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, [...]
Posts Tagged "Rachel Dempsey"
Can Mothers Found Startups? (Hint: Yes)
June 17, 2012 – 10:00 am
“People expect mothers to be less committed and therefore give them less responsibility and pay them less from the start.” By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) An article in this weekend’s New York Times shed some more light on Silicon Valley’s worst-kept secret: it has a woman problem. Its [...]
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 [...]
The Hunger Games – A Hopeful Vision For The Future
March 23, 2012 – 8:00 am
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) I almost don’t want to write this post, because it brings attention to something I’d much rather be ignored. In the frenetic lead-up to the March 23 opening of The Hunger Games, there are articles about the movie’s restrictive costumes, about its “futuristic [...]
And The Oscar Goes To… A Man (Gender Bias at the Top)
January 29, 2012 – 5:00 am
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) The Academy Award nominees came out on Tuesday, and to no one’s surprise, this was not a good year for women in Hollywood. As they have been for the Oscars’ 83-year history, the (non-gendered) prestige categories — Best Picture and Best Director — [...]
How to Self-Promote Without Backlash (Women’s Career Advice)
October 26, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) As we discussed in our last post, a recent study by the non-profit Catalyst found that the best strategy to get a raise is to make your achievements known around the office. Seems simple enough, right? Let your co-workers know about a deal [...]
Why (Almost) Everything Women Are Told About Work Is Wrong
October 25, 2011 – 7:00 am
By Joan C. Williams & Rachel Dempsey (Authors, The New Girls’ Network) It’s not your fault. That’s the message of the career advice book Rachel and I are working on together, and that’s the message of this new report from nonprofit research group Catalyst. Despite all the advice women receive telling them that they fall [...]
