From CNBC News authored by Tucker Higgins: “The redesign of the $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman will no longer be unveiled in 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday. The unveiling had been timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Mnuchin said the […]
Category Archives: Breaking barriers
Married Women Do More Housework Than Single Moms, Study Finds
From Fortune authored by Emma Hinchliffe: “If you’re a single parent, handling all the housework and childcare responsibilities on your own, you might expect to do more work at home than women with a partner to pick up the slack. But married women actually do more domestic work than their single mom counterparts—provided their partner […]
Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby
From The New York Times authored by Alysia Montano: “Many athletic apparel companies, including Nike, claim to elevate female athletes. A commercial released in February received widespread acclaim for spotlighting women at all stages of their careers, from childhood to motherhood. On Mother’s Day this year, Nike released a video promoting gender equality. But that’s just advertising. The economics […]
It ‘makes you feel invisible’
From The Washington Post authored by Rachel Hatzipangos: “It happened again. Nicholas Pilapil got an email clearly meant for his co-worker, Jonathan Castanien. Previously, Pilapil had missed a meeting invitation because their white co-workers couldn’t tell them apart. So they came up with a cheeky way to address the problem. Between their desks, Pilapil and […]
West Point is about to graduate its largest class of black women
From CNN authored by Tony Marco: “Thirty-four black women are expected to graduate from West Point next week. That will be the largest class of African-American women to graduate together in the military academy’s lengthy history, West Point spokesman Frank Demaro said. “Last year’s graduating class had 27,” said Demaro. “And the expectation is next […]
GETTING TO GENDER EQUALITY WITH ECONOMICS AND PURCHASING POWER
From W2.0 authored by W2.0 Staff: “In 2014, Donna Miller was on vacation with her sisters, Dr. Karen Nern and Dr. Freddi Pennington. All former business executives, with five daughters and three granddaughters between them, they started talking about their frustration with the lack of women in senior leadership positions and the fact that one […]
Hollywood working moms and the brutal conflict between family and career
From The Los Angeles Times authored by Meredith Blake: “Nearly every mother in Hollywood has a horror story. There was the time screenwriter and showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna was 8½ months pregnant and a studio executive joked, “I guess today would be a bad day to punch you in the stomach.” There was the time Nisha Ganatra, […]
What Do You Do When You Become The Statistic You Desperately Hoped To Avoid?
From Above the Law authored by Amy D. Cubbage: “When I got out of law school, freshly minted as an attorney, I was prepared to change the world for women lawyers. My law school class in the mid-1990s was only 30 percent women, and we felt it. We were told in ways both subtle and […]
Moms Are Fighting To Use Campaign Funds For Child Care
From The Huffington Post authored by Molly Redden: “Josie Raymond only campaigned once with her daughter before she realized she had to hire a babysitter. She was in the thick of a competitive race for a Kentucky House seat, and she could easily spend all day canvassing suburban Louisville — but her toddler couldn’t. “We […]
COULD AN APP HELP YOU STOP FIGHTING ABOUT CHORES?
From Mel Magazine authored by Tracy Moore: “Men typically excel at both playing and inventing pointless competitive games, but one man has potentially done civilization a solid and applied his gamification skills toward something that actually kind of matters: household chores. Manhattan civil engineer Bob Ford, a mid-30s father and husband, has developed an app called Labor […]
