Learn how to optimize your undergraduate experience and to gain insight into foreign policy education. This article will deepen your knowledge of the field and let you develop important skills like teamwork, leadership, and communication.

Despite statistics showing that female employees consistently earn less than their male colleagues over time, many women remain intimidated by the process of negotiating an initial salary raise, even after being presented with a job offer.

This course is a-post graduate programme which trains participants in translating policy issues into research questions and analysing qualitative and quantitative data.

Women are often told to ‘speak up’ about issues, as if it is an easy process in which everyone always listens and change occurs incrementally. Power dynamics within the workplace can make speaking up more difficult to achieve.

My experience of working in the foreign policy world, exposed me to a sector which is still problematic in promoting a single story narrative because it lacks diversity and inclusivity around thought leadership.

Foreign policy currently does not automatically assume the intellectual and leadership contributions of women, while we do so with men. Transatlantic think tanks are, however, in a unique position as analytical institutions and path givers to change this.

The Zig Zag is a platform which highlights the experiences and research of womxn in the foreign policy sector, addressing specific career concerns rarely discussed online.