Underpinnings Blog

Category: Equality

  • No More Khakis

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    Peggy Hagerty Duffy
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    What’s on Your List? Last month I was on a jobsite, talking to a guy about the sad fact that most TV shows and movies had stopped production because of the pandemic.  We reminisced about some of the big movies that were released last year, and then he said it. “I was so disappointed in…

  • A Head Start

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    Anger We Know, Pain We Don’t A few years ago, a friend talked me into online dating.  I successfully had resisted getting sucked into this activity for a long time, not because I disapprove or think it doesn’t work, but because it is in direct opposition to what I need and want from a relationship. …

  • Because You Can

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    We Need a Little Happy Oh. My. Heavens.  Is the world trying to put us in a bad mood?  Have you had a few dark weeks lately?  Apparently the coronavirus is going to kill us all, and even if it doesn’t the news media is going to scare us into canceling all events and not…

  • Beyond an Epidemic

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    Good Enough A few weeks ago, I came across this blog post (click to follow the link) and my response was a resounding “Yes!”  Yes to the idea that we should be happy with accomplishments first for ourselves.  Yes to less looking to others for affirmation.  In my mind, the post was all about stopping ourselves…

  • Special Gifts

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    Inspiration is a Great Gift Idea I count the last part of 2019 as a time in which we received a bounty of gifts to renew our hope in making the workplace equal for men and women.  I’m not talking about anything related to #MeToo or TimesUp.  These gifts were outstanding women setting fabulous examples…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Civil Wars

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    The Casualties Are Higher When It’s Personal It didn’t take the #metoo movement for most of us to be familiar with being undervalued or disrespected or ignored at work or in school.  Even our youngest millennials who work in progressive companies with open-minded colleagues have run into ugliness at some point.  The trouble may have…

  • Time’s Up

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    Part I – Them The recent Harvey Weinstein revelations, #metoo movement, and Time’s Up campaign have had a number of consequences, most of them quite fabulous.  Let’s start by saying that I have ZERO problem with the fact that a bunch of actresses finally brought attention to a problem a lot of us have faced…

  • How Did You Get Here?

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    Diluting Workforce Quality for the Better…Or Not How did you get where you are?  No, I’m not referring to your route to work this morning or whether you took a plane or a train to get to the conference you’re attending or how you managed to sneak out of the office to go shoe shopping.…