Etsy CTO Kellan Elliott-McCrea: “There’s a decent chance, based on their experience in industry, that your workplace is going to suck” for women, making it hard to recruit women and increase diversity. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) & Katherine Ullman (Program Associate, Center for WorkLife Law) It’s been a rough couple [...]
Posts Tagged "Joan C. Williams"
Shame On Those Queen Bees?
March 28, 2013 – 6:00 am
An essay in The Wall Street Journal recycled a tired trope: “queen bees” in the office are making the lives of other women a living hell. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) & Katherine Ullman (Program Associate, Center for WorkLife Law) An essay this month in The Wall Street Journal recycled a [...]
Women Don’t Negotiate Because They’re Not Idiots
February 1, 2013 – 7:00 am
Women do better in situations with “low structural ambiguity”: where there is more information and lower uncertainty about the potential salary range and appropriate norms for negotiation. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) If I hear once more that the reason for the wage gap is that women don’t negotiate, I may [...]
The New Girls’ Network: Binders Upon Binders Of Stolen Ideas
October 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
What Romney did was a very public example of “The Stolen Idea”- a phenomenon women regularly face at work. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) & Katherine Ullman (Program Associate, Center for WorkLife Law) “Binders full of women.” We all know what Mitt Romney meant during this week’s presidential debate when he [...]
The New Girls’ Network: ‘The Polite Little Girl in the Room’?
October 5, 2012 – 6:00 am
How to break out of being the dutiful daughter? It’s not that easy. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) Every year The Center for WorkLife Law, which I direct, runs a leadership academy for women law firm partners. One key message we send is that sometimes what it takes to make partner [...]
Best Anti-Poverty Program? Effective Scheduling Of Hourly Workers
September 25, 2012 – 10:17 am
What I’ve proposed is software that will allow an employer to achieve “schedule equilibrium”. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) Susan Lambert, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and the author of a much-discussed op-ed in Wednesday’s New York Times, once told me that she gets [...]
Back To Work, With Cigars
September 8, 2012 – 10:00 am
Criticism of fathers who sought leave was harsh and very much in the open. This needs improvement. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) The Labor Day op-ed I co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter was written before I read a stupendous, and sobering, article by Erin Kelly, a sociologist at The University of Minnesota, [...]
The New Girls’ Network: The Science Of Office Politics
August 29, 2012 – 6:00 am
Mothers are 79% less likely to be hired, only half as likely to be promoted, offered an average of $11,000 less in salary and held to higher performance and punctuality standards than an identical woman without children. By Joan C. Williams (Author, The New Girls’ Network) Advice literature for women is a crowded field and [...]
I Don’t Want Your Life
August 15, 2012 – 9:00 am
Women judging each other is one of the key mechanisms for the delivery of gender bias. By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) 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, [...]
Anne-Marie Slaughter Vs. Sheryl Sandberg: Both Right
June 23, 2012 – 8:12 am
“…the best advice, given the sorry state of the work world, is to work really, really hard before you have children so that you have the skills – and the bargaining power – to continue your career on your own terms after you have children.” By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New [...]
