Last weekend, a group of determined NYU undergrads staged a 30-hour occupation of NYU’s Kimmel Center for University Life. The students, members of the Incarceration to Education Coalition (IEC), presented a simple demand: Ban the Box! Like many universities, NYU still asks applicants questions about their criminal and educational disciplinary histories. Literally, such questions appear next to a box on the screen:…
Americans dreaming of better work-life balance often set their sights on Scandinavia, and for good reason: The region boasts some of world’s most generous parental leave policies. Sweden, for example, permits new parents to take a full year of compensated leave, split between both parents. (The policy has inspired a photo project, “Swedish Dads,” which has received nearly two million views on Buzzfeed.) Denmark—which recently…
It should come as no surprise that campaigns fall victim to many problems facing traditional employers, like lack of representation of women, pay disparities, and sexual harassment. After all, campaigns are just another workplace. A Jezebel study last week revealed serious issues with both pay and representation for women on the major presidential campaigns, and a former Donald Trump staffer made headlines when she…
Most often I’d tuck it up the sleeve of my cardigan, turning my wrist in so it wouldn’t slip out. If I needed free hands, I’d hide it in my waistband. Dresses posed more of a problem. With no pockets and no long sleeves, I’d have to get creative. Worst case, it meant taking my whole, enormous handbag on the mortifying…
It has been known for some time that women suffer from higher rates of depression and anxiety than men. Recently, many news outlets reported on a study that shows that these higher rates are correlated with the pay gap. While women who had similar income to male counterparts had a similar risk of depression and anxiety, “[w]omen with lower incomes than men…
The recent big news in lawyer land is the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to replace Justice Scalia. He is, by all appearances, eminently qualified, a model public servant, and at least a tad (I say in jest) to the left of the late Justice Scalia. That should be…
Recently a vibrant debate about increasing the number of women in STEM fields has been taking place in academia, the private sector, and even the federal government. One of the biggest problems is ensuring that young women interested in the sciences stay in STEM fields throughout college and the rest of their careers. Currently, women are entering college STEM programs…
I met Sarah Fleisch Fink last year when my firm worked with the National Partnership for Women & Families on an amicus brief in support of Peggy Young, a worker challenging pregnancy discrimination before the U.S. Supreme Court in Young v. UPS. Sarah, senior policy counsel for workplace programs at the National Partnership, works on issues relating to paid family and medical leave, paid sick…