Women are creative leaders. This creativity has allowed women to look outside the box, overcome a wide gender gap, and enjoy immense success. Still, there is a long road ahead for women seeking to close the gender gap entirely.
"Like any search engine, LinkedIn has an algorithm," says Cantin."Optimizing your profile for the algorithm leads to more page views, targeted connections, and opportunities. If you are wondering how to start, begin with keywords. Find the most popular keywords related to your industry and include variations of those keywords throughout your entire profile. Don't forget to use these words in your job descriptions, title, about section, and headline.
Harman feels your confidence will inevitably grow as you determine your own fashion sense and style. The more confident women there are in the workplace, the more the gender gap will close. "These are immediate and tangible signals to others about how you feel about yourself. Beyond that, they have been shown to make a difference in how someone feels about themselves. Bottom line, people feel more confident when they know they look nice."When discussing the gender gap, it is impossible to ignore the gender wage gap. Pew Research Centerreports that the gap has remained steady over the past 15 years, as women earn 84% of what men in similar roles are paid.
"In my previous corporate roles, I often saw amazing women work twice as hard as their male counterparts, only to be"rewarded" with half the accolades and a lower salary to boot," says."They accepted this because they didn't have the courage or didn't know how to navigate and negotiate their careers proactively."
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