112 - Here's an easy way to be a mentor and an ally
Any time you negotiate for a benefit for yourself, tell other people - particularly those who lack status and power. When I became a faculty member, I negotiated a reduced teaching load for my first year. That was 20 years ago, and I still tell every new hire: "This is what I did and what I got, in case you want to ask for the same." I'm pretty sure that one sentence has cost my school hundreds of thousands of dollars. #sorrynotsorry When I had my first child I had to negotiate the paramete...