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Women and Leadership

Life is such. You do things, you may or may not get credit. Depends if you did it, how other people saw it. Now, I am not a feminist though I have every reason to be, I am a female. I believe in equality but as I navigate through my life, I realize that men do not. I have been teaching at a community college for several years. I work passionately for my profession be it, teaching , research, mentoring students, placing them in jobs, working in committees, spending countless hours at home, just completing my work, late through night, sometimes entire night and sometime early in the morning, like today is a Saturday and I was up at 4:15am. I do what is told, and I go above and beyond. I know how to do things for best outcomes. My colleagues, they like what I do, they appreciate, they ask me for advice, but in the end credit does not really come back to me. I never snatch things from others, because that is not my style, not my principles, but they do. May be because I am young, may be ...