Discussion Questions

1. What are some ways women can gain by supporting each other? Where have you found support and given it to others?
2. What forms of gender bias in others have impacted your life? Which internal biases have impacted you?
3. What are some ways women can help define each other as leaders?
4. How can you can help another woman overcome self-doubt?
5. What strategy and script from Chapter 4 will you use to respond to hurtful comments?
6. What are some of the factors that make women mean to others?
7. Describe some strategies to counteract female bullying.
8. What strategy and script from Chapter 7 do you think might help you combat mean women and build community?
9. How have societal attitudes towards sexual harassment changed in the past 10 years? What resources are available to help women?
10. What ideas will you use from Chapter 9 to communicate with men to make them your allies?
11. How can listening help improve relationships among the genders? When is it important to insist on being heard?
12. How can you use your “power to” make change?
13. What techniques can you use to get “unstuck?”
14. What one thing in the book did you find most valuable?