From Time authored by Melinda Gates: “In 1976, one year after the term “sexual harassment” was coined, the magazine Redbook reported that 90 percent of women surveyed said they’d been sexually harassed at work. Last year, the Elephant in the Valley study revealed that 60 percent of women in tech had been subject to unwanted sexual advances. It’s disheartening to think […]
Category Archives: Breaking barriers
The Year Women Found Their Rage
From The Huffington Post authored by Emma Gray: “A year ago tonight, I thought I was about to walk into the room where our first female president would take the stage. The energy was electric when my team and I arrived at the Javits Center in the early evening hours of Nov. 8. There was premature […]
Millennial Moms: Make Home Work Like Work
From Medium authored by Neal Godfrey: “The big news in the workplace over the past couple of decades has been the emergence of women as a significant force. We had the opportunity to show what we can do, and we’ve done it. We’ve made the workplace a different place, a better place. We are educated, […]
Women’s Whisper Network Raises Its Voice
From The New York Times authored by Julie Creswell and Tiffany Hsu: “They called themselves the Glass Ceiling Club. A group of young and ambitious women in the 1990s from the investment bank Bear Stearns would gather at local restaurants every couple of months to discuss how to make the workplace more female friendly. The conversations […]
The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem
From The New Yorker authored by Sheelah Kolhatkar: “One day in 2013, AJ Vandermeyden drove to Tesla’s corporate headquarters, in Palo Alto, California, sat down on a bench outside the main entrance, and waited, in the hope of spotting someone who looked like a company employee. Vandermeyden, who was thirty years old, had been working as […]
India Rules Sex With a Child Bride Is Always Rape in a Massive Win for Girls’ Rights
From Global Citizen authored by Imogen Calderwood: “India’s top court has ruled that sex with a child is always rape, quashing a clause that allowed men to have sex with underage girls if they were married to them. The Supreme Court’s landmark decision on Wednesday closed a legal loophole that has historically allowed perpetrators of […]
Where do kids learn to undervalue women? From their parents.
From The Washington Post authored by Darcy Lockman: “With good reason, much of the concern about misogyny is currently focused on the workplace. As the #MeToo testimonials have shown, the professional world all too frequently tasks women with silent endurance of morally unacceptable (or downright criminal) behavior. But even those of us who have avoided the most abusive workplaces live […]
The First Female Lawyer in America Took the Bar Illegally. A True Lady in Defiance.
From Ladies in Defiance authored by Heather Frey Blanton: “Arabella Mansfield. You’ve probably never heard of her unless you’re from Iowa, but Arabella was the first woman in America to become a lawyer. She passed the Iowa bar in 1869, illegally. Still, Arabella’s milestone proves that behind many a good woman there often stands […]
Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
From Above the Law authored by Olga V. Mack and Katia Bloom: “In our previous article on the five stages of transformation: frustration, trial and error, the “Aha!” moment, discovery and synchronization, we went over the process we all go through in order to transform and grow. Struggling Through Frustration & Trial & Error While we […]
I’m 10. And I Want Girls to Raise Their Hands.
From The New York Times authored by Alice Paul Trapper: “Last year on a fourth-grade field trip, I noticed that all the boys stood in the front and raised their hands while most of the girls politely stayed in the back and were quiet. It made me upset. On the car ride home I told […]
