From The Wall Street Journal authored by Te-Ping Chen: “Ashlyn Burgett usually likes getting text messages, but then she was added to a group text chain with co-workers last fall, and the pictures started arriving. First came the grandchildren. Then colleagues’ pets. Her phone flashed with messages all weekend. “They think we like it, because you […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
From The New York Times authored by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries: “When detectives in a Phoenix suburb arrested a warehouse worker in a murder investigation last December, they credited a new technique with breaking open the case after other leads went cold. The police told the suspect, Jorge Molina, they had data tracking his phone to the […]
Will I Get a Better Job If I Pretend I’m a Bad Assistant?’
From The Cut authored by Alison Green: “Dear Boss, My partner offered me some surprising career advice the other day and it’s been weighing on my mind since. I had been venting about a bad week at work. I have ended up with a really tiresome and time-heavy task that has nothing to do with […]
Inside One Woman’s Fight to Rewrite the Law on Marital Rape
From The New York Times authored by Karen Zraick: “Jenny Teeson was in the middle of a divorce when she found a video of her husband sexually assaulting her in her sleep. The discovery turned her into a leading advocate for overturning archaic laws that can make it nearly impossible to prosecute men for marital […]
What Do Women Want? Law Firms Are Clueless.
From The American Lawyer authored by Viva Chen: “Memo to all you well-meaning law firms out there trying your darnedest to retain and promote women: You are doing it all wrong. All those marvelous initiatives you’ve been touting—flexible work arrangements, mentoring programs, affinity groups, transition coaching for new moms and the like—are not getting women […]
A record number of congresswomen are mothers. Here’s a glimpse inside their first-ever caucus.
From The Washington Post authored by Caitlin Gibson: “How are your kids doing? It isn’t the question itself that bothers Katie Porter. The freshman Democratic congresswoman from California, a single mom of three children, is perfectly aware that inquiring about another person’s family is just polite small talk. But there’s something about the way some […]
Women Describe Their Experience Working in Big Law, And It’s Not Pretty
From Law.com authored by Eric Hichman: “Earlier this month it was revealed that six women are in the process of suing Jones Day over accusations of alleged gender discrimination (to catch up see here and here). The timing of the lawsuits coincides with the end of a yearlong research partnership between the American Bar Association and ALM […]
For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
From Harvard Business Review authored by Joan C. Williams and Marina Multhaup: “Organizations have been trying to improve diversity in the workplace for decades — with little success. The most common techniques, such as one-time sensitivity trainings, haven’t worked. The numbers of women and people of color in leadership roles are still staggeringly low across […]
The FDA Wants to Change Mammogram Regulations for the First Time in Two Decades
From TIME authored by Jamie Ducharme: “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to require mammogram providers to tell women if they have a common risk factor for breast cancer. The proposal, released Wednesday, would be the FDA’s first update to mammography regulations in more than 20 years, according to a statement from the agency. Among […]
Giant boob balloons encourage Londoners to embrace breastfeeding in public
From Women in the World authored by WITW Staff: “Gigantic breast-shaped balloons are appearing all over London as part of a campaign highlighting the stigma that mothers breastfeeding in public still face in the British capital. The goal of the #FreetheFeed campaign, which first made headlines with its head-turning inflatable boobs in 2017, is to “remove […]
