Apologies for the swear words, but that’s the first phrase that came to mind when I read several articles that centered on women as bosses this week: Carol Smith’s New York Times article, “No Doubts: Women are Better Managers,” the blog on Feministing.com lamenting this and other generalizations, or the interesting piece by John Powers [...]
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Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don’t
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged business, gender stereotyping, leadership, management, women leaders, working mothers on August 6, 2009, | 2 Comments »
An Insult to Hardworking Career Mothers
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged career, gender equity, Motherhood Penalty, research, wage gap, Women and Work, work/life balance, working mothers, workplace discrimination on June 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
To me the most striking finding from a recent work-family research report that’s getting a lot of online buzz was that the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers is even more pronounced than the wage gap between women and men. Even though I decided early on that I didn’t want to have kids, that doesn’t [...]
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