From Fast Company authored by Anisa Purbasari Horton: “Rita Kakati Shah was thinking about returning to work after three and a half years of raising her two children. Armed with 15 years of experience in the financial sector and the pharmaceutical industry (including a 10-year stint at Goldman Sachs), she decided to start the process […]
Category Archives: Strategy
A classmate of the woman who was killed after getting into a fake ride-hailing car is pushing Uber and Lyft for a simple safety fix
From Business Insider authored by Julie Bort: “The recent killing of the 21-year-old University of South Carolina college student Samantha Josephson, who mistakenly got into a car she believed to be her Uber ride, has made national news — and rightly so. It’s a terrifying outcome to a common mistake, as anyone who has ever […]
Knock Knock. Who’s There? It’s Men.
From The Cut authored by Opheli Garcia Lawler: “Ladies, it’s time to dull it down at the office — our humor is apparently holding us back from advancing in our careers. No more clever jokes at the watercooler, no more funny one-liners to break the ice at meetings, no more witty remarks to ease any tension in […]
Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss?
From The Washington Post authored by Drew Harwell: “Like millions of women, Diana Diller was a devoted user of the pregnancy-tracking app Ovia, logging in every night to record new details on a screen asking about her bodily functions, sex drive, medications and mood. When she gave birth last spring, she used the app to […]
Wikipedia Isn’t Officially a Social Network. But the Harassment Can Get Ugly.
From The New York Times authored by Julia Jacobs: “…Studies on Wikipedia’s contributor base from several years ago estimated that fewer than 20 percent of editors were women. This research backed up an existing awareness in the Wikipedia community that female editors were seriously underrepresented, galvanizing activists who set out to recruit more women to […]
‘Balancing the Scales’: Have Women Lawyers’ Expectations Changed in the Past 50 Years?
From Attorney at Work authored by Kristin Tyler: “I’m in my 30s and I’m a single, childless associate who has no idea if I will be on partnership track. I have considered dropping out of the law entirely as I’m not sure if I can physically do this anymore. How can I communicate my needs […]
Lady Hale: at least half of UK judiciary should be female
From The Guardian authored by Diane Taylor: “At least half of the judiciary should be women, Britain’s most senior judge has said. Speaking at an event in the supreme court to mark the centenary of women’s entry into the legal profession, Brenda Hale, president of the supreme court and the first woman to take on that […]
Womansplaining the Pay Gap
From The New York Times authored by Maya Salam: “If I had a nickel for every time someone told me, “The gender pay gap is a myth,” I may have made back the income I’ve lost over the years for being a woman. It’s not a myth. And yet the nuance required to explain what […]
Berlin mass transit will give women a discount to highlight the gender pay gap
From Women in the World authored by WIWT Staff: “Berlin’s public transportation authority BVG will charge women 21 percent less for tickets to ride the city’s metro, buses, and trams on March 18 to help draw attention to the country’s gender pay gap. The discounted tickets will be available only on Germany’s Equal Pay Day, […]
Why equal parenting is still a myth
From Motherly authored by Diana Spaulding: “Like many modern couples, before getting married and having kids my husband and I spoke frequently about our plans to be true partners in life—to share in the household responsibilities equally and to co-parent our children in a way that defied the stereotypical norms of our society. Then we […]
