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by Gender News staff
on Monday, May 19, 2014 - 9:54am
Perhaps nowhere is the stalled gender revolution more apparent than in the executive and leadership ranks of business, government and education. For the past thirty years, women have surpassed their...
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by Kathryne M. Young with Lelia Glass
on Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 9:38am
When Kenji Yoshino began his first job as a law professor, he was openly gay and wrote about sexual orientation and constitutional rights. One day, a colleague pulled him aside...
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by Mana Nakagawa
on Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 10:21am
In 1980, women held about 25 percent of management positions in the U.S.—a figure that increased to nearly 40 percent by 2012. As women become more visible in these high-status occupations,...
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by Ashley Farmer
on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 11:21am
You might take for granted that your doctor considers your gender and sex when assessing your health or recommending treatments. But as recently as twenty-five years ago, medical research and health...
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by Lelia Glass
on Thursday, March 13, 2014 - 10:40am
“Stand up if you are the first person in your family to graduate from college!” The year is 2034, as imagined in sociologist Marianne Cooper’s visionary essay for The Shriver Report. A fictional...
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by Annelise Heinz
on Monday, March 3, 2014 - 12:22pm
Four male academic leaders were joined by a female peer during a lively panel held Feb. 26. Since women hold 22 percent of tenured faculty positions at Stanford, this ratio might appear unremarkable...
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by Ashley Farmer
on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 9:17am
Over the last fifty years the composition of the workforce has changed significantly due to an influx of women into the workplace, the delayed retirement of many workers, and the rise in dual-earning...
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by Lindsey Trimble O'Connor
on Monday, February 17, 2014 - 7:31am
Starting this year, workers in the state of Vermont and the City of San Francisco have the right to make flexible work requests without fear of employer retaliation. These provisions are the first...
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by Adrienne Rose Johnson
on Monday, February 3, 2014 - 9:30pm
A woman’s road to the c-suite is full of hurdles. Her input in a meeting is ignored. She negotiates skillfully, and she's told she’s full of herself. While these roadblocks may feel like...
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by Ashley Farmer
on Monday, December 9, 2013 - 10:45am
Debora Spar is many things: She’s the president of Barnard College. She was among the youngest women to earn tenure at the Harvard Business School. She is the author of six books. She is...
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