Women are often taught assertive means bitch and/or unhinged. How easy do you find being assertive? Has this changed through your life?
Women are often taught assertive means bitch and/or unhinged. How easy do you find being assertive? Has this changed through your life?
My dad brought me up to not put up with bullshit, so I had some bolstering in my upbringing. But even with that when I started working life I found it really hard to assert myself.
Now?
I’m what my father brought me up to be: self-confident and assertive. And if someone pushes back at “the bitch” they’ll find out what me being bitchy REALLY looks like.