If you're a parent who wants to inspire your daughter to break down gender barriers with her eventual career choice, here's one way to go about it: New research shows that little girls who see their dads participating in household chores are more likely to want jobs in higher paying, traditionally male dominated… » 5/29/14 1:00pm 5/29/14 1:00pm

Many of us enjoy the luxury of working at a desk job. I mean, I don't have a desk job so much as I have a couch/kitchen table job (#blogger), but I relate nonetheless. And while I do miss the days of slingin' lattés Cocktail-style, chatting up the 'regulars,' making those little leaf designs in the foam, and… » 5/26/14 12:10pm 5/26/14 12:10pm

Question to all the lady lawyers out there (sorry, I like the alliteration): How often do your superiors lecture you on your professional dress? Judging by all these tips we get about memos that lecture women on appropriate office wear, it's all the damn time. » 3/19/14 5:20pm 3/19/14 5:20pm

If you love unicorns and questionable labor practices, then you'll be happy to know that Lisa Frank, Inc. has a position open in its art department. » 1/03/14 12:50pm 1/03/14 12:50pm

A new year, a new you. Stop hating your life and start being a panda keeper at the zoo. » 12/31/13 12:00pm 12/31/13 12:00pm

Since the late 1970s, the wage gap between men and women in China has been growing steadily, thanks mostly to the country's shift to a more market-oriented economy. Well, that and some good old fashioned gender bias, of course. » 12/30/13 2:30pm 12/30/13 2:30pm

We already knew that, as of 2011, women in the workplace (and on TV!) were missing female mentors. WARNING: I'm about to talk about Lean In. OK. I'm doing it now. Sheryl Sandberg suggests that men are also reticent to tutor the new female employee on the block, because they're afraid that everyone will assume they're… » 5/04/13 1:00pm 5/04/13 1:00pm

Is there a way to make this required viewing for every single kid in America? And some adults, too? It's just so awesome. » 11/09/12 3:15pm 11/09/12 3:15pm

Research into the blissful lives of the mind that married academic couples are surely leading has discovered that women are more likely to subvert the importance of their careers to their husbands' careers. Meanwhile, men in dual-career academic relationships were steadfastly self-aggrandizing. » 8/09/12 12:10pm 8/09/12 12:10pm

Even though women may be joining big, mahogany-redolent law firms with less zeal than in the not-so-distant past, those already working at such law firms are being promoted to equity partnerships at the about the speed at which a spoonful of old honey travels from the ass of a little plastic bear to its nose. Still,… » 7/24/12 10:25am 7/24/12 10:25am

Men who huff paint or gas all day while on the job should probably be extra cautious about what they're exposing their precious sperm to, especially in the three months leading up to any potential baby-making ritual. A new study has found that fathers who work in certain sperm-jeopardizing fields have a higher risk of… » 7/19/12 12:30pm 7/19/12 12:30pm

Chances are if you've pursued any kind of corporate career, you've felt the pressure to stay late at the office, to log the same number or more hours than your colleagues, even if it meant sacrificing time spent at home with your family or out with your friends or sitting at home in bed alone catching up on all the… » 4/06/12 10:00am 4/06/12 10:00am

Though Republicans have traditionally talked a big game about entrepreneuring and innovating and whatnot, the uninhibited flow of infants from vaginas, it seems, has finally supplanted the uninhibited flow of money into personal checking accounts as the foundation of the GOP's platform. Otherwise, how could we… » 3/29/12 1:10pm 3/29/12 1:10pm

You know how working moms are always taking time off because their kid is sick or there's a school play or something, and that's why they're just unreliable workers who can't be trusted with real responsibility. Yeah, that's bullshit — and there's data to prove it. » 2/13/12 5:30pm 2/13/12 5:30pm

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a report on employment and parental leave for first-time mothers, showing how little time women now take off when they have kids. The data also show that the least-educated women in America have the least access to paid leave. » 11/30/11 11:50am 11/30/11 11:50am

A new study provides a sure-to-be-controversial explanation for why women are less likely than men to pursue careers in science and engineering: exposure to male sex hormones in utero appears linked to a later interest in "things" rather than people. » 9/05/11 1:00pm 9/05/11 1:00pm

People change. Dreams change. By my highly scientific and official count, you change your mind about three hundred and thirty-three point six gazillion times between kindergarten and age 30. But let's pretend this chart, created by a young inner-city schoolteacher, is a wonderful sign of things to come: Only one… » 5/13/11 6:03pm 5/13/11 6:03pm