From Women in the World authored by WITW Staff: “American soccer star Becky Sauerbrunn took to Twitter to proudly post a letter from someone she has described as a personal hero and “a complete rock star” — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Sauerbrunn had sported a jersey bearing Ginsburg’s name for the SheBelieves Cup on March […]
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NICOLE LYNN JUST BECAME THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO REPRESENT A TOP 3 PICK IN THE NFL DRAFT
From Because of Them We Can authored by BOTWC Staff: “When Alabama defensive tackle Quinnen Williams was selected third overall in last night’s NFL draft, it marked a big moment for him and his agent, Nicole Lynn. The move made Lynn, an agent with Young Money APAA Sports, the first Black woman to represent a […]
Iranian lawyer who defended women’s right to remove hijab gets 38 years, 148 lashes
From Women in the World authored by WITW STAFF: “After two trials described by Amnesty International as “grossly unfair,” Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has dedicated her life to defending Iranian women prosecuted for removing their hijabs in public, […]
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 […]
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 […]
