The conversation about gender equality in the workplace

Meghan Boone (Georgetown): Millennial Feminisms: How the Newest Generation of Lawyers May Change the Conversation about Gender Equality in the Workplace. Women make strides in business ownership: The growth rate of new businesses remains stalled, but the share of women-owned firms has climbed. The slow death of the secretary: A job that once gave a woman a middle-class life is fading away. Amber Akemi Piatt on how life as a waitress too often means low pay and sexual harassment. Jimmy Chulu (Copperstone): A Feminist Perspective that Poverty is Gendered: Do Women Have Lesser Access to Resources in Comparison with Men? Mike Isaacson on workers, women and revolution: From inequality to solidarity. Catherine Rampell on why college hasn’t closed the gender wage gap. One reason for the gender pay gap: You’re speaking it. From ThinkProgress, Bryce Covert on how the gender wage gap goes all the way to the top; on the lifelong effects of the gender wage gap; and on how there’s no way for women to escape the gender wage gap.

From Wired, Anne-Marie Slaughter on how the gig economy can actually be great for women. Max Ehrenfreund on how Social Security penalizes working women. How do you make sure generous paid leave doesn’t backfire on women? Focus on men. Less work, more time: Madeleine Schwartz on how feminists shouldn’t just call for a better balance between waged work and housework, between work and work — we should do the unimaginable, ask for more time. Claire Cain Miller on the 24/7 work culture’s toll on families and gender equality. Elizabeth Bruenig on liberating women from full-time work.

Joni Hersch (Vanderbilt): How Opting Out Among Women With Elite Education Contributes to Social Inequality. Rebecca Greenfield on one reason women aren’t getting the promotion: They don’t want it. Danielle Paquette on how political beliefs affect what women want in the workplace. Women start out as ambitious as men but it erodes over time, says researcher Michelle Ryan. Jeff Guo on the “Lean In” case for giving women preferential treatment in the workplace. A feminism where “Lean In” means leaning on others: Gary Gutting interviews Nancy Fraser, author of Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis.

Stop asking working moms about “having it all” — and women, stop answering. Women can’t have it all because the game is rigged: Work-life balance is a myth — it’s time for women to stop blaming themselves and start demanding change. Hire more women today: Fredrik deBoer on how we can’t expect personal integrity and male feminism to solve workplace gender inequality. Justin Wolfers on how even famous female economists get no respect (and more). Natalie Kitroeff and Jonathan Rodkin on how the real payoff from an MBA is different for men and women. Computer science now top major for women at Stanford University.

Silicon Valley V.C. firm can’t find any women: The problem is you, not him. Saying the right things, doing none of them: Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says the tech industry is out of excuses for its discrimination problems. The women of Hollywood speak out: Female executives and filmmakers are ready to run studios and direct blockbuster pictures — what will it take to dismantle the pervasive sexism that keeps them from doing it? Jessica Goldstein goes inside the “secret meeting” to solve gender inequality in Hollywood.