Women can be amazingly supportive in female professional groups on Facebook
My top takeaways from reading a year of posts in the Facebook Groups Female Digital Nomads and Freelancing Females.
Women can be amazingly supportive in female professional groups on Facebook
My top takeaways from reading a year of posts in the Facebook Groups Female Digital Nomads and Freelancing Females.
I have been reading, lurking, and sometimes contributing to several professional groups on Facebook for the past few years, including Female Digital Nomads (56k members) and Freelancing Females (33k members) have noticed some overall themes emerging which I summarize below.
I also belong to several professional and personal development groups that are moderated by men and have a large male presence. After a year of reading those posts and interactions as well as the female groups, I am even more convinced of the need for a separate female space. The culture is totally different in majority female groups. There is less mansplaining (guess what, men do it to other men too!) less posturing, and bragplaining (wherein you complain about a small aspect of something to hilight y…
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