Now it’s time for women to get to work on the biggest domestic job of our time: putting the country back on a course of civil public conversation. The recent annual release of the American Time Use Survey confirms what women already know: It’s up to us to clean house. Once again, women spent more time—about 30 percent more—doing housework than men. For […]
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 […]
We are still teaching girls that they should “become confident” by doing what they are told to do and by making other people comfortable. American girls, we hear repeatedly, lack confidence. According to a study conducted by Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, by high school, girls—particularly white girls—are less likely than their male peers to […]
This originally appeared on BossedUp.org. Republished here with permission. The same qualities deemed necessary for leadership in our culture are positively correlated with likeability for men and negatively correlated with likeability for women. Lean in, they say. Crack the confidence code, we’re told. Boss up, we say, by investing in your personal sustainability to achieve […]
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 […]
