Tag: women in construction
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Equal Pay! Equal Pay!
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…
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Sweet and Salty
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…
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Perfection, Part II
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…
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Perfection, Part I
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…
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Are You Sure About What You Didn’t Say?
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…
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Confidence of a Higher Order
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…
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No Apologies
#notsorry We’ve been a bit absent here at Underpinnings lately, and I was going to lead off this post by apologizing. I’m so sorry that I am overloaded with work, that I’m in charge of various parts of three separate charity fundraisers in three months, that I’m trying to run a group of 25 community…
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Shades of Gray
We Can Do It…Even Better Now If you follow our little blog and read the comments from our readers, you might have seen a rather pointed comment on our introduction of our contest winner, Lori Simpson, back in December. After we listed all of Lori’s lengthy accomplishments, I suggested that this was all very impressive…
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Civil Wars
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…