This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women by Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff of The New York Times says that more and more men are starting to see the benefits of jobs long-dominated by women. […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Wall Street is notorious for its lack of female power brokers. Catalyst reports that women make up only 15% of executive or senior-level officers in investment banking and securities companies. The fall of one of these women results in public scrutiny. Ina Drew of JPMorgan Chase […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. New Marriages or No Marriages? by Nancy Folbre of the Economix blog of The New York Times says that why more children are being born to unmarried mothers is a complex question involving education, income, […]
In Time for International Women’s Day on March 8, Researchers at the Council on Contemporary Families Debate: “Is the Gender Revolution Over?” In 1973—less than 40 years ago—the Supreme Court ruled that sex-segregated employment ads were illegal. The next two decades saw massive, rapid action in eradicating old laws and prejudices. But now three researchers […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. Ani Chopourian, a 43–year-old surgeon’s assistant, received a $167.7 million dollar award last week from a California jury for sexual harassment. It is believed to be the largest verdict ever granted to a single victim for sexual harassment in the United States. The jury allocated $42.7 […]
It’s embarrassing. It’s uncomfortable. It’s devastating. It’s something women my age are taught to think is in the past. But, it’s not. It is very much alive in 2012. It’s workplace sexual harassment and gender bias. It’s happened to me and it has probably happened to a woman you love. Before it happened to me, […]
This week, we came across an article in Businessweek called Behind Every Great Woman by Carol Hymowitz. It explores the changing rules of many modern families—as more women earn high-level corporate roles, more husbands are staying home to raise their children. And since 23% of wives now out-earn their husbands, women now fill a (slight) […]
Mass media has trumpeted a market research study’s conclusion that young, single, childless, white women living in cities out-earn their male counterparts. Feminists would love to embrace the results, but, in fact, the analysis has many flaws, including the failure to account for educational differences. That hasn’t stopped The New York Times from characterizing this […]
Making New Year’s resolutions about work/life balance? If you want to tilt the scales towards either more working or more living this year, how much control does your household have to make it happen? Work/life balance conversations inevitably get framed in terms of work quantity. Are we working too much, or too little? How well […]
This article originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished here with permission. Men in all positions of power need to overcome their fears, Hugo Schwyzer writes, and start making themselves available to members of the opposite sex. I received two similar emails last week asking the same question: Why don’t more men in positions […]
Sarah Jackson’s November 21 column “The Unconscious Feminist” on Role/Reboot sparked great interest and intense debate. Ms. Jackson described discovering, during a conversation with a close woman friend, that while they shared a very similar ideology regarding the issue of racial inequality—namely that it exists, persists, and requires education and ongoing action to counteract—her friend […]
This article originally appeared on CNN Opinion. Republished here with permission. Why is having an affair worse than being a sexual harasser? Why does a woman’s claim that she had a 13-year extramarital romance with Herman Cain seem to be more deadly to his Republican presidential campaign than accusations by several other women that he […]
