“It’s like the woman has to be in the dark until the burden of the work comes along.” “I hate this whole idea that everything has to be a surprise,” a friend recently told me. We were talking about proposals, specifically hers. It hadn’t been a surprise; she and her then-boyfriend had discussed getting engaged. […]
It appears that in some quarters, when a woman is perceived as unavailable sexually, that can make her invisible professionally. When Starbucks recently issued a new dress policy that essentially banned wedding and engagement rings, the response was swift. Employees and their partners started a “Boycott Starbucks” hashtag on Twitter. Although it was later revealed that the policy […]
