The single easiest, fastest thing your company can do to boost its output and profits is to get everybody off the 55-hour-a-week treadmill, and back onto a 40-hour footing. If you’re lucky enough to have a job right now, you’re probably doing everything possible to hold onto it. If the boss asks you to work […]
I’m waiting for the public conversation about women and work to shift away from leadership and toward leading a good life. Every time I get a letter from my MBA program, I feel guilty. Unlike my other classmates, I don’t have a high-powered career—a vocation with thousands of people and millions of dollars in my […]
The publishing world is continuing to send a generations-old message that a person’s gender and the color of their skin affects their ability to produce literature. Luckily, when I recently came across a New York Times essay by Jennifer Weiner about the increased pressure on female writers to tend to their looks, I was coming […]
It’s a risky business move, but Starbucks sees it as an ethical and moral imperative, which is respectable. Earlier this week, Starbucks announced an initiative to start a conversation on race and racism in their stores. The idea is simple: Allow Starbucks workers the opportunity to initiate conversations with customers about race by writing the […]
Young women today can lean in. We can step up. We can grind the last shards of the glass ceiling into a powder. We can have it all. But what if we don’t want to? In 1970, 3% of law students, 4% of MBA candidates, and 10% of medical students were female. Those numbers are […]
