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• Post #4497938

  In London, women can book a hotel room on a women-only floor w/ a key-card restricted corridor. No other benefits. The cost is £10 more. Because of risks of sexual harassment, assault and unwanted attention, travel often comes at a higher cost for women. https://bbc.com/travel/article/20260807-the-controversial-economics-of-women-only-travel

• Post #4477960

  Orgs who scale back on DEI may think they are reducing risk. They may be increasing it. The EEOC is enforcing discrimination protections for women, such as a recent $2.6M settlement w/ TCI of Alabama for hiring only men as laborers. See my latest article in HR Dive, https://www.hrdive.com/news/pulling-back-from-dei-increases-legal-risk-women/826430/

• Post #4477954

  How it often goes for male bosses and female subordinates who have affairs: "For my former boss, it is a footnote in a longer arc of ascent. For me, it is the fracture that split my life into before and after." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/state/california/san-francisco/2026/07/28/aide-who-had-an-affair-with-gavin-newsom-shares-her-side-of-the-story-ruby-rippey/91079623007/

• Post #4473085

  Study of S&P 500 firms finds they did not improve profitability or firm value with return-to-office mandates, but RTO did decrease employee ratings on Glassdoor related to work-life balance, senior management, and culture. https://siliconcanals.com/t-return-office-mandates-firm-performance-employee-satisfaction/

• Post #4396607

  Study (N=80K) sent email from a fictitious two-parent household interested in enrolling a child. The emails randomly listed both the mother & father and asked the principals to call one. Mothers were 1.4x more likely than fathers to receive the phone call. https://theconversation.com/better-call-mom-schools-still-see-mothers-as-the-default-parent-to-contact-288478

• Post #4389620

  Study finds that men who hold traditional beliefs about masculinity & value social power more likely to think women should keep up beauty standards. Evidence that societal beauty expectations for women tied to broader desires to maintain gender hierarchies. https://www.psypost.org/men-who-crave-social-power-are-more-likely-to-endorse-strict-beauty-norms-for-women/

• Post #4387337

  Mothers learn to read the room, adapt communication, regulate herself while someone else is dysregulated, make decisions w/ incomplete info, plan, revise, repair & try again. At work, we call this emotional intelligence, coaching, stakeholder & project mgmt, strategic thinking & leadership presence. https://www.fastcompany.com/91571831/companies-keep-talking-about-the-motherhood-penalty-theyre-missing-the-motherhood-advantage

• Post #4366808

  Women ages 40+ searching for jobs may find their decades of experience as a hindrance. Some remove dates and years of experience from their resume. It is another way women are considered 'never quite right'. https://www.thetimes.com/money/family-finances/article/high-earning-women-out-of-work-8csg75h5v

• Post #4336258

  As I told Monica Torres of HuffPost, "As [women] grow older and more mature in their careers, they lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that. Men will allow women into the workplace ... and will be supportive of women in the workplace to the extent that women are compliant, supportive of the men, and they don’t push back.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/age-discrimination-women-goog_l_6a6ba2e0e4b01948ae9a97fd

• Post #4325347

  Study (N=1,373) finds care obligations can drag down women’s promotion chances more sharply than men’s. Caregiving may carry a different meaning when attached to a woman, with employers assuming she devotes more time & energy to it. https://www.scienceofmoney.org/it-s-not-being-a-woman-that-hurts-your-promotion-odds-it-s-part-time-work-and-ca-773/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=threads&utm_campaign=psypost

• Post #4253067

  In the US, 20M single women own homes; 17M single men. Some of these women get backlash from potential dates. One man questioned his date: "Why would you want to buy a house? What would a guy do for you?" https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/single-women-are-outpacing-single-men-in-homeownership-but-some-face-backlash

• Post #4175039

  Study of 1,029 unpaid caregivers ages 40 - 75 caring for adults 55+, women are more likely than men to be caring for a spouse (20% vs 15%). Spousal caregiving is more demanding: the caregiver is on duty around the clock and has fewer natural breaks. https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2026/07/28/nearly-half-of-full-time-workers-juggle-caregiving-responsibilities-and-theyre-falling-behind-at-work-because-of-it/

• Post #4172780

  Per the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Index, the 5 best countries for women: - Denmark - Iceland - Norway - Sweden - Finland 5 worst: - Afghanistan - Yemen - CAR - Syria - Sudan https://www.visualcapitalist.com/best-countries-for-women-map/

• Post #4150711

  Study of tradwife influencer content shows housework as effortless, sexual subjugation & body regulation as loving appreciation for a male provider and submission as a divine mandate. Missing: the vulnerabilities inherent in financial dependence on a spouse. https://www.psypost.org/the-hidden-business-of-the-submissive-internet-tradwife/

• Post #4100834

  Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence & status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty & 89% of those who were executed. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/26/women-witchcraft-financial-independence

