New Girls' Network

Earlier this week, I was in a meeting with a professor when the issue of women’s advancement in the professional world came up. I was in the process of making some vague, general statement when she suddenly asked: “Have things gotten worse?” It turned out that she had recently spoken with a student who was worried […]

Female breadwinners: Are you stuck with a “second shift”? Monday’s disheartening SCOTUS decision strikes twin blows against women and minorities in the workplace. A great listen: Dear Harvard, My Career Deserved More Respect. While fathers in academia enjoy a career advantage, female academics hit the maternal wall. Women are more engaged in work than men. […]

Co-written with Joan C. Williams. “My small contribution to feminism is leaving the office at 5:15 PM three times a week to pick up my daughter…and not hiding it.” You might expect that these are the words of a working mother who, after too little sleep and too many people wondering “how she does it,” […]

How raising the minimum wage would help close the gender wage gap. “When we dial back our voices, we also dial back our chances to prove the bias wrong.” Do you agree with this author’s take on the Tightrope? The Huffington Post discusses translating widespread desire for workplace flexibility to a cohesive mothers’ movement. Surprising […]

Sociologist Philip Cohen talks unmarried parenthood, lack of opportunity. “On doing the emotional work of being a male feminist.” Have we left Millennial men out of Lean In debate? Apparently, not all of them. For lovers (and haters) of Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal everywhere. Gorgeous illustrations of women in Congress.

Co-written by Katherine Ullman. It’s been a rough couple of weeks for women in STEM. Most shockingly, Adria Richards, former developer evangelist at SendGrid, was fired after she publicly reported two men (one of whom was also fired) for making lewd jokes in earshot at a PyCon Conference. Richards has since received nasty messages for speaking […]