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New research uncovers that women are using AI less than men at work, risking long-term career and leadership gaps.​ Companies have a key role to play; they need to build the structures that make AI fluency accessible, visible, and expected. Policy and process can open doors, but culture determines whether women walk through them. Leaders need to create environments where experimenting with AI is encouraged and progress is celebrated.​But women can’t wait for companies to catch up.​

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Headlines that Matter

Megan Thomas paid for a small sign at Syracuse’s airport advertising her law firm, which aims to help victims of workplace sexual harassment.

Thomas paid for the ad last summer, hoping to hit peak summer vacation traffic. But the airport refused to post her ad, telling her she needed to “tone it down.”

Syracuse Hancock International Airport officials called Thomas’s ad was “unprofessional, inflammatory, and unnecessary.” In particular, the airport authority objected to one sentence Thomas wanted to include in her ad:

“When HR called it harmless flirting, we called it exhibit A.”

Thomas sued. And now, after a judge called the airport’s position “nonsense” and the two parties settled, the lawyer’s ad is now up at the airport in a massive display that takes up two walls. The sentence the officials initially refused is now on the walls, the letters more than a foot tall.

“I wanted the biggest and best spots they had,” Thomas said.

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Unlocked:

Lessons, stories, & doors opened by campaign creator Christy Harst​

The VO community is small. And conversations travel fast.​

Recently, I became aware of a moment where a well-known member of our industry, unprompted, in a meeting that had nothing to do with Building Doors, chose to bring it up.

Not to understand it. Not to ask questions. But to frame it in a way that made the work feel… less than it is.​

At first, I felt defensive. I wanted to rattle off all the ways this campaign has made an impact, all the stories, all the doors we’ve helped build and open.

And then I remembered something I stumbled across while doom-scrolling during the pandemic:

Other people’s opinions about you—good or bad—are none of your business.

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