From Harvard Business Review authored by David G. Smith, Judith E. Rosenstein, and Margaret C. Nikolov: “We like to think of ourselves as unbiased and objective in our employment decisions, but with two equal candidates, who are you going to promote? Someone who is described in their performance evaluations as analytical or someone who is […]
Category Archives: Employment
How to Get Over “Vacation Guilt” and Actually Enjoy Your Time Off
From the muse authored by Suzanne Gelb: “Forty percent of Americans leave unused paid vacation time on the table every year. Why? People are afraid of being replaced or they’re afraid of their work piling up while they’re gone. These fears are understandable, but most of the time, they’re not grounded in reality. They’re what psychologists like […]
Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them
From Harvard Business Review authored by Benjamin Artz, Amanda Goodall, and Andrew J. Oswald: “It’s a concrete fact that women earn less than men do. The true gender pay-gap is not known with certainty, but, when comparing equally qualified people doing the same job, most estimates by labor economists put it at 10% – 20%. The crucial […]
Five Bookkeeping Tips for Lawyers
Contribution from our SPONSOR ZipBooks authored by Jaren Nichols, Chief Operating Officer at ZipBooks. Jaren was previously a Product Manager at Google and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Is your business growing? Is it healthy? Without sound income statements, those can be uncomfortable questions. But I get it: I haven’t met a business owner yet […]
5 Kennedy-authored Supreme Court rulings that changed America
From CNN authored by Eric Levenson and Emanuella Grinberg: “Name a major political issue from the past few decades, and chances are that Justice Anthony Kennedy authored the landmark decision on it during his time on the Supreme Court. Since his ascension to the court in 1988, Kennedy has authored some of the judicial body’s […]
How a Gift From Kate Spade Helped This Young Woman Succeed at Her First Big Job
From TIME authored by Alix Langone: “Tassion Minor was gearing up for her upcoming summer internship in New York City when she realized she didn’t have many office-ready outfits in her closet at home in New Orleans. “I was being exposed to different professional opportunities, many of which required me to dress in business attire, […]
How the ’90s Tricked Women Into Thinking They’d Gained Gender Equality
From TIME authored by Allison Yarrow: “As the 90s dawned things were looking up for women. Daughters of second-wave feminism came of age and chose new paths unavailable to their mothers: delaying marriage and children, pursuing higher education, joining the workforce, and assuming independence and identities outside of the home. The gaps between men and women in education “have […]
If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing
From Inc. authored by Benjamin P. Hardy: “According to psychological research, the anticipation of an event is almost always more emotionally powerful than the event itself. The dread of asking your boss for a raise is paralyzing and can last months. Yet, once you get yourself to finally do it, it’s over before you know it. The excitement of attaining some object or objective […]
The extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working women
From TimeLine authored by Meagan Day: “Lorena Weeks worked nearly all her life. When she was a child in Georgia, her father was killed in a sawmill accident, and her mother — 29 years old, with four children — struggled to make ends meet. She entered the workforce, and Lorena did, too. “I went to work at the five-and-ten-cent […]
Artist Reimagines Disney Princesses As Career Women And It’s Everything
From Scary Mommy authored by Christine Marfice: “Disney princesses are role models for a ton of kids, but there’s a big problem with that. So many of the classic princesses make catching a man one of their primary goals, but an artist used his talent to point out that there’s more to life than getting […]
