How To Explain Women Empowerment Logo To Your Boss
Chara Fiebig
Girlboss feminism suggests that as long as you are maximizing your economic efficiency and profit, you are free from the patriarchal apprehensions you have as a woman. It commercializes feminism into something that you can only be a part of if you are achieving financial success. This view of women as another mere tool of capitalism is dehumanizing, and fundamentally fails to address the larger questions of dismantling unequal power structures that feminism entails.
It is important that we renounce from this learned narrative of productivity within girlboss feminism, and reconfigure our perception of productivity as being any means of self-care. Otherwise, the current traits of girlboss feminism will continue to grow as the epitome of the modern-day feminist disrupting mainstream media with inaccurate perceptions of productivity.
Can you explain what you and other project engineering managers at Kerry do?
Sufana: As project engineers, we are not necessarily in the forefront of making food and beverage ingredients and products, but we work behind the scenes to put in place the systems that make the product. We partner with our internal customers to design and implement processes that drive efficiency, safety and sustainability in manufacturing.
Our job is to look at things holistically. There are a lot of moving parts and I'm there to listen and understand all points of view and figure out the best way to get to the end goal. What does the design of the project look like? Does the site have the infrastructure we need? What does it look from operations and maintenances perspective? Are there any safety opportunities? And sustainability? It's being the champion and driver for things and making sure that you capture the muti-functional points of view.
Sufana: Statistically, females make up just 9% of the mechanical engineering workforce and 18% of chemical engineering, according to the Society of Women Engineers. When I graduated and started my job at a facility location, I was scared of what I was getting myself into because I was the only female engineer at the site. So, I am a big proponent of driving girls to get into these fields. I think it is important to show them there are people who look like them in the industry and that they, too, can be successful at it.
Sufana: Be passionate about what you do. If you love what you do, everything comes more easily. But you're not going to know that right off the bat, so don't be afraid to try different things. Don't be afraid to get out of your comfort zone. That will teach you what you are good at and what you're not good at. Kerry is a company that allows you to explore and try something different, so have a conversation with your boss or mentor about the different paths you might want to take.
Sometimes people don't know how they contribute to the overall sustainability picture, so we talk with different teams and help them understand how they fit in. For example, our facilities use a lot of steam and water in our process, so something as small as the maintenance team fixing a leak is extremely important! We all must do our part, small or big, to drive our sustainability goals.
In fifth-century Athens, the study of rhetoric developed alongside democracy and played a central role in the development of Western politics and education. Today, it continues to be taught at universities to train future lawyers, teachers, creative writers, politicians, marketers and effective communicators of all kinds. But even beyond the podium or the courtroom, rhetoric is something we both use and consume every day.
Taking the holistic context of a situation into account is essential to create a message that resonates. For example, the way you explain a concept to your boss will be different than how you explain that same concept to your younger nephew.
In 350 B.C., Aristotle wrote On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse, where he outlined the three rhetorical appeals that can be used to shape your words into an effective message. Each appeal engages with a different aspect of the human mind. A single message can use all three appeals, or just one or two, depending on the rhetorical situation.
Rhetoric is used in every field of employment, from communicating professionally with coworkers and customers to writing reports. But aside from specific job titles, below are a few examples of situations where anyone can use rhetoric to achieve a goal.
Knowing how rhetoric works can keep someone from using it against you and allow you to fall under the spell of persuasion. On the other hand, wielding rhetorical appeals effectively can help you convince your friends or loved ones from doing something that might hurt them.
