How to Shake Hands With a Woman at Work

11 tips for women who want the "perfect" handshake.
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How To Shake Hands - Here are 10 tips for women on how to shake hands with confidence, an important tool in making the right first impression.

I find shaking hands with women in business situations occasionally disconcerting. The difference in hand size can cause problems. Also, I don’t know how much pressure is appropriate, or if it should be merely a clasp. What’s proper?
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This modern world, it is confusing. Women dressing up as men, striding around office buildings willy-nilly, their brazen crotchal forks shrouded only in a thin layer of cotton-poly blend? (Personally, I find it comforting to think of female pants as "dual leg-cages"—much more modest.) But what's next—dogs on their hind legs wearing pith helmets and taking all the best gentleman explorer jobs!? Must we rename the South Pole "Admiral Crackers's Milkbone Oasis?" True, Admiral Crackers is an intrepid fellow (also he has very soft ears), but these days it's like you can't even hide in a bathroom stall and whisper through the partition to urinating women that they have "tempting ankles" anymore without getting hauled off to a reeducation gulag/webinar by the brain police! Honestly. Honestly.
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Different cultures show respect in different ways. While Japanese men show respect with a bow of the head, it's customary in the United States to shake hands with both men and women in a professional setting. The act of shaking a woman's hand and a man's hand is essentially the same, even if the process is awkward for some people. As long as you...