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My husband will meet someone and within five minutes, they’ve made introductions and are exchanging business cards. “Men don’t need to like you to do business with you. “We’re wired differently from men,” Dee Poku Spalding, founder of the WIE Suite, a private membership-based community for women in leadership, acknowledges. “It’s energizing and creates a virtuous circle,” Rodstein notes.īut lack of confidence and the scarcity mindset aren’t the only barriers that block women from supporting each other. “Generosity of spirit is now just seeping out of our pores.” Of course, in order to feel that generosity of spirit, she adds, it helps to first feel confident about your own power and success.Ĭurtis certainly does-she’s found space for herself and can now use her voice to make space for others. “Women thrive on connection and we were so isolated from each other during COVID,” she says. Rodstein thinks this specific post-pandemic moment is particularly ripe for making such a change. “We were both working mothers and sat in our office and asked each other, ‘Are you tired?’ ‘Yeah, I’m tired.’ We shifted our approach to helping each other and doors opened up.”

Finally, however, something caused a sea change, and they both admitted it would be better to align-to hype each other, really-a move that bolstered the business and their own careers. Rodstein, who began her career in the 1980s, remembers a time when she was managing director at a big firm and felt herself pitted against the only other female managing director they fought constantly, mainly about getting equal time with the CEO.

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The question then becomes, can we normal people take the lessons of our celebrity sisters and implement them in our own professional environments?Įvelyn Rodstein, an executive career coach and leadership expert who has worked in a range of Fortune 100 companies including KPMG and JP Morgan Chase thinks we can, and that it’s in everyone’s best interest. That type of ‘90s and early aughts anti-feminism is certainly on the outs, but it feels like it took a Jamie to truly reset the course.

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This “battle of the babes” was mirrored in pop culture for years, both on and off the screen with TV shows ranging from Beverly Hills 90210 to Desperate Housewives and pseudo-wars that pitted Christina against Britney, Jennifer against Angelina. (Only 82 women of color are promoted.) And let’s not forget the impact of the Great Resignation on the representation of women in the workforce. (And of those 53 women at the helm, only a handful of them are women of color.) According to the “Women in the Workplace” report, published in December 2022 by McKinsey and LeanIn, only 1 in 4 C-Suite leaders is a woman and only 1 in 20 is a woman of color, a gap brought on by what the report refers to as the “broken rung” in the corporate ladder-for every 100 men that are promoted from an entry level position to management, only 87 women are promoted. How grim is it? Well, at the beginning of 2023 we learned that, for the first-time in its seven-decade history, the total number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies is above 10 percent which, while a milestone, is still woefully disproportionate.

“Another woman’s success is a detraction from our own,” Gallagher adds. Especially in corporate cultures, where female leaders are few and far between, we’ve been taught to view other women as threats, our competition.

Instead, she laments, women have been conditioned their whole lives to buy into the scarcity mindset. “There was something about that photo that delivered a physical representation of what hyping another woman looks like,” Gallagher explained in a conversation over Zoom. What was it about one star cheering on another that helped crystalize the deep-rooted benefits of loudly and proudly lifting each other up? We’ve even got the somewhat eyeroll-inducing (though heart-in-the-right-place) Ariana DeBose BAFTA rap written to honor women in film (which, ironically, Curtis also commended). We’ve got Lisa Ann Walter and Elaine Hendrix combating the Parent Trap narrative at the SAG Awards. Suddenly, we’ve got Taylor Swift shouting out SZA on IG stories. Other celebs seem to be hearing this plea and living it. Gallagher’s call to action? “Ladies, this is your vibe for 2023. Gallagher’s LinkedIn post on the topic also went viral, but she credits all this virality to the look on Curtis’s face-her “excitement, joy and passion” for Michelle was “palpable.” If you saw it out of context, you’d actually think it was Curtis who won, she was that genuine in cheering on her colleague and friend.

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