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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
TAIT #HerStory
info.taittowers.com: We're celebrating Women's History Month with our anunal #herstory and featuring a handful of our very own world-class women. Meet Jess, Inga, Sabrina and Katie - four women with varying skill sets innovating the extraordinary!
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Sidney R.
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I appreciate the variety of questions that were asked to the women interviewed. There is a balance between their role in the company, and what they do outside of it. When Tait came to give a presentation at CMU, I remember all of the five or six presenters were male. But when asked about it, they were very transparent. They told us that while the ratio of men to women in their company is unbalanced, they are firmly making an effort to balance it out as they continue to build their company. Seeing a variety of women in this piece was also important to me, because it informed me more about the careers offered at Tait, specifically those in management. Seeing all these women in important leadership roles at such a large company is inspiring. Choosing to ask who inspires them is also notable because it reveals who motivated them to dream big and have the confidence to go for it.
I loved that this article showcased these women, their accomplishments, and the things they are proud of and personally connect to. It is an honest portrayal of who they are and their efforts to have positive effects on others. I think it’s so interesting and unique the kinds of volunteering and philanthropic work these women do, as well as the activities they partake in on their own time. They are clearly all driven, thoughtful, and hardworking women, and I aspire to uphold and acquire these qualities and many others in myself as I enter the industry. The way Tait showcased this group of their female employees for Women’s History Month was dignified and respectful, and I hope they continue to improve their gender inclusion, not only of females, in the future. Their industry has always been primarily made up of by men, but seeing articles like this gives me hope that it will balance out over time, and that more women, nonbinary, and trans people will have access to more opportunities.
I’ll start off by saying I’m fairly biased toward TAIT ever since they came to CMU and there answer to the questioning of the diversity and gender balance of their employees and part of their answer was “we’d like to hire more women but these are just the people applying”. Companies truly interested in diversity will make it part of their mission to seek out opportunities to enhance diversity and their answer came off as being really lazy and a badly veiled response to saying they don’t care. But I think doing things like this is a step in the right direction if they are doing it in a well intentioned way and not a box checking way. It would’ve been nice to see some deeper questions and more in-depth about each individual however, maybe this is a small victory and we’re creeping toward a better world, at least one would hope so.
I appreciate that TAIT went out of their way to create this piece on the women who work with their company, mainly because I feel as though it will encourage more women to follow in their steps in commercial shop environments. These women amazed me with their clear dedication to their work, their thoughtfulness, and the pieces of their multifaceted life. I was glad to see that these women took all sorts of roles in the company, including higher leadership. I appreciated that these women were rightly presented as incredible people, and not just that they are “women in a man’s world”. All of that being said, I do hope that they do more to find a diverse group to work there. I am always a little bit sad when we have to make an article like this seemingly just to prove that women do, in fact, work there, but highlighting them and encouraging others to follow behind will do some good.
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I appreciate the variety of questions that were asked to the women interviewed. There is a balance between their role in the company, and what they do outside of it. When Tait came to give a presentation at CMU, I remember all of the five or six presenters were male. But when asked about it, they were very transparent. They told us that while the ratio of men to women in their company is unbalanced, they are firmly making an effort to balance it out as they continue to build their company. Seeing a variety of women in this piece was also important to me, because it informed me more about the careers offered at Tait, specifically those in management. Seeing all these women in important leadership roles at such a large company is inspiring. Choosing to ask who inspires them is also notable because it reveals who motivated them to dream big and have the confidence to go for it.
I loved that this article showcased these women, their accomplishments, and the things they are proud of and personally connect to. It is an honest portrayal of who they are and their efforts to have positive effects on others. I think it’s so interesting and unique the kinds of volunteering and philanthropic work these women do, as well as the activities they partake in on their own time. They are clearly all driven, thoughtful, and hardworking women, and I aspire to uphold and acquire these qualities and many others in myself as I enter the industry. The way Tait showcased this group of their female employees for Women’s History Month was dignified and respectful, and I hope they continue to improve their gender inclusion, not only of females, in the future. Their industry has always been primarily made up of by men, but seeing articles like this gives me hope that it will balance out over time, and that more women, nonbinary, and trans people will have access to more opportunities.
I’ll start off by saying I’m fairly biased toward TAIT ever since they came to CMU and there answer to the questioning of the diversity and gender balance of their employees and part of their answer was “we’d like to hire more women but these are just the people applying”. Companies truly interested in diversity will make it part of their mission to seek out opportunities to enhance diversity and their answer came off as being really lazy and a badly veiled response to saying they don’t care. But I think doing things like this is a step in the right direction if they are doing it in a well intentioned way and not a box checking way. It would’ve been nice to see some deeper questions and more in-depth about each individual however, maybe this is a small victory and we’re creeping toward a better world, at least one would hope so.
I appreciate that TAIT went out of their way to create this piece on the women who work with their company, mainly because I feel as though it will encourage more women to follow in their steps in commercial shop environments. These women amazed me with their clear dedication to their work, their thoughtfulness, and the pieces of their multifaceted life. I was glad to see that these women took all sorts of roles in the company, including higher leadership. I appreciated that these women were rightly presented as incredible people, and not just that they are “women in a man’s world”. All of that being said, I do hope that they do more to find a diverse group to work there. I am always a little bit sad when we have to make an article like this seemingly just to prove that women do, in fact, work there, but highlighting them and encouraging others to follow behind will do some good.
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