But Don’t Just Believe Us… (Recent News Articles Arranged Newest First)
Title: Shattering Glass Ceilings
How landmark cases against Novartis and Walmart are wending their way through court and changing the way we all think about work.
Author: Jesse Ellison
Publication: Newsweek.com
Date: 15 June 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/15/shattering-glass-ceilings.html
Title: The Richer Sex- Companies had better cater to women.
Author: Rana Foroohar
Publication: Newsweek.com
Date: 13 June 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/13/the-richer-sex.html
Title: What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe About Gender Equality in the Workplace
Author: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Publication: Bloomberg.com
Date: 21 May 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/harvardbusiness?sid=H67ee3e47e719f00415f7e84f12c24dde
Title: Novartis Fined $250 Million in Sex Discrimination Suit
Author: Reuters
Publication: nytimes.com
Date: 19 May 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/20/business/20drug.html
Title: Women Are the Market, Not Just a Niche
Author: Carol Hymowitz
Publication: Forbes.com
Date: 30 April 2010
Title: Lawsuit exposes Wal-Mart to billions in potential damages
Authors: Alexandria Sage and Jonathan Stempel
Publication: Reuters.com
Date: 27 April 2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63P42920100427
Title: Ripe for Change: ION’s New Report Highlights Business Case for Diversity> The Glass Hammer
Author: Tina Vasquez
Publication: www.TheGlassHammer.com
Date: 13 April 2010
Title: We Need Women Leaders. How Do We Get Them? -Creating equal opportunities for women starts with a willingness to change the status quo.
Author: Barbara Adachi
Publication: Forbes
Date: 9 April 2010
Title: Wall Street Women Still Knocking on Men’s Rooms
Author: Susan Antilla
Publications: BusinessWeek and Bloomberg
Date: 7 April 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=atcaoIcCN72k
Title: Feminism or Bust -Who needs feminism when we’ve already won the war? Oh wait—we haven’t.
Author: By Jessica Bennett
Publication: Newsweek
Date: 23 March 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/id/235299
Title: Are We There Yet? Sexism at Work: Young Women, Newsweek, and Gender -In 1970, 46 women filed a landmark gender-discrimination case. Their employer was NEWSWEEK. Forty years later, their contemporary counterparts question how much has actually changed.
Authors: Jessica Bennett, Jesse Ellison and Sarah Ball
Publication: Newsweek
Date: 19 March 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/id/235220
Title: Where women don’t rule, globally: A scarcity of board seats
Author: Patricia Sellers
Publication: Fortune
Date: 26 March 2010
Title: Gender discrimination linked to poor project management
Author: Ellen Messmer
Publication: BusinessWeek
Date: 22 March 2010
Title: ‘Investing In Equality Is Profitable’ – Norway’s first male Minister of Children and Equality talks about why women and men should have equal power in the boardroom and the nursery.
Author: Sara Reistad-Long
Publication: Forbes
Date: 9 March 2010
Title: International Women’s Day Is No Laughing Matter -Forget the pep rally, Mr. President, and get down to business on effecting real change.
Author: Meghan Casserly
Publication: Forbes
Date: 8 March 2010
Title: Why Women Are the Biggest Emerging Market
By: Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Publication: Harvard Business Review Blogs
Date: 8 March 2010
http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/hewlett/2010/03/leverage_your_female_demograph.html
Title: Pipeline’s Broken Promise
Author: Catalyst, Inc. (Nancy M. Carter, Ph.D., and Christine Silva)
Publication: Catalyst, Inc.
Date: 27 February 2010
http://www.catalyst.org/publication/372/pipelines-broken-promise
Title: Women’s Wage Wars -Women, even those with M.B.A.s, earn less and accept lower-level positions than men. Is it ever going to change?
Author: Mary Ellen Egan
Publication: Forbes
Date: 23 February 2010
Title: Women M.B.A.s Continue to Lag in Pay, Promotions
Author: Diana Middleton
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Date: 22 February 2010
Title: For women in America, equality is still an illusion – Every day, we hear about the horrors women endure in other countries: rape in Darfur, genital mutilation in Egypt, sex trafficking in Eastern Europe. We shake our heads, forward e-mails and send money.
