Author Archives: kirstyagarjacomb

How Power Can Operate in a Workplace

I was reading the Power Threat Meaning Framework published the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology and authored by Lucy Johnstone, Mary Boyle and others the other day. Find it here if you’re interested. I was struck by how the examination of power relationships in the Framework’s perspective of emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled orContinueContinue reading “How Power Can Operate in a Workplace”

Role Models for STEM Careers: Four Ideas to Inspire the Girls in Your Life

We all know that women are underrepresented in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and great efforts are being made to encourage girls to participate. The challenge is even greater when their well-meaning school doesn’t also take a critical eye to the issue of gender and unwittingly undermines said efforts. The other day myContinueContinue reading “Role Models for STEM Careers: Four Ideas to Inspire the Girls in Your Life”

To Take the Minutes or Not To Take the Minutes. Six Strategies to Skirt Around Interfering Gender Biases

Women get asked more than men, and volunteer more, to do undervalued and time consuming tasks at work especially the ‘office housework’. One perhaps easily overlooked example of office housework is taking the meeting minutes. I was asked to take the minutes at a meeting recently where there was no admin resource. Now I acceptedContinueContinue reading “To Take the Minutes or Not To Take the Minutes. Six Strategies to Skirt Around Interfering Gender Biases”