As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount.11
As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school’s computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
As Sharon Poczter, professor of economics at Cornell, explains, The antiquated rhetoric of ‘having it all’ disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are de...
Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal—and equally capable—partner. And if that’s not reason enough, bear in mind that a study found that wives who engage in gatekee...
Anyone who brings up gender in the workplace is wading into deep and muddy waters. The subject itself presents a paradox, forcing us to acknowledge differences while trying to achieve the goal of bein...
And contrary to the popular notion that only unmarried women can make it to the top, the majority of the most successful female business leaders have partners.
All over the world, there is cultural pressure to conceal negative emotions. In China and Japan, the ideal emotional state is calm and composed.10 In the United States, we like excitement (OMG!) and e...
Alice Walker, who observed, The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Adam has published five different studies demonstrating that meaningful work buffers against burnout.
A 2011 McKinsey report noted that men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.14
1) personalization—the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness—the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence—the belief that the aftershocks of the event will l...
Gender bias influences how we view performance and typically raises our assessment of men while lowering our assessment of women.
If you ask men why they did a good job, they'll say, 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job, what they'll say is someone helped them, they got luck...
Можливо, і справді існують еволюційні причини того, що один з батьків ліпше знає, який обід треба дати дітям у школу. Жінки годують грудьми, тому, так би мовити, у них і запаковано перші обіди їхніх д...
When it comes to integrating career and family, planning too far in advance can close doors rather than open them.
Spend more time comforting and hugging infant girls and more time watching infant boys play by themselves.22 Other cultural messages are more blatant. Gymboree once sold onesies proclaiming Smart like...
Hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get thro...
Feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equality of the sexes—the
Caring means that when someone is hurting, you cannot imagine being anywhere else. This
Beliefs: (1) they have some control over their lives; (2) they can learn from failure; (3) they matter as human beings; and (4) they have real strengths to rely on and share.