Author: Jessica Valenti
Publication: The Washington Post
Date: 19 February 2010
Title: Companies need to recruit the older woman
Author: Michael Skapinker
Publication: The Financial Times
Date: 1 February 2010
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/00160752-0f69-11df-a450-00144feabdc0.html
Title: Study Asks: Who Has Easy Path to Top?
Author: Sarah E. Needleman
Publication: The Wall Street Journal
Date: 28 January 2010
Title: Working Woman’s Burden -Females have more jobs than ever–so why are they so unhappy?
Author: Mark Rice
Publication: Forbes
Date: 8 January 2010
Title: The Late-Night Glass Ceiling -Why are there no late-night female talk-show hosts?
Author: Kiri Blakeley
Publication: Forbes
Date: 26 January 2010
Title: How Women Are Getting On European Boards (And Why U.S. Companies Should Care) -An Interview with Elin Hurvenes, founder of the Professional Boards Forum, on how companies around the world can recruit female board members.
Author: Judith H. Dobrzynski
Publication: Forbes
Date: 14 December 2009
Title: Why Men Don’t Promote Women More -Because women aren’t pushy enough.
Author: Shaun Rein
Publication: Forbes
Date: 11 December 2009
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/11/women-job-promotion-leadership-careers-rein.html?partner=email
Title: What Women Want Now
Author: Nancy Gibbs
Publication: Time
Date: 14 October 2009
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1930277_1930145_1930309,00.html
Title: Why more women don’t get MBAs -Women make up roughly half of the U.S. workforce but only about one-third of graduate business students. The nonprofit Forté Foundation would like to change that.
Author: Anne Fisher
Publication: CNN.com
Date: 18 September 2009
http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/17/news/economy/women_mba_business_school.fortune/index.htm
Title: The Female Economy
Author: Michael J. Silverstein and Kate Sayre
Publication: Harvard Business Review
Date: September 2009
http://hbr.org/2009/09/the-female-economy/ar/1
Title: Women in Ohio falling behind -Study shows state lags others in pay, health, education
Author: Mark Niquette
Publication: The Columbus Dispatch
Date: 27 August 2009
Title: The female advantage: A new reason for businesses to promote women: it’s more profitable
Author: Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Publication: The Boston Globe
Date: 3 May 2009
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/05/03/the_female_advantage/?s_campaign=8315
We need more than just equity in pay, a halt to physical and verbal abuse against women generated by objectification, but equal representation at the tables where decisions are being made that effect our lives.
What we’ve gotten is a patch here, a patch there to deal with the symptoms of sexism. The Scandinavian countries treat women far better and we need to learn from them. Fifty-three percent of Spain’s cabinet is comprised of women, 50% of Sweden’s cabinet is comprised of women, and 38% of Germany’s cabinet is comprised of women, according to the Centre for Women and Democracy. There are four million more women in the US than men; we have little more than 25% representation in Congress. Out-of-sight has led to out-of-mind; The Status of Women in the USA report proves this: http://www.iwpr.org/States2004/SWS2004/index.htm
Here are some additional links that discuss the need for change and how to go about it:
How Women Are Portrayed in Politics
http://www.portrayingpolitics.net
The Challenge to Act
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/I920ChallengetoAct.pdf
Healers of Our Time:Women, Faith and Justice
http://www.iwpr.org/pdf/healersofourtime.pdf
Who Makes the News?
http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
And my petition to move the discussion from quick fixes to genuine “justice for all”: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/minister-for-women-equalities-in-usa
We need more than just equity in pay, a halt to physical and verbal abuse against women generated by objectification, but equal representation at the tables where decisions are being made that effect our lives.
+1
Agree that abuse of any sort is unacceptable and hope that equity in pay gives women more options in leaving situations of abuse in addition to the obvious other benefits. Gloria Steinem said the other night that, until we have economic equality, we won’t have political equality.
Thanks for this really thoughtful response.