resistance from an older male colleague. “I had a
Nowadays, it’s all about that hustle and grind. But grind too hard and you risk chipping away at your sanity through burnout. With Slack, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, email, texting, GroupMe and a plethora of other portals, workers are more connected than ever and it can be difficult to create boundaries and separate your work
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Breaking into circles dominated by men—and then rising to the top—is something Shonta Greenwood can say she’s done not once, but twice. In the early 2000s, after her college basketball career ended, Greenwood tried her hand at a new sport, one that she, like most women, had never played—football. With speed as her biggest strength,
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