Role Reboot

Women Don’t Need To Change The Way They Speak; Men Just Need To Learn How To Listen

It may seem empowering to believe that women can move through the world free from oppression if they just dress, talk, and act in the “correct” ways, but trying to curtail your life to win men’s approval is itself a form of oppression. If there’s one tenet I cling to as a feminist, it’s that […]

When Getting Engaged Stalls Your Career

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 […]