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Anyone who has ever worked in the restaurant industry can tell you that it can be incredibly unpleasant for everyone involved, but a new study has found that, in fact, it's an especially terrible place for women to work. To begin with, they make less money. Women servers who work full-time earn 68 percent of the salary their male counterparts make—and black women servers make only 60 percent. This disparity is explained largely by the fact that the highest-earning positions in the industry are dominated by men. For instance, only 19 percent of chefs are women. More »
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Any job can be a downer on a given day, but now a study has shown that when people work very long hours, their jobs can actually make them depressed—like clinically depressed, not just "my boss is annoying" depressed. That's extremely scary news, seeing as so many of us are glued to our desks, slaving away until we die in our cubicles and no one notices. It's weird that anyone would find that depressing, right? More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5879835&view=rss&microfeed=true Gloria Clyne once said: "I never got rich, but it was a priceless experience." More »
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Here's something kind of sinister: employers can use your public Facebook profile to evaluate your personality, and experts say it's just as accurate as common personality tests. More »
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Starting a new job can be like the first day of school all over again, only scarier because you're a grownup and you have to worry about getting fired. Luckily, we have some tips for settling in. More »
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Freight company CEO and President Judy McReynolds has been a lot of things: A teenage gymnast, an engineering student, a tax accountant, and a wife and mother. But she's never been someone who made gender an issue. That's nice! More »
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Blurring the social and the professional is always tough, and nowhere do these two blur more thoroughly — or more (potentialy) catastrophically — than at the dreaded office holiday party. Here's how to emerge with your dignity (mostly) intact. More »
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After last week's breakup post, lots of you asked how to break up with that most fickle of mistresses — your job. Now we have the answer! More »
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NY Times magazine staffers took issue with Gerry Marzorati's decision to promote Megan Liberman as his deputy. She is said to be Marzoti's "extremely close confidant" and the two were "often seen" together. Marzorati recently left his position as editor-in-chief. More »
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Again with the intern mishigas! More »
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A disturbing study finds that men who hold "old-fashioned" views on women's roles actually make more money. More »
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Male sexual harassment claims against women are on the rise — does this mean we're finally accepting the existence of female sexual aggression? More »
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What would force someone to spend $8,600 taking out ads in major newspapers proclaiming "I Am A Bad Woman?" For Hwang Myoung-eun, the full page polemic the only way to vent her frustration as a working mother. More »
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Today at Forbes Woman, Mary Ellen Egan questions the cause for the persistent wage gap between men and women. But where are the solutions? More »
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If women ran Apple, would they have unveiled a product called the iPad? In Business Week, Vivek Wadhwa argues more women are needed in the executive suite (and not just for name changes). More »
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A new report from the Pew foundation delves into "Women, Men, and the New Economics of Marriage," but judging from media reactions to the data, it really should have been titled "The Rise of the Sugar Mama." More »
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Shaunti Feldhahn, author of The Male Factor, wants women to know that wearing clothes that reveal part of your breasts are distracting to men at work. Shocking. More »
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This week, the Economist cast a critical eye toward measuring the progress of women in the workplace. But their unit of measurement appears to be more concerned with "social consequences of women's economic empowerment" than the overall benefit to women. More »
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The British Intelligence Service, MI-5, smashed their glass ceiling by appointing Stella Rimington to Director General. Today, the Director of the CIA named Stephanie O'Sullivan to become third in command, in hopes of closing the US gender gap. [Atlantic] More »
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A Dell Australia executive says women are too modest about their achievements in the workplace, noting: "people whose confidence exceeds their ability are more likely to be men and those whose capabilities exceed their confidence are more likely to be female." More »
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The New York Times' John Tierney asks: "Could adults gossiping in the office be more devious than the teenagers in Gossip Girl?" The answer, of course, is: Yes. And a new study reveals that gossip in the workplace? Overwhelmingly negative. More »
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Citing a team sport heavy culture, the Obama administration is under fire for the lack of women at high profile games. Yesterday's New York Times cut straight to the point: "Does the White House feel like a frat house?" More »
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In Riyadh, the media company Rotana is shaking up Saudi society simply by being an openly gender-integrated workplace. Time magazine reports on the struggles and triumphs of working women battling against cultural norms. More »
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A new study looking at workplace attitudes begs the question: how do we talk about problems of sexism when people are sick of hearing about it? Dr. Elisabeth Kelan proves understanding a problem is not the same as solving it. More »
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Stereotypes abound when it comes to the assessment of women's worth in the workplace. In yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Lisa Belkin analyzes the emerging trends facing women in the recession - and how these perceptions benefit and hurt us. More »
