This week’s post on the Wall Street Journal’s blog The Juggler, entitled A Father’s Decision to Stay Home, provoked an impassioned discussion. The posting referred to an article in Men’s Vogue this month in which award-winning New York Times correspondent Charlie LeDuff discussed his decision to give up his career (at least temporarily) and be […]
Archive for November 2007
filed under Breaking the Glass Ceiling
November 13th, 2007, 9:06 am
“Tell Me About Yourself…”
In a job interview, could there be any other four words in the English language so terrifying, fraught with meaning, and just plain paralyzing?
When asked this question, it’s no wonder that most people tend to freeze up, get nervous, and then overcompensate by talking too much. But that’s exactly the scenario that could cost you […]
filed under Expert Answers
Hooray for Paula Radcliffe! “I definitely feel stronger after my pregnancy,” the champion marathon runner said, after she sprinted to victory in the final stages of last Sunday’s gruelling 26.2 mile race.
Paula’s fought her way back from bitter failure (Athens Olympics 2004, when stomach problems felled her) and injury (spinal stress fractures and […]
filed under Intrepid Women Series
In this second installment of The Glass Hammer “Best Of … Series,” we build on our popular piece about the Best Work Flats to bring you an advanced segment: the Best Work High Heels. This category is substantially trickier than flats, because flats are (almost) always comfy, while heels rarely are. Thus, these three styles […]
filed under Intrepid Women Series
November 8th, 2007, 8:54 am
Can Women Win? And Do We Even Want To?
“Women can’t win.” This is one of the conclusions reached by Lisa Belkin, a writer for the New York Times, in her recent article “The Feminine Critique.” After reading the article, you may well agree, particularly when you consider her analysis about how differently men and women are viewed in the workplace, even when behaving […]
filed under Breaking the Glass Ceiling
November 7th, 2007, 7:00 am
Redheads in the Workplace: The Cost of “Gingerism” at Work
This posting is one in a series of our Expert Answers, where a thorny problem is posed in the form of a question, for one of our Glass Hammer resident experts to answer and explain the issue to our readers. Caroline Doran, an employment law specialist with Rooks Rider Solicitors in London, has been providing legal […]
filed under Expert Answers
This is a story of two women. In New York, a successful young woman in finance spends her days at a major investment bank structuring billion dollar loans to finance telecom deals. In Calcutta, a poor young woman who spends her days as a street sweeper takes out a $50 loan to buy enough supplies […]
filed under Breaking the Glass Ceiling, Money Talks
With the Women on Wall Street (WOWS) conference still fresh in my head, I started thinking about the professional metamorphosis I have made in the past year. One marker of this change is a Meet the Press event that a respectable Chicago newspaper coordinates annually. Last year I walked in wearing a suit […]
filed under Analysts and Associates
These days, it’s easy to watch the news and get depressed. War, natural disasters, and human rights abuses abound every time you turn on the TV, and its easy to just tune out all of the suffering going on around you, head to an air-conditioned office and surround yourself with comfortingly well-dressed people whose biggest […]
filed under News
November 1st, 2007, 7:00 am
Why Are Women Being Short-Changed at Work?
Graphic:personneltoday
Most women over the age of 18 working in the UK earn less than their male colleagues in the same jobs. Unfortunately, it does not look like this will change any time soon.
According to a report issued by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) in July 2007, it will take 200 years for there to be […]
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