New Girls' Network

This week The New Girls’ Network received its first two submissions for our Ask The New Girls series. Dear WaWaWC, I originally called the group the Wise Women, but I intentionally included women from a wide range of ages, from their mid-20s to their 70s. The name Wise Women didn’t adequately express the mission of the group or […]

Advice literature for women is a crowded field and a predictable one. Most advice falls into one of two camps. Man up! The most common advice assumes that women’s problem is that they need to act more like men. Men tend to negotiate harder, act more confident, and go after plum assignments that will require them to stretch and swagger. […]

When people say things like there is no glass ceiling, or that the wage gap is a myth, it’s a little mystifying. The ceiling may be higher than it has been in the past – or it may be a labyrinth – but the numbers speak for themselves.

I am very happy to introduce the first post in our ongoing Q&A series. New Girl Mika Mayer chats with us about gender bias, her mentor, work/life, and loving her job. Mayer is a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP and co-founded the firm’s Venture Intellectual Property Group with senior partner Tom Ciotti.  What piece of […]

Marissa Mayer is naïve. Or so say a million mommy blogs, and I just can’t get this issue out of my head. Once the baby is born, say the blogs, she will see that a two-week maternity leave is not realistic. This is a typical gender war: women judging each other is one of the […]

Welcome to the New Girls’ Network. We’re a group of women committed to helping other women advance, inside and outside the office. Our goal is to educate women (and men) about the ways lingering gender bias infiltrates our everyday lives, and to provide strategies to overcome its effects. Over the next several months, this will […]