Countless studies on women in leadership have discussed how women can sabotage each other when the work environment is fraught with patriarchal notions of what a successful business should look like. What are some of the pitfalls and traps we fall into that hinder our collaborative relationships? How do we avoid the sabotaging traps of competition in order to bring our full selves to the workplace? This talk discusses ways in which women can support and mentor each other in our own authentic, empowering ways to not only change the daily experiences of other women, but to transform the workplace environment as we go. How do we come together across difference, steeped in the knowledge and understanding of our cultural history to come together in solidarity? How has the feminist movement’s stratification endangered our strength and solidarity and how do we begin to repair it? First working on our self-talk and then educating ourselves to move toward solidarity and liberation.
Joy Wiggins, Ph.D., received her doctorate from The Ohio State University in multicultural education. She works in the Elementary Education department at Western Washington University. She is the director of Global Peaceful Paths, a consulting company that focuses on equity, inclusion and social justice in education. Her current work focuses on actively evaluating the way we are socially constructed and how that plays into our daily intercultural communicative experiences. Her goal is to facilitate transformative learning opportunities infused with empathy, education and liberation for all. She has presented her research through invited, keynote and peer-reviewed sessions at the American Educational Research Association, American Educational Studies Association, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry among many others and she has published in several educational journals on her work around social justice in education.
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