Tag Archives: feminism
First Person Friday: A Working Mother’s Working Mother
Today’s First Person Friday comes to us from The Mama Bee’s mama: Grandma Bee. She doesn’t have a blog (yet), but from time to time she comments and contributes here at TMB. Reading The Mama Bee, I sometimes wonder whether … Continue reading
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Why is Women’s Progress Plateauing?
Just before Mother’s Day Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation, wrote an op-ed in The Nation: The Gender Equity Bubble Goes Pop!. Lerner argues that a profound lack of support services … Continue reading
Women and Business Reporting: Separate But Unequal
Earlier today an article came across my twitter feed from ForbesWoman titled “Worst Words to Say at Work: These nine words and phrases will make you sound noncommittal, undependable and untrustworthy“. The article didn’t specifically mention women anywhere, so I’m … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Politics
Embracing My Inner Self-Aggrandizing Jerk
Over the weekend Jon Prial at Balanced Bits drew my attention to a terrific report by NPR’s On The Media, tweeting “Knew it was MamaBee fodder as soon as I heard it.” The piece was nominally about women in media … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Work
Women and BigLaw: Yes, Virginia, it is Sexism.
Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal’s LawBlog posted some thoughts on why women don’t stay at law firms. The article identified work/life and mentorship as two areas that law firms could improve to retain female talent, and floated that … Continue reading
Pushing Ourselves to the Top of the Corporate Ladder
Last week Forbes touted a new study from Bain & Company indicating that 80% of 1,800 polled businesspeople — men and women — say they are convinced of the benefits of gender parity at all levels. Orit Gadiesh and Julie … Continue reading
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Why Gender Quotas Are Bad for Business and for Feminism
A few weeks ago CV Harquail at Authentic Organizations drew my attention to this New York Times article about Norway’s policy requiring that 40% of corporate board members be women. On its face, the legislation seems like a good thing … Continue reading
Elevating the Work/Life Conversation
Today kicks off a two-week blog series on “Work/Life in Our Communities” coordinated by Fem 2.0 and including some of my favorite people and organizations. Each day will include a radio conversation and posts from some of the web’s most … Continue reading
Filed under News, Politics, Working Mom Blogs
But Women Just Don’t Want to Work…
Last week my post “Looking at Lists” struck a chord with some of my favorite cyber-friends. Although many agreed with the idea that fixing our corporate culture will take more women in top jobs, some also mentioned that they had … Continue reading
