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Women can thrive at work if they feel adequately supported during menopause and perimenopause, says Lauren Smith Brody.
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This morning, I get real with @thepersistent.bsky.social about what it's really like to be a Black woman in #economics, why one Harvard professor called me a âwild cardâ, and how building a legacy beyond myself has completely changed my life.
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The economist @itsafronomics.blacksky.app on being underestimated in academia, and why Black women pay more for their hair products and their homes â but get paid less at work.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 13,000 parents who... had their first child after the first year of their doctoral studies.
Eight years after the birth of a first child, women were 29% less likely to remain employed at a university.
Ambition: It's a taboo topic for women. But why?
Career and leadership coach Phoebe Gavin encourages you to ask yourself what ambition means to you, as well as why you define it that way.
Researchers have discovered that girls read more than boys during school vacations - which might help to explain why they outperform boys academically.
âWe were treated like second-class citizens undeserving of power, status, and the state control and surveillance that come with them. So women were better positioned to explore new ways of survival when the old system crumbled.â
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It's time to explore how to (re)discover who you are outside of work.
Career coach Phoebe Gavin will join us to discuss âidentity enmeshment," the idea that you are your job and your job is you, on Friday, March 27th, at 11 PM ET.
Register and submit your questions: events.zoom.us/ev/Al20-sgzU...
From Autumn Durald Arkapaw's Best Cinematography award to Amy Madigan's win at 75, this year's Academy Awards showed hope for women in Hollywood.
A new ranking of the most-cited U.S. legal scholars shows women dominating the top 10 for the first time.
Gen Z men are particularly staunch in their defense of traditional gender roles, despite evidence that womenâs rights are eroding globally.
"Virtue signaling is real and everywhere, especially during Womenâs History Month," @josiecox.bsky.social writes.
Whether youâre organizing a protest or just dancing around your living room, put this playlist on in the background for an instant burst of empowerment â and joy. We could all use some more of both.
Women make up around 1/2 of the worldâs population but still hold no more than 1/5th of all leadership positions, according to a sweeping new research report.
What does the bombing of Iran mean for Iranian women? The British-Iranian peace advocate @sanambna.bsky.social asks if it could destroy years of work to improve their lives in conversation with @clairecozens.bsky.social. www.thepersistent.com/iran-war-wom...
Pleased, proud, privilegedâall the wordsâto have this piece in The Persistent today.
There was a time when I thought that greeting myself in the mirror and saying, "Hey, girl. I love you," was my middle-aged right. It felt good, writes @deniseschipani.bsky.social. But it doesnât anymore.
Five years since Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped, then murdered. She was wearing an anorak, and walking along a well-lit route: the things we're meant to do to stay safe. But her parents couldn't see her face to say goodbye, because her killer had set fire to her body.
How much has changed?
"Identity enmeshment" is the idea that you are your job and your job is you. You can disentangle your identity from your job in small, steady steps.
In the four years since Russia invaded Ukraine, 14,000 women and girls have been injured. Now, the UN is warning that with funding for women's organizations running out, women and girls face a "triple threat".
An interesting look at the history of name changing customs & laws and the "battle over womenâs surnames," from @kathleenedavis.bsky.social in @thepersistent.bsky.social:
"The tradition of a woman changing her last name from her fatherâs to her husbandâs is part of an English law called coverture."
In my latest for @thepersistent.bsky.social, I argue that the French government's decision to write to 29-year-olds to "combat" infertility misses the point, because the decision to have a child isn't just a medical issue, it's a social one, too. www.thepersistent.com/france-ferti...
"âThese delays can compound over time to affect [womenâs] career trajectories,â Cassidy Sugimoto, an info scientist at the GA Inst of Tech who was not involved in the study, told âThe Scientistâ in an interview about the findings.
âWhen production slows [...] visibility slows with it,â she added.âđ§Ş
