“Scientists prove telecommuting is awesome,” went the headlines about a recently published study on the effect on telecommuting on Chinese workers, which was also discussed in Slate. Researchers from Stanford University tracked the productivity of 255 employees in a Chinese travel agency who had been randomly selected to work from home. Because the telecommuters took […]
I’m just old enough (or young enough, depending on how you look at it) to remember the waning days of the sexist job interview. As a law student and lawyer, I remember reading the do’s and don’ts of what to ask or how to respond. For female candidates, there were many no-nos: Never ask about marital status […]
My friend, you are not a feminist, but you may be the best one I know. It recently occurred to me the number of incredible women I have in my life. I also realized that as I’ve gotten older my friendships with women have taken on a deeper meaning. I’m not sure when exactly it […]
This piece originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. When I was 18, I waited tables at an Italian restaurant in my hometown. The staff was the typical collection of teenagers, college drop-outs, townies, and single moms you’d expect at a suburban casual dining establishment. Our boss, Jeff, was an outrageous flirt, […]
The Republican primaries are in full swing and the whole world is watching. After all, whoever is elected to retain or take up residence in the White House is an important issue for us non-U.S. folks as well. Looking back to three years ago I don’t think many would have predicted that Herman Cain would […]
This piece was originally published on Business Insider and is republished here with permission. This is a response to Venture Capitalist Paige Craig’s piece on his concern about women founders and CEOS. First, thanks to Paige for the honesty, humility, and desire to start a dialogue on this important issue. In addition to him airing […]
October is annual National Work & Family Month. Who knew? A 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution declared this to be the month of “encouraging workplaces to pause…and reflect on the progress already made on the journey to work-life effectiveness, to celebrate and then raise the bar moving on to even more pervasive progress.” Though it’s admirable […]
This piece originally appeared on The Current Conscience. Republished with permission. Seven months ago I began actively writing about women. Two months ago I launched a website featuring my point-of-view. I discuss issues that brilliant women writers and commentators have already written and talked about for many years—these women are much more talented than I […]
This piece is part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. As we consider of the question of the “end of gender” it’s important to think beyond the shifts we see in society and consider the […]
This piece was originally published on YourTango as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. My parents thought they were being clever when they decided to name their youngest daughter Jordan. They envisioned a grizzled executive […]
This post originally appeared on the Huffington Post and New Deal 2.0. Republished with permission. In the debate over work-life balance, there’s one argument we can’t seem to move past: Women have made a choice to have kids. Now they have to live with their decision and all of its consequences. But this argument rests […]
In August the Huffington Post officially launched a new Women’s Section, prompting Nicole Rodgers to write an article for Role/Reboot asking when categorizing topics as “women’s issues” benefits women and when it’s simply a convenient excuse for the rest of the population to ignore women’s concerns. Nicole asked Hugo Schwyzer, a Gender Studies professor and […]
