One day while reading The Huffington Post, I read the article about Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett discussing the wage gap and she said, “there should be an app for that.” I agreed. So I created one.  → Read More

The fact that a wage gap exists between genders is not up for debate. You already know the all-too-familiar statistic that women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. But exactly why the gap persists is still being discussed. A study published in the American Sociological Review offers a new explanation. Researchers claim that it may be a matter of overtime: Men are more likely than women to put in 50 hours or more of work a week.  → Read More

Has anything changed in terms of women in the workplace or their roles as leaders in our country?
A newly released study by the Colorado Women’s College at the University of Denver (CWC), Benchmarking Women’s Leadership in the United States, 2013, carefully examines women in top positional leadership roles across 14 sectors for the first time. The study revealed that women hold on average under 20% of leadership positions, earn less than their male counterparts, and by some measures are outperforming their male peers across sectors such as Academia, Arts/Entertainment, Business/Commercial Banking, Entrepreneurship, Journalism/Media, Law, Medicine, Military, Nonprofit/Philanthropy, K-12 Education, Politics/Government, Religion, Sports, and Technology.  → Read More

I’m kidding, of course.
There is no set roadmap to success, especially in easy steps. When my 17-year-old niece Chloe, soon-to-be a high school senior, declared she wanted to follow in my footsteps and become a television director, I couldn’t have been more proud. I love what I do, so how could I not encourage her to follow her dream? I started thinking of what advice I’d give her on navigating the waters of a career in a male-dominated field, a path that can pose more than the usual challenges.  → Read More

When I got pregnant, I swore up and down that I would not become one of the many women I knew, both personally and as a reader, whose release from the maternity ward came with what felt like a requirement to shelve their previous interests and write about motherhood. Not me, I said: babies be damned, I’ll write instead about religion, ideology, and sometimes war. But once I became a mother, I quickly learned that motherhood in America is religion and ideology. And it is war.
But it’s not the right war.  → Read More

More and more American women are taking on the role of breadwinner, both for themselves and for their families, with many of them looking to education as a bridge to opportunity and to a heftier paycheck. The good news is that women’s overall participation in postsecondary education today is remarkable.  → Read More