Regular readers of this blog are very familiar with Young v. UPS, a Supreme Court case about pregnancy discrimination. Here at Shattering the Ceiling, we are excited about the case – and about the outcome. My colleagues have written here about why accommodating pregnant women is good for American families – and good for business and about why the Supreme Court’s…
In a recent article published in The Atlantic, Sophie Gilbert, who is the Senior Editor for the magazine’s Culture section, reviewed a recently published collection of essays titled Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed, which relates the personal choices of sixteen individuals to not have children. As Gilbert relates, the collection’s project is to “dismantle the assumption of selfishness” surrounding the decision not to have…
Spoiler alerts Fans seem to be all over the map on the “Mad Men” series finale. When I watched it, I was candidly a little disappointed. But reflecting on it, I think that some of that disappointment speaks to the real world. In other words, Matthew Weiner, the show’s creator, seems to have captured the frustrations of the era. And…
The marginalization of women in Hollywood has gotten a lot of attention lately. The Sony hacking scandal revealed glaring gender disparities in pay among movie stars and studio executives alike, and Patricia Arquette’s controversial Oscar acceptance speech demanded wage equality for women. Now the spotlight has shifted to the discrimination faced by female directors after the ACLU publicly urged intervention by the federal agency…
In recent Q&A, I talked with Debrah Farnell, a financial advisor, about how she counsels women to make the most of their money (a subject that Kate K. has also posted on recently). I asked her whether she counsels her clients in talking about money at their job. She mentioned that her friend Anne Collier, executive coach and trainer and founder of Arudia,…
In New York City, nail salons are ubiquitous, and many women who live or work in the City routinely partake in the affordable luxury of cheap manicures. But a shocking exposé by the New York Times (posted here and here) shows that cheap manicures come at a very high price for the women who toil in New York City’s nail salons. According to…
Do you remember RateMyProfessors.com? If you attended a college or university in the 21st century in the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom, it was likely an invaluable tool for selecting your classes. The site provided a 1-5 scale in categories such as easiness; helpfulness; clarity; the degree of textbook use; and the less refined yet often visited category of hotness. …
Many readers may have seen the popular story being shared on the internet, with the caption, “This Is What It Looks Like When Men Are Allowed To Take 480 Days Of Paternity Leave” (although that article could just have easily been captioned, “This is What It Looks Like When Humans Are Allowed to Take 480 Days of Parental Leave,” given that access…
It had been 18 years since Donna Kassman had looked for a job, and the search wasn’t going well for the veteran attorney. Eventually she would abandon her search and start her own business in her Bedford home. Kassman is a University of Michigan graduate who also has a law degree from Hofstra University. For nearly two decades she worked…
Ever since I was in high school, I’ve spent a significant amount of my free time reading. I read in a range of subjects, including novels, history, and cultural criticism, but my favorite category is biography. This lifelong hobby made Chloe Angyal’s recent article, “Why Don’t Men Read Books By Women,” all the more unsettling. Angyal begins her piece by describing…