• Post #4071139

  Many companies offer “flexible work” but still expect real-time responsiveness across all working hours. Employees become burned out from constant availability. Instead, define core collaboration hours (e.g., 10 AM–3 PM) and true offline periods. https://hbr.org/2026/07/the-invisible-work-draining-your-best-employees

• Post #4050394

  Heather Hender worked as an engineer for Nike from 2015-2020. A jury found that Nike discriminated against her by paying her less than male peers and promoting her more slowly. The jury awarded her $19K in economic damages (the max) & $15M in punitive damages. https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2026/07/jury-awards-plaintiff-at-least-75-million-in-punitive-damages-in-sex-discrimination-lawsuit-against-nike.html

• Post #4044261

  In Ancient Greece & today, there's "fury & fretting over women in politics speaking...tone of voice—too high? too school-marmish? too much vocal fry? too this? too that?—that ignores what they’re saying, as if their job was to be aesthetically pleasing." https://lithub.com/penelope-speaks-rebecca-solnit-on-the-western-literary-tradition-of-silencing-women/

• Post #4022625

  Study of 1.5M emergency dept visits finds women drs ordered 3-5% more lab tests and hospitalized 3-5% more patients than men drs. The additional testing was just as likely to uncover findings, indicating clinically appropriate care. https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/female-er-physicians-order-more-tests-and-admit-more

• Post #4000090

  The more that men credibly signal they will be dependable ‘dads’ and not disappointing ‘duds,’” the more likely educated women are to have babies. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/nobel-laureate-goldin-says-male-duds-are-weighing-on-birth-rates?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDU1Mjk3NiwiZXhwIjoxNzg1MTU3Nzc2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSFRMQkVUOTZPU0wwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0OEJDNDVEMEYyN0I0REUwODlBNzJENTc3OTM1...

• Post #3990930

  Having men in nursing is important. If there were more, then maybe male nurses would stop being mistaken for doctors. Role incredulity in the opposite direction (usually it is women doctors being mistaken for nurses.) https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5869813/nursing-men-jobs-male-nurses

• Post #3987018

  Focusing on tradwife vs girlboss serves a political purpose. Instead of focusing on why families can't keep up with the cost of living, policymakers shift blame to whether women work outside of the home. Thus the economic questions receive far less attention. https://www.forbes.com/sites/juliakorn/2026/07/20/the-real-cost-of-the-trad-wife-vs-girlboss-debate-what-america-isnt-talking-about/

• Post #3974484

  Researchers replicated a study on bias on hiring w/ AI. When AI was told a candidate from one group failed as a doctor, AI stopped hiring anyone from that candidate's group as a dr and instead hired them as janitors. AI was more likely to stereotype people than humans in the original study. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1140655/ai-biases-hiring-humans/

• Post #3944525

  When employees use AI to outsource critical thinking and creativity, it can cause them to fall behind and become complacent. Using AI can make people "boring" because they become "just like everyone else." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/19/how-using-ai-at-work-can-hurt-your-career.html

• Post #3939886

  Women's tone management in electronic messages is emotional labor: Add an exclamation mark so the sentence doesn’t read as cold. Add a softening “just” before the request. Add an emoji bc a plain full stop signals hostility. Read the message back, gauging how it will land. https://siliconcanals.com/sc-v-sociologist-arlie-hochschild-coined-the-term-emotional-labor-in-1983-to-describe-flight-attendants-four-decades-on-the-same-unpaid-work-has-migrated-into-friendships-families-and-slack-channe...

• Post #3918246

  One thing uniting the left and the right: opposition to AI data centers due to the effects they have on the environment and increased utility prices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/18/how-data-centers-became-symbol-americans-rage/

• Post #3892125

  Not only is Meta trying to silence Sarah Wynn-Williams, it is trying to destroy her. The goal is to send a signal to all other would-be whistle blowers. Even Sen Josh Hawley agrees. Read her memoir: CARELESS PEOPLE. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/17/meta-whistleblower-sarah-wynn-williams-us-senator-josh-hawley

• Post #3872370

  Researchers provided respondents with a management consulting job and asked them what the job ought to pay. Respondents (both men and women) suggested $1,000 less when they thought the job was female-dominated. https://news.ucsb.edu/2026/022699/battle-sexes-pay-gap-persists

• Post #3852384

  Women are as innovative as men, but the risks are higher because women aren't guaranteed that creativity will be well received. They must have psychological safety, which requires minimizing the costs associated with taking intellectual risks. https://www.fastcompany.com/91573368/for-women-being-creative-at-work-comes-with-a-price

• Post #3822593

  Flexible work is possible even in blue collar fields like manufacturing. GE Appliances has a pool of 900 workers who sign up for 4-hour shifts via an app, and choose what kind of work they want. Employees can also become full time with benefits if they want. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/08/nx-s1-5876084/manufacturing-flexible-part-time-work