From The American Lawyer authored by Christine Simmons: “The news that former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has dementia has brought renewed attention to the potential of age-related cognitive impairment in lawyers. While several in the industry say law firms are still underprepared to address a diagnosis among their lawyers, some recent initiatives can help firms […]
Monthly Archives: October 2018
Silence and powerlessness go hand in hand – women’s voices must be heard
From The Guardian authored by Rebecca Solnit: “Silence is golden, or so I was told when I was young. Later, everything changed. Silence equals death, the queer activists fighting the neglect and repression around Aids shouted in the streets. Silence is the ocean of the unsaid, the unspeakable, the repressed, the erased, the unheard. It […]
How to Tell If Someone Is Manipulating You—And What to Do About It
From TIME authored by Cassie Shortsleeve: “If you’ve ever felt like something is off in a close relationship or casual encounter—you’re being pressured, controlled or even feel like you’re questioning yourself more than usual—it could be manipulation. “Manipulation is an emotionally unhealthy psychological strategy used by people who are incapable of asking for what they want and […]
Lady Gaga Opened Up About the “Tornado of Pain” Caused by Sexual Assault and Mental Health Issues
From Teen Vogue authored by Andrea Park: “In the past few years, Lady Gaga has spoken out time and again about the mental and physical pain she’s experienced due to her fibromyalgia, mental health issues, and ongoing trauma from the sexual assault she experienced at age 19. On Monday night, while being honored at Elle‘s Women in Hollywood event in Los […]
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
From The Guardian authored by Harriet Griffey: “It is difficult to imagine life before our personal and professional worlds were so dominated and “switched on” via smartphones and the other devices that make us accessible and, crucially, so easily distractible and interruptible every second of the day. This constant fragmentation of our time and concentration […]
Why Are Women Lousy Negotiators? Hint: They Don’t Lie Enough
From The American Lawyer authored by Viva Chen: “It pains me to say this, but men and women are different—very different—in how they approach negotiation. And guess what? Men are winning, winning, winning. That’s the distressing conclusion of a recent study reported in the Harvard Business Review by Leigh Thompson, a professor at the Kellogg School of […]
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
From The New Yorker authored by Sarah Stillman: “Helen—a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl—is an asylum seeker from Honduras. This summer, when a social worker asked her to identify her strengths, Helen shared her pride in “her ability to learn fast and express her feelings and concerns.” She also recounted her favorite activities (“playing with her dolls”), […]
Overworking ourselves is overrated and unhealthy. Why is it so hard to respect work-life balance?
From The Lily authored by Brianna Gilmartin: “Why does our society perpetuate the idea that people must be constantly working in order to be worthy of respect? I get tired of the way our culture fetishizes overworking. People contribute to this by competing over who has worked the hardest, longest hours as though overworking makes […]
This is the cost of women’s workplace emotional labor
From Fast Company authored by Gwen Moran: “Welcome to being a working woman in the 2010s, where the gender pay gap, scant leadership representation, and negotiation backlash—not to mention #metoo and #timesup—are common workplace land mines. Be sure you regulate your composure so you’re not too “abrasive.” Also, we’re going to need you to do your part for workplace culture by […]
Make an Ass of Yourself: How to Embrace Your Imperfections and Live Unfiltered
From Extreme You authored by Sarah Robb O’Hagan: “In the Spring of 2009, I had just returned to work after giving birth to my third child, when I received an excited request from the PR team to participate in a photoshoot for a media article about the turnaround of Gatorade. Those were still the glorious […]
