The demand for competent coders is higher than ever, yet women are still underrepresented in the tech industry. Women make up almost half of the workforce in the United States, yet just 24% of workers in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are women. According to Signal magazine, this imbalance stems from several causes,…
How Apps Can Change the World: Women Edition 2016
Yep. Still 2016. I still wake up on some days worried about redundancy in app development. I mean, how many Pomodoro apps do I have to check out before making an informed decision? Pretty sure I tried nine in September of 2015, and that number has more than doubled today. Also: still weathering a sinking…
The Benefits of Hiding Under My Desk
I don’t remember how the subject came up, but the table of women at the conference were talking about stress management and I chimed in with… “Sometimes I just hide under my desk for 10 or 15 minutes and it helps tremendously.” The table of women stopped talking. Turning to look at me, I’d swear…
‘Lead On’ – A Conference for Women
Earlier this month I went to a tech conference in the Bay Area and found myself watching a stream of men on stage talking about how they had been mentored throughout their journey as well as the opportunities that had presented themselves. This admittedly left me a bit dispirited because looking at them, I couldn’t…
Why Women Should Negotiate Their Salaries and Reclaim Their $2 Million Dollars | Kali Williams
Negotiating for Salary as a Woman is an undervalued skill that invariably results in women being judged harshly in just about any industry. Why the double standard should still exist is beyond me, but it’s hardly a surprise that it does. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the wage gap between men and women…
Why Women Apologize Too Much and How We Can Stop | Kali Williams
Young girls are constantly being shown by others that being assertive does not equate with being nice. Their parents, as well as society, models for them that being nice is best. The problem with these messages is that they require them to deny their own truths in order to appease someone else. They grow up…
Sara Blakely~ Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire | Kali Williams
If the founder of the Spanx, Sara Blakely, chose to give up after failing a few times, she wouldn’t have gone on to become the youngest female self-made billionaire in the United States. Her attempt at becoming a stand-up comedian flopped, she failed the LSAT twice, crushing her goal of becoming a lawyer, and when…
Talk Now? Talk Later? Talk Never? | Kali Williams
Personally I don’t like having difficult conversations. In fact I can’t think of anyone I know who ‘likes’ having difficult conversations. But life is full of them and it’s up to you how you choose to deal with that. I was talking to a friend recently who was complaining that for years, two family members…
National Speakers Association 2014 – Event Wrap Up | Kali Williams
Though the mornings were a bit cloudy, every day spent in San Diego is a good day in my book! So I was especially happy to spend 4 days there listening to speakers speak about speaking! Very meta! As soon as I heard about the Caveatt Institute I knew I needed to go early to…
The Hard Science of Retraining Your Brain for Successful and Positive Living | Kali Williams
“I’m not good enough.” “I’m not smart enough.” “I’ll never be as good as her.” Have you ever had the feeling that there is something wrong with you? That your mistakes mean you are incompetent and without value? If so, then it is possible that you have been sabotaging your own happiness by harboring negative…