If a legislator elected by a party or affiliated with a party, can take more risks in some ways. Your constituents often want to see action.
An appointed official like Fauci wants to keep his position across administrations: better to choose discretion and/or wordsmithing.
Other types of public official who is often very active on ethics and compliance are prosecutors and payer. I worked very closely with the AG’s office when in government. We took down a doc running a drug mill similar to this: healthline.com/health-news/pi…
What I started to wonder about tho, was why I was seeing more non-European names in the compliance cases.
I felt our processes were fair.
But I wondered, was there a bias in who gets flagged or noticed?
“..you can ..tell that his decision-making is ethics- & principles-based. Seeking to maintain his influence on a President whose only guide is his impulsive self-interest, Dr. Fauci is the iconic principled pragmatist of our time”
If you want to understand a woman, look at her mother - at least true of me
My mom? As a new immigrant to America, when she encountered an unfair Eurocentric rule from her English Lit grad program? She wrote a paper & got the rule changed
Smart
Owned her power
Effective
Ethical
My mom and I are the same in core values but opposite externally. She uses maybe 1/100th of the words that I do and is intensely private. I am out climbing literal mountains while she prefers to stay in and read books and my dad’s #engineering journals.
My mom is an introvert who thinks 10x before speaking w/ surgical precision, educated by German nuns & British educational system
We are Urdu-speaking
Have ~ quarter million followers on #LinkedIn & use that space to speak truth to power. Use the power of my voice including on sexual harassment vs women.
In one #healthcare setting, the board hired marketers to cyberstalk employees. Creepy. #MedTwitter
When will we start to listen to the students paying substantial tuition?
Why do students have a superior understanding of #ethics and #traumainformed#education as compared to administrators who earn millions between salary & consulting gigs?
Keep in mind the phrase “shattering” the glass ceiling is a violent phrase associated with riots or “anti-social” activities. #womeninleadership conferences or books don’t prepare you for reality of how perceived/treated when “smashing” the patriarchy, especially as a WOC.
There are two ways past the barrier: 1-align with/serve patriarchy and have the door opened.
= mere optics of change while perpetuating status quo & structural inequity
Or
2-shatter it the glass ceiling. The latter will cause you to be a threat to the system & leadership
On rare occasions, the person opening the door past the barrier is truly seeking progress at scale rather than tokenizing you.
More often than not, your role when on the other side is to be token and sign off on perpetuation of inequity while providing the right look/optics.
“..treated like Cassandra where we get disregarded or sidelined, but our concerns about safety have turned out to be true,” Nehal, the Boston-based pediatrician, added. “There’s no joy in being right. I’d rather see good results that put patient safety first.”
People recommend a variety of strategies for (cyber)stalkers
Personally my fave: overload them with SO MUCH data their systems break down & THEY have a break down 😈
Maybe stop stalking me so your brain won’t have to try to follow mine
cuz, I promise you: you can’t keep up 🏃🏾♀️
Last semester, way I did group work: slow down by 70-80%
(apart from rare times w/ ppl w/ matched pace & skill)
Based on 360 eval feedback to:
slow down so others can keep up
&
lower my standards
Took 3x course load
did 2-3 Zoom at once
& still got all As (except one B+)
Thought experiment:
If I were a cis straight white man with my abilities, would I still be told to lower my standards?
If I were not advocating for system change & equity but if as a WOC I aligned with incentives of patriarchy, would my hard work translate to more rewards?