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 [...]
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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 [...]
The “Uppity Women” Of Silicon Valley
June 6, 2012 – 5:00 am
Gender discrimination is not going to change until there are more women in Silicon Valley. By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) Silicon Valley was hit hard last week when venture capitalist Ellen Pao‘s lawsuit against former employer Kleiner Perkins was made public. Without pretending any knowledge about the validity [...]
