You may have heard the great news by now — on Saturday, actor Emma Watson, known worldwide for playing super-smart and feisty Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films, spoke
Not Every Company Struggles With Gender Equity
Last week, amid the posts and news articles about Women’s Equality Day on August 26, it might have been easy to miss the impressive announcement from Gap, Inc.
Here it is,
Successfully Skirting the Boys Club
“In most industries, discriminating on the basis of gender, race, or age would be considered illegal. Yet in the tech industry, venture capitalists routinely show off
Yes! Signs of a Culture Evolving
Sometimes when you go looking for information, you find more than you bargained for. I experienced this recently when I read about a study by a University of Chicago sociologist
Open Letter from a Frustrated Daughter
Dear Dad,
You always told me I could do anything I set my mind to. I believed you, and I have always wanted to make you proud. But now I really
Study Confirms Gender Bias in STEM Hiring
In 2005, Larry Summers, the president of Harvard (then, not now), gave a speech in which he declared that the reason there were so few women in STEM fields (science, technology,
I’m on the ‘Ban Bossy’ Bandwagon
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has been circling the globe and stirring things up in the year since her best-selling book Lean In was published. People, especially in the media, have