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A Very Bad Idea For Achieving Gender Equality

Anne-Marie Slaughter’s 2012 article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” became one of the most popular in The Atlantic’s history. Slaughter’s message, based on her two years in a high-level job at the U. S. State Department, was that a woman cannot successfully juggle a highly demanding career and the needs of two teenage boys. Many women across the country seemed to respond with a resounding “Damn right.” We, however, found Slaughter’s article superficial and its conclusions unsupported. In Breaking...

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Clinton Did It; Should You Wave the “Mom Flag” in a Professional Setting?

Hillary Clinton's campaign has recently touted her softer side - positioning her as a mother and grandmother. Should you also do it in a professional setting? The Chicago Tribune asked Andie about what is entailed in "waving the mom flag at work." Andie talks about the Goldilocks Dilemma, and the difficulty most women face when discussing their motherhood at work. Read the full article here....

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We Enjoyed Ezra Klein’s (The Vox) Observations Regarding the Wildly Different Impressions of Hillary Clinton

We enjoyed reading Ezra Klein's recent passage appearing in Vox. Not only does Ezra provide astute investigative reporting, we admire his fearlessness in expressing the truths he found. We are particularly impressed with Ezra's identification of the gender biases that exist among this year’s election, and generally among women and men in the public’s eye. As our followers know, we have also commented on the many stereotypes that Hillary embodies, and the difficult balance aspiring women must strike between communal (female) and agentic (male)...

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Are U.S. Millennial Men Just as Sexist as Their Dads?

Millennials, those Americans now between 16 and 36 years old, are often spoken of as if they’re ushering in a new era of enlightened interpersonal relations. For example, in 2013 Time predicted Millennials would “save us all” because they are “more accepting of differences…in everyone.” That same year, The Atlantic stated that Millennials hold the “historically unprecedented belief that there are no inherently male or female roles in society.” And in 2015 the Huffington Post wrote that Millennial men are “likely to see women as equals.” If these...

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Silencing Women’s Public Voices

At the beginning of the Odyssey, Penelope enters the great hall and begins to speak. Her son, Telemachus, quickly tells her to return to her room because speech is “the business of men.” And ever since, men have sought to silence women’s public voices. Indeed, male hostility toward women’s participation in public discourse is far more common today than many of us are likely to be aware. For example, a male attorney recently admonished his opposing counsel that it wasn’t...

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by Andie & Al

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The Goldilocks Dilemma: Why Career Advancement is So Much Harder for Women Than Men and What Women Can Do to Change That

America’s workplaces, even in our best-intentioned organizations, are riddled with bias against women leaders. As a result, women seeking to advance in careers — particularly careers in traditionally male fields — face both negative and agentic biases. Negative bias is the result of the traditional feminine stereotype that a woman is or should be “communal,” that is, warm, caring, and gentle. A woman who conforms to the communal stereotype at work is likely to be seen as pleasant, but not...

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by Andie & Al

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How to Get Ahead at Work With Attuned Gender Communication

It is unlikely any of us will see workplaces that are completely free of gender bias in the foreseeable future. No matter how well-intentioned an organization may be, there are inescapable gender roles and expectations that are established by our society from the time we are born. We believe, however, that career opportunities for all employees (both women and men) can be drastically improved if everyone — managers, entry-level employees, women, and men — became more attuned to gender communication. Whether...

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Former ABA president Laurel Bellows said it well: “Women are often labeled as greedy and aggressive.”

Commenting on the latest salary statistics for lawyers, former American Bar Association president Laurel Bellows said it well: "women are often labeled as greedy and aggressive and not team driven when asking for a well-deserved raise and bonus." In contrast, "men who ask are viewed as strong and good negotiators hard workers worthy of consideration for an increase." We couldn't agree more, and refer to this as the "Goldilocks dilemma:" a woman frequently gets punished for being aggressive, yet she is ignored...

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by Andie & Al

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Stepping into Avery’s Journey and Breaking Through Bias

In this column, we welcome our first guest columnist, Bethany Whittles Harris. Ms. Harris is an associate at Mossing & Navarre, LLC, where her practice includes prosecuting medical malpractice, complex personal injury, and nursing home negligence cases. I recently agreed to participate in GlassCeiling.com’s professional development seminar “Avery’s Journey” as a walk-on, though I had no idea into what, exactly, I was walking. All I knew was that the program would count for continuing legal education credits (CLE’s) and would involve skits based on...

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The Disparity in Women’s and Men’s Career Achievements

Women’s and men’s careers have starkly different outcomes. Although women make up 45 percent of entry-level white-collar jobs in the United States, they are only 37 percent of managers, 32 percent of senior managers, 27 percent of vice presidents, 23 percent of senior vice presidents, 17 percent of C-suite executives, and 5 percent of CEOs at S&P 500 companies. The two principal reasons for this gender gap at work are gender bias and women’s own self-limiting beliefs about themselves and...

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