Tag Archives: women in the workforce

Mother’s Day is Over – But Pregnancy Discrimination Isn’t.

By aclu | Published: May 16, 2013
TweetBy Vania Leveille, ACLU Washington Legislative Office & Lenora M. Lapidus, ACLU Women’s Rights Project Women make up almost half the workforce today, and, if they become pregnant, most will work throughout their pregnancy. Given this reality, you probably think the stories below are works of a bygone era. Well, you’d be wrong: A woman [...]
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In defense of crying at work

By Amy S. Choi | Published: March 29, 2013
TweetSheryl Sandberg says in Lean In that it’s cool to cry at work. Anne Kreamer reports in her book It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace (2011) that 41 percent of women and 9 percent of men had cried in front of others at work and it had not impacted them negatively. Dr. Peggy Drexler, in a [...]
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Chart of the Day: Only 30 percent of new jobs have gone to women

By Maya | Published: February 11, 2013
Tweet According to these NYT charts, of the 5.3 million jobs added during the economic recovery over the last few years, only 30 percent of them went to women. In part, that’s because more jobs held by men were lost in the recession (remember the endless talk about the “hecession“?) But, Pat Garfola notes at ThinkProgress, “austerity [...]
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