Welcome back to season four of the women on the move podcast. I'm your host, Sam Safferstein women on the move is a global initiative at JP Morgan. Chase designed to help women grow their businesses, improve their financial health and build their careers. This season, we're taking you inside JP Morgan, Chase's annual women's leadership conference, where we addressed critical issues, affecting women, our diverse speakers, shared leadership lessons and career tips, and taught us how to take care of our wellbeing. Overall. They had one thing in common optimism about the future and unwavering positivity. It's a fascinating season. You won't want to miss this year. For the first time we decided to bring in a host for our leadership event. When we started thinking of the perfect woman for the job, Allie love immediately came to mind. Allie does it all. She's a wellness guru, Peloton instructor, host and entrepreneur, and women's leadership day. She took us through her three M's matter mind and meaning to help our audience stay grounded and present throughout the event. Allie graciously sat down with me to discuss her journey, to becoming a leader at Peloton and the vision she has for herself and her company loves squad.
So Allie, you're a Peloton instructor, the host of the Brooklyn nets, a health coach and the founder and CEO of love squad. So that is a lot of things that you juggle and do, which is very impressive. And it sounds very exhausting to me, but I'm really, I just want to, I love to start out and ask you, what does a typical week look like for you and how do you balance all of those responsibilities?
Uh, that's interesting Sam, because typical is not something that I subscribe to. I don't think that there is a typical weekend sincerity. And the reason is because I look at my life like a buffet where I'm not someone who wants to order, uh, already curated a plate of food off of a menu. I'd like to Alec Hardin. I like to switch it up. And that's something that I knew since I was a young kid, is I like to do multiple things and I like to do it differently every day. There's an excitement and a thrill, some adventure and spontaneity and waking up fresh on a day and saying, Hey, what's on my calendar. What's on my agenda. What's on my to do. And so I think when I look at my career, I pride myself on it. Not being typical, not necessarily a vertical career, there's nothing wrong with a vertical career. I definitely all my bosses out there that have vertical careers, you, but in terms of something that I know where I find joy and I find excitement is specifically around the concept of the slash generation of wearing multiple hats and doing different things throughout my weeks.
So I love that you take a real portfolio approach almost to a career with all these different things. And as you said, it sounded like you always wanted to have that for yourself growing up. And even when you were younger thinking about your career. Absolutely.
I think we talk about diversifying our portfolio. I often talk about diversifying our training program, but it's specifically, I guess, in this case, it's diversifying your career choices or career options or even career titles. And I think, yeah, at a young age, I knew that there was a lot in this world. And I guess growing up in Miami, Florida, I didn't necessarily have the opportunity to travel with my family. We were a middle class family, very blue collar. We hustled my mom and dad and made it happen, but I got to see it all on TV. And I said, you know what, if there's a world out there, I want to live it. And so I've always been adventurous inside and out. And in terms of not only being able to travel the world as an adult at forging opportunities, but also when it comes to my career, I know we get so caught up in what's my life purpose.
Or like, what's that one job I need to get that one job I've been in that position multiple times. And what I realized and I find solace in is that it might not be that one thing, that one person at one job, that one situation, it can be multiple. And so this concept of moving away from the one, the one and only, and just living a little bit more has been a part of me. I think it comes from my dad a little bit. He's like the hippie of the family. And I feel like he's given me that like, yeah, when it comes to life, you work hard. Don't overly stress about it. There's a lot out there.
That's such a freedom in a way to give yourself permission, to do a lot of things and not find the one right thing. So what would you tell, especially younger women who are thinking about starting out and a lot of people think I must find that one perfect job, or I'm going to have to aspire only to one thing. What would you say to them just given what you've built for yourself and what you see as possible?
I think I could probably use Sheryl Sandberg's words better than I could articulate it. Is that a career as a jungle gym? So there's never a straight line. There's never usually a destination. It's a quote, Kim Scott. There are times in our lives where we're superstars and then we're rocks are superstars. Or when we're in that jungle gym and we're swinging baby, we want more, we want to do more. We want to experience more than there are moments in our career and our lives, where we're rockstars, where we just want to be here, do well and stay in this one place. And so understanding that those moments in our lives are interchangeable. I think when I think about the listeners out there and in particular, a young woman or non-binary, or non-gender conforming person, who's listening and saying, yeah, I just kind of want that one career.
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