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Women, AI, and What Nobody Tells You
Everything I know about the AI gap, the sticky floors underneath it, and what it takes to get picked. Written from fifteen years inside the rooms where those decisions got made.
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Job Hugging: Why Women Are Holding On to Jobs That Burn Them Out and How They Can Move Forward
Nearly half of women in tech have faced discrimination, more of them are burned out, and the path up is blurry. Here is how to stop holding on out of fear and decide on purpose.
Erica Rooney
8 hours ago12 min read


Pay Transparency Laws Are Spreading: What Ireland's Public Pay Gap Reports Show and How to Use the Numbers to Get Paid and Promoted
At one tech giant in Ireland, women hold 62% of the lowest-paid jobs and men hold 63% of the highest. Now anyone can look that up, and the same kind of data is headed your way.
Erica Rooney
3 days ago11 min read


How to AI-Proof Your Career When Even AI Companies Are Hiring Fewer Beginners (and What They Want Instead)
The junior share of new technical hires at Anthropic fell from 27% to 9%. Here is what that tells a woman who already has a job, or manages the women coming up behind her, about the skills that count now.
Erica Rooney
3 days ago11 min read


Funding for Women Entrepreneurs: Why Women Still Get Less of the Money and How to Change That
Women lead about 40 percent of the new businesses built to grow, and the early money still flows to men. Here are five moves for women who own a business or are thinking about it.
Erica Rooney
Nov 510 min read


Getting Paid for AI Skills: What to Do When AI Work Lands in Your Job but Not in Your Title or Pay
A new 2026 report found AI work is landing in jobs without a new title, a raise or even a heads up. If you have become the AI person on your team, here is how to get that work written down and counted.
Erica Rooney
Nov 311 min read


AI Time Savings at Work: Who Keeps the Hours AI Saves You and How to Negotiate Your Share
Some of the most powerful women in business just asked who should keep the hours AI saves. Nobody has solved it yet, so here is how to claim your share before it turns into more work.
Erica Rooney
Nov 312 min read


AI Skills That Get You Promoted in 2026 and Beyond
A new Workday report says demand for basic prompting is falling and promotions are flat. Here is what I would do this quarter if I were still waiting on training that never showed up.
Erica Rooney
Oct 2610 min read


The AI Gender Gap at Work: Why Women Get Less Credit for Using AI (and How to Close It)
I hid my AI use for months because I wanted people to think I was that good on my own. The 2026 data says a lot of women are doing the same thing, and it is costing us credit and pay.
Erica Rooney
Oct 2610 min read


Leading a Team Through Fear: Ask This Before You Push Them Harder
A new manager could not get her team to make the calls. One honest question changed what she was dealing with. Here are the four questions to use this week.
Erica Rooney
Oct 207 min read


Negotiation Skills for Women: Why AI Just Made Yours Worth More
AI can draft the memo, but it can't make the judgment call, and a 2026 study says women already get equal deals at the negotiating table while building more trust. Here are four moves to turn that into the title and pay your work has earned.
Erica Rooney
Oct 1510 min read


Motherhood and Leadership: The Skills You Built at Home Deserve a Raise
Raising kids is a daily crash course in triage, patience, and hard calls. New 2026 research says parents got more ambitious after having kids, so here are four ways to get paid for the leadership you built at home.
Erica Rooney
Oct 158 min read


Masculine Energy at Work Has a Price Tag. Here Is Who Pays It.
The loudest person in the room gets called a leader, and the bill goes to everyone else. Here are the dollar figures, and what to do so your work gets the title and the pay.
Erica Rooney
Oct 910 min read


HER SAY: What Happens When Women Stop Shrinking
HER SAY was never meant to be a networking event. It was designed as an intimate gathering for women who are done doing it alone and ready to cultivate real growth, powerful connection, and collective momentum. Wine, cocktails, mocktails, and hors d’oeuvres set the tone, but what made the evening special was not what was in the glasses. It was what was spoken out loud.
Erica Rooney
Feb 283 min read


Borrowed Confidence and the Power of the Right Room
When Erica reconnected with a former coaching client after three years, the transformation wasn't in her title or resume—it was in her presence. This is the story of a woman who borrowed confidence long enough to step into the right room, stayed two years, and walked out leading AI strategy at a global company. A reminder that you don't need perfect confidence to take the next step. Sometimes you just need the right room, the right conversation, and permission to start.
Erica Rooney
Feb 43 min read
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