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Author: Peggy Hagerty Duffy

  • Equal Pay! Equal Pay!

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    A Victory for All Did you watch?  Did you cheer?  Did you cry every time they showed a commercial with a young girl with a hopeful expression? I realize that not all of our Underpinnings community may have been interested in the recent victory by the United States team in the FIFA World Cup, but…

  • Being Small

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    Taking Charge of Your Presence   During the writing of this post, in which we decried The Spread, I happened to be talking to a member of the Underpinnings community.  When I mentioned the subject of the post, she said, “I would never say anything if a guy did this.  I always just try to…

  • Field Dressing

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    De-Coding Dress Code   I was having a conversation the other day with another woman in the geotechnical field.  I mentioned a dynamic woman whom I admire in our industry, and the other woman looked apprehensive and said, “Yes, she’s good, but she wears such tight clothes to meetings.”  To her credit, before I could…

  • Sweet and Salty

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    For All Our Galentines This is a week of treats, and we all like something salty and sweet, don’t we?  So here is our offering to you for your morning or afternoon snack – or your midnight munchie.  Something salty and something sweet. Salty: The Spread This morning was the fourth time in the past…

  • When You Get Squashed

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    Happy 2019!  Is it fabulous so far?  Don’t let the weather color your answer – it is January, after all, and January must be true to itself.  As a landscaper friend of mine once told me, “How do you expect all those beautiful things to emerge in the spring if they don’t die back in…

  • No, That Doesn’t Make Sense

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    Just Stop We are all in agreement that we, as women, need to stop apologizing, right?  We covered the subject here, and we aren’t the only ones who believe that women undermine ourselves when we constantly apologize as a conversational tool. Now that we have that out of the way….Okay, we probably don’t.  It doesn’t…

  • Perfection, Part II

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    Are These Our Only Two Choices? No doubt you have taken part in at least one discussion, if not endless discourse, on the cultural rift we have today between our Millennial generation and the rest of the world in the working environment.  Trust me when I say I understand why this division exists, because I…

  • Perfection, Part I

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    I Just Want It To Be Perfect When I was young I used to haul around a sketch pad with me everywhere.  I spent hours and hours drawing…dresses.  I was fascinated by fabric and design and endlessly intrigued by art that one can wear.  As I grew older, I found out that my passion for…

  • Are You Sure About What You Didn’t Say?

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    90% Ready for Change, 10% Irritated By Guest Contributor Lori Simpson, (who we’re 90% sure is CGG (Chief Geotechnical Genius) at Langan) On a recent conference call my headset microphone wasn’t working and I couldn’t speak. Many people on the call didn’t notice the difference, well, because how often do women speak up on conference…

  • Confidence of a Higher Order

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    Yes, I’m Supposed to Be Here Confidence is a subject we have covered extensively on this forum.  It should not be a surprise to anyone currently engaged in our dialogue about women’s issues in a male-dominated workplace that a lack of confidence runs rampant through our ranks.  Yes, there are women who blaze a trail…