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In 2008, I started attending conferences with Carmen, had a pocketful of business cards that I only distributed a few of, and felt really uncomfortable and nervous in crowds. This year, she asked me for tips on networking. What changed? More »
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Two articles in the New York Times this week explore the realities of women deployed to areas like Iraq and Afghanistan. While the articles focuse on the increase of women in combat situations, both briefly touch on gender-specific dangers. More »
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In the wake of a new study on the nature of sexual harassment, a spate of articles have been published exploring the new digital dangers for women in the work place. But where are the solutions? More »
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I think I've finally realized why Tina Brown's July 13 screed about Hillary Clinton continues to bother me so much. Thing is, it took today's fawning coverage of Hillary's heroic, journalist-saving husband, Bill, to figure out why. More »
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Elle publisher Carol Smith tells the Times why women make better bosses — and explodes a bunch of gender stereotypes in the process. But is she also creating new ones? More »
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A new study finds that one of the reasons white men make more money than anyone else is not just because employers are racist and sexist. It's because we all are. Gotta love that invisible hand. [Live Science] More »
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In January, the New York Times ran a piece about the "sisterhood" of "workplace infighting." On Saturday, the paper published "Backlash: Women Bullying Women at Work." Perhaps the wimminz needs to stay at home?!?! More »
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The Trades Union Congress in England is urging employers to stop making high-heels compulsory for female employees on grounds that it is sexist and can lead to health problems. • Comedian Kristen Schaal reveals that not only is she well-read in British dramatists, she used to practice stand-up in front of cows as a child. • In England a man has been banned from visiting his girlfriend's home after neighbors complained about their noisy sex and the girlfriend's general "nightmare neighbor" behavior. • Another plucky-grandma-fighting-a-thief story? Oh, yes. • More »
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Religious groups speak out against that "filthy" Barbie doll based on Black Canary, a comic superhero who wears fishnets and a black leotard. • An office manager in the Sichuan province of China has become the first man jailed for sexually harassing a female worker. Sexual harassment and domestic violence laws have only been recently introduced in China • A real sweetheart named Paulette Nelson volunteers at a USO where she personally flies to greet and see off soldiers coming home from or leaving for Iraq and Afghanistan. • Female students in Bangladesh protest against sexual harassment on their campus and their university's handling of women who speak out against such acts as "indecorous." • A study finds that people can generally agree on what makes a voice attractive, but it cannot be successfully scientifically mapped. More »
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Over on the New York Times "Freakonomics" blog, Steven D. Levitt tackles the issue of "sounding black." Specifically: As it relates to one's salary. Levitt's University of Chicago colleague, Jeffrey Grogger, compared the wages of people who “sound black” when they talk to those who do not. Apparently, if you "sound black," you earn 10% less than if you do not "sound black," and Levitt adds that this is "even after controlling for measures of intelligence, experience in the work force, and other factors that influence how much people earn." Plus! "For what it is worth," he writes, "whites who 'sound black' earn 6 percent lower than other whites." Oh, and ready for this? Levitt notes: "It turns out you don’t want to sound southern, either. Although pretty imprecisely estimated, it is almost as bad for your wages to sound southern as it is to sound black, even controlling for whether you live in the south." Effing hell. Where to begin? More »
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Yale psychologist Victoria Brescoll has confirmed what has long been the suspicion of many women: you cannot afford to get angry at the office if you own a vagina. According to science news site EurekAlert, Brescoll's study, published in the March issue of Psychological Science, showed that "People accept and even reward men who get angry but view women who lose their temper as less competent." The study involved showing subjects videos of male and female actors applying for a job; aterwards, the viewers were asked to rate the "applicants" on how competent they were, how much salary they deserved, and if they should be hired or not. "Both men and women in the reached the same conclusions," notes EurekAlert, "Angry men deserved more status, a higher salary, and were expected to be better at the job than angry women," regardless of the level of job for which the fake applicants were applying. More »
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Much has been made of kids who get bullied recently — Billy Wolfe, in fact, was on the Today show this morning — but the truth is, many of us face bullies as adults: At work. On a BusinessWeek blog, Cathy Arnst writes about an editor she once had: "Whenever I made a mistake—and in the beginning I made many, many mistakes—he would stand over me in the open newsroom and scream at me, impugning my intelligence and professional skills in language I've rarely heard since. I had nightmares about those tirades for years afterwards. Needless to say, I never made the same mistake twice." According to a New York Times piece by Tara Parker-Pope yesterday, 37% of American workers have experienced bullying on the job. More »
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"It's only sexual harrassment if your boss is ugly." Thus spoke casting agent "Chrissy, 26" in the latest issue of listings weekly Time Out New York, a sentiment which made us smile in agreement to ourselves before we resumed feeling guilty about being terrible feminists. But then! We picked up the latest issue of our favorite womanly magazine, Psychology Today, and read: Sexual harassment just proves a boss is totally about the equal rights! As the story explains, what we think of as the "patriarchy" is just a bunch of bossmen so horny they'll do whatever they can to get you to fuck them. But what if they get all nasty and degrading about it? It's just a sign of their respect. "Long before women entered the labor force, men subjected each other to such abusive, intimidating and degrading treatment." Dude! We're in a boy's club! More »
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