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A post from DoubleX writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Top law firms report having few or no women on their list of the top 10 "rainmakers."
Fifteen years out of law school and a veteran of big-firm life, I asked
former classmates and colleagues why women don't bring in the bucks.
Should I be surprised that the answers turned out to reflect their own
gender divide?
Men, while offering a nod to the idea that perhaps women led more
balanced lives (proper rainmaking behavior is a 24/7 job: If you've
seen Ari Gold on Entourage,
you've seen somebody making it rain), seemed inclined to put the new
statistic (from a study the National Association of Women Lawyers and reported on Law.com) in the category of "change that hasn't filtered up yet" ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).
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Meghan,
thanks so much for posting about the importance of female mentorship.
I'm no physicist (anymore) but with many friends plus a mom in science,
I am especially sensitive to the need for and frequent lack of XX
mentorship in these disciplines. We've all heard reports that Americans
lag behind in the hard sciences generally—but less reported is the fact
that women rarely take on the quant-heavy jobs that do exist, or that
tenured female science and engineering faculty are almost nonexistent.
Then there are the other, real disadvantages talked about in the
Fisman/NBER report.
Some of this, of course, has to do with... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Vanessa, I share your concern that women have limited workplace stereotypes
from which to choose: We’re either the nurturing pushover or the
demanding bitch. We’re not the only group, though, struggling with how
to present ourselves in the workplace. A study out last week found that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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