From the course: Becoming a Male Ally at Work

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Give proper credit

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From the course: Becoming a Male Ally at Work

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Give proper credit

- In the earlier part of the Obama administration most of the senior campaign staff who went on to serve in the White House happened to be men. Women on staff felt they needed to fight their way to key decision-making meetings and even once there, their ideas were often only picked up on after they were restated by men. When their ideas were reiterated by a male colleague the idea gained traction, but here's the rub. The idea was also accredited to the guy who restated it. For many women in the workplace, this phenomenon is unfortunately familiar. A woman offers an idea in a meeting, but nobody acknowledges it until a man later says the same thing. So when this story from White House staffers was shared in an article for The Washington Post years later it went viral almost immediately. Countless women identified themselves as struggling with the same issue. Getting credit for their own ideas was difficult to pull off. Especially without coming across as self-congratulatory or seeming…

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