If you don't ask, you won't get.
You give up over $500,000
over the course of your career
if you don't negotiate your first salary.
So you can see what a big impact
not negotiating your first salary can have.
I'm really glad that I took
what was a huge risk in self advocacy.
There's never been a better time
to be a woman in science and medicine.
Good afternoon, everyone.
We would like to welcome you
to our inaugural
Women in Science day at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
So the event is Women in Science day.
It was inspired because the UN
a couple of years ago,
named February 11,
the International Day for women and girls in science
and we wanted to sort of
celebrate that here at Einstein.
So our goal was to focus on building
some personal and professional skills
that we thought were
necessary for career success.
And these themes like speaking up 
and effective networking.
negotiation, and self advocacy, 
really came up throughout the year
in a lot of our other events.
And we thought that it would be nice
to have a larger discussion.
And we received just an immense amount of support
when we reached out to the Graduate Office,
the Career and Professional Development Office,
and the Office of Diversity Enhancement.
And they encouraged us to really celebrate this day
and create this community and network
of women here at Einstein and Montefiore.
Maybe they're the only woman in their lab
or realize when they go to some meetings
they are the only woman in the room.
But I think hopefully from this event, 
they can see that there are 
a lot of women at Einstein
of varying levels of leadership.
And so hopefully we can bring everyone together
and really say, you're not alone.
We're all in this together,
and we can build each other up.
Our group plans monthly events 
ranging from workshops,
journal clubs, and networking meetups.
The Women's Networking Group,
they really ran with it.
They conceived of the idea
they reached out to their network
for speakers, for concepts...
and the faculty support that they were able to obtain,
I think was critical to making this
event really a success.
It doesn't hurt to say,
"Can you give me a strong recommendation?"
and then listen to the feedback.
I've talked to a number of faculty who are
actually very interested in partaking in this event,
because they would like to actually pass on
and be a mentor.
So then they can share their experiences
and help provide that support network for people
that are still training to succeed in their careers.
This event is so important because
I think there's still a lot of confusion about how
many different kinds of opportunities there are
for women in science and technology specifically.
So this event, in part is bringing together
all of these spectacular women scientists at Einstein
and having us sort of learn from each other
how we've made it to this point in our career,
what we wish we knew when we got started,
how we built our networks,
and how we've gotten mentored 
and have provided mentoring
to junior scientists as well.
And so I think the real importance here is
just letting women know that there are all
these different kinds of paths that you can take
with a Ph.D. and a scientific career.
Because these are the types of gatherings
that make an appreciation
of where you're coming from,
where we're coming from,
where we are now,
and where we all need to go
in the future.
I think there's multiple reasons why it's so important...
One, it really provides women with
professional development education
that you're not necessarily getting,
right.
If you're a scientist in a lab,
you're getting a lot of education
that focuses on understanding
that science and work,
but you're not getting a lot of education
on your own professional development.
So being able to have that in a nice forum is great.
And then the other thing is, it's just 
a wonderful community building opportunity
at the institution as well.
So it highlights some of our great faculty.
It allows for collaborations between
our students and faculty
and continues to help us see the
kind of community that we are.
I'd like to offer a round of applause to our panelists.
(Applause)
We are hoping that we will inform
our Einstein community
of this amazing legacy that we have
as an institution of
a lot of pioneering women scientists,
but also, we're hoping that
we will build a larger community,
and that we can kind of sustain this momentum
that we have from today.
