Empowering other women around you!
As women, we have a difficult and massive task in business and in life: To be able to find the right balance in our family life and career/business, and on top of everything - be happy.
To be successful in both, is hard work and we need to find as much support as we can - not only from our family and friends but from the whole community.
Have you heard the saying “it takes a village to raise a child”? To be able to empower women around the world we need to think of it like in a village, taking small steps to make a revolution in our neighborhoods and help raise the girls of the next generation.
My 10 personal tips to help
1. Be Yourself Remember: YOU are the most important woman in your life. Recognize your qualities and strengths and inspire other women by sharing your opinion, collaborating and encouraging.
2. Praise Praising and cherishing other women abilities is an amazing way of expressing what you really mean when you say that she is fabulous. Praise is a one of the most empowering way to remind people of their qualities and value in the society.
3. Take Initiative in a Women Group We’ve seen more and more only- women groups as a safe place where we can develop a conversation about female power and to not be evaluated from a male point of view. Find one nearby you and get involved!
4. Become a Mentor Share your knowledge and guide people through your experience. Look for projects, organizations or companies where mentoring is accessible and sign it up.
5. Engage with Clever Women. Don’ t be afraid! Thinking that you are not good enough is not real. Get around with women that you think are smarter than you. Why? To learn from their experience. Ask questions, learn and share your own journey.
6. Find a Cause Empowering women is also empowering a cause. Be a role model because the world needs people who believe in changing the word for better and want to make a difference.
7. Help Women Get Connected with other Women Do not hesitate in introducing women in your network to each other and to make this link between them for potential collaboration. The more you offer, the more you get!
8. Encourage Young Women One of the biggest reasons a lot of girls won’ t follow their dreams of being a coder, an engineer, an astronaut or a politician is due to the lack of encouragement. It is our job to reassure that going to the moon or studying how to build a bridge is definitely a “girl thing".
9. Start at Home Look around your family and friends to find girls who need your strength. They are the first who need your reassurance and stimulation and as a role model, value these women to recognize the value that they have.
10. Collaborate Surround yourself with people that has the same values and believe in collaboration.
What are you doing to support women around you?
Do you still think that as women, we have achieved equality?
If not, please share your thoughts with us and let’s start a conversation. We are gathering outstanding women around the world that are accountable for making changes and support the next generation of girls to have a future that we contemplate as “equal” sharing not only responsibilities on the workplace but at home as well with family household tasks
Candyce Costa founder of Female Tech Leader Think Tank and Magazine.
Passionate advocate for Diversity and Equality in the Tech Industry have been acting as the Women in Tech UK ambassador and London Tech Advocates and for the past 3 years, have developed from scratch this community known before as Digital Business Women - reaching plus 1 Million of engagement on LinkedIn and have more than 12k followers. She is also the founder of a B2B Digital Marketing agency in London.
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