Gender Pay Gap Underestimates Economic Inequality
by Joan Williams The gender pay gap is standard measure of women’s economic inequality. At the dawn of second-wave feminism, it was 59 cents: women earned 59 cents for every dollar men earned. Today it’s up to 77 cents, according to the National Committee on Pay Equity. That’s progress, right? Here’s even more rosy news: [...]
...read moreSweet Serendipity
Funny that my spiral into self-reflection (and slight self-blaming) coincided with my time as a guest blogger here at Feministe. Actually, it isn’t funny at all – things in my life usually tends to work in an oddly serendipitous manner and having you all here to help me reflect has been incredible. From what’s been [...]
...read moreGetting More Women to Tech
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Shira Ovide, one of its media reporters, about the lack of women in the leadership among tech companies and talked about the protests over the separately branded TEDWomen conference that was announced last month. Short version: There are too few women in tech. Only about [...]
...read moreOn Generosity
This is the third in a series examining issues raised by a blog post from Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck, where he suggested that women’s interest in closing the gender pay gap amounted to a “fetish for money,” and the subsequent apologies for it by himself and Chamber COO David Chavern. Part [...]
...read moreIt’s Money, Honey
Firstly, thanks to everyone who commented on my post about self-sabotage. So many of you had interesting things to say (I’m definitely going to get checked out for ADHD) and the feedback really contributed to my ability to think about how to start making positive changes and get rid of self-defeating habits. It also got [...]
...read moreThe Motherhood Discounting
This is the second in a series examining a post written by Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck, and the subsequent apologies for it by himself and Chamber COO David Chavern. Peck decided to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the recognition of women’s right to vote by writing that the well-documented gender pay [...]
...read moreHey you, get out of my way!
I’ve always been a high achiever. One of the only people in my high school class to move farther than five hours away for college, I attended a top ten school then moved to New York to start my real-person life. I’m simultaneously proud of what I’ve accomplished (woohoo! Go, me!) and frustrated about where [...]
...read moreThings will be calmer by then…
Hey there, Feministers! I’m Tyla, and the kind ladies here at Feministe have asked me to guest blog for two weeks. I’m beyond thrilled to be here, even though I’m a little late. You see, my guest blogging stint was supposed to start on Monday. When I was asked earlier this summer what weeks would [...]
...read moreIf you weren’t having babies, you (mostly) wouldn’t get cheated at work
Chamber of Commerce Senior Communications Director Brad Peck decided to commemorate the 90th anniversary of suffrage, the recognition of women’s right to vote, by suggesting last week that women who want equal pay have a “fetish for money,” and recommending that women focus our energies on “choosing the right partner at home.” His post was [...]
...read moreProfessions and Motherhood
One of A’s current favorite books (to the point where I had to hide it this morning because I couldn’t stand to read it again today*) is a reworking of Hush, Little Baby. In the author’s note, the author and illustrator explains that she never liked the materialism of promising a child diamonds, livestock, and [...]
...read moreOnce more with feeling: sexual harassment is not a compliment
I’ve got mixed feelings about Slate’s advice columnist Emily Yoffe who writes under the pseudonym Dear Prudence. The second letter in her column this week reminds me why. First the letter: I am a female law student who is employed for the summer (and potentially for the school year) at a small firm that I’m [...]
...read moreThe Shape of the Problem
What I wanted to talk about today is employment. I am currently unemployed, and have known very few trans people offline who weren’t in the same situation. It’s difficult to really get a true sense of the employment situation for trans people, since most studies are small, and few if any actually separate the sexes [...]
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