“Every now and then you have that one person say you look really nice today, you look really beautiful. Or something weird like that. They think they're being nice. But I’m thinking you don't even need to say that. It’s a little weird.” says Megan, senior product Director of a large healthcare organization.
“It started off my first day in the Navy. I was a lawyer up in Whidbey Island, Washington. My first client walked into my office and said, I heard there was a new blonde up at legal. And it just set the tone. I went, wow, I just went through law school, did all my Navy training, and that's the first thing I hear. I'm the new blonde up at legal,” says Nicole, CEO of a large non-profit organization.
“A male leader told me, you will never be an executive leader because you do not wear enough makeup or do enough with your hair. And I was heartbroken because it's just not who I am. I am not going to spend a ton of time putting a ton of makeup on every day, just not gonna happen, not who I am. And at first I thought I needed to change and then I was like, I'm not changing,” says Angela, CEO of a healthcare organization.