What about women in law & tech?
From Bloomberg TV comes a fascinating piece on women in technology: Women Take the Lead in Technology
41 Years After Mildred Lillie is Not Nominated to the Court, Talent Pool Filled With Qualified Women Lawyers Yet Few Ascend to Positions of Power
President Nixon lamented the small pool of qualified women lawyers from whom he might consider a nominee to the United States Supreme Court in 1971. Forty one years later, the profession is, indeed, filled with women lawyers, but marked disparities in power and pay remain. A recent article by Vivia Chen discusses the “gaping hole” that characterizes the pay gap between male and female lawyers. Today the legal profession looks a little different than it did in 1971, but has a long way to go before parity is realized.
Help Kickstart Goldie Blox, Girl Engineer
Goldie Blox is the brain child of Debbie Sterling, a Stanford-trained engineer who says part of the solution to pervasive gender disparity in the field is to expose girls to engineering early. And to let them know it is okay to be a princess who likes to build things. Goldie Blox “builds, breaks down barriers, and breaks the mold.” Listen to Debbie Sterling’s story here and back Goldie Blox while you’re at it!
Adding Sex to the Conversation on Work-Life Balance?
Herminia Ibarra asks this question in a recent Harvard Business Review piece. It has generated loads of discussion-a lot of it negative-on some of the list serves I subscribe to. Whether this issue belongs front and center along with childcare challenges and gender bias in the workforce, or should remain in the quiet context of conversations among girlfriends, is perhaps up for debate. It nonetheless raises some interesting questions about how women’s sexuality fits in to this broader context of the competing demands of work, children, relationships.
Read the article here:
Michelle Obama for President
Michelle Obama 2016? You heard it here first, though it looks like Barbie is also thinking this way. I couldn’t help but notice when reading my daughter Barbie for President that the book features a Michelle Obama look-a-like as the President of the United States.
Junot Diaz’s interview in the NYT Sunday Book Review reminds me why I loved Encyclopedia Brown as a child–Sally Kimball
As a first-grader I loved, loved, loved reading Encyclopedia Brown. Junot Diaz’s By the Book interview in this week’s NYT Sunday Book Review reminded me just how much. And while I didn’t think about this consciously as a seven-year-old, Diaz is right that Donald Sobol gave us a fabulously smart and powerful female role model in Sally Kimball, Encyclopedia Brown’s partner-in-crime(solving). Diaz observes: “What I loved about Boy Detective Leroy Brown was that (1) he was unabashedly smart (smart was not cool when and where I grew up) and (2) his best friend was a girl, tough Sally Kimball, who was both Leroy’s bodyguard and his intellectual equal. Sobol did more to flip gender scripts in my head than almost anybody in my early years.” Read the full interview here.
Starting Law School this Week? Check Out the Girl’s Guide to Law School
About: The Girl’s Guide to Law School exists for one reason: to help you get what you want from your law school experience. This isn’t about some abstract version of “success.” It’s about figuring out what you want to achieve, and helping you get there.
Hillary Clinton: “Would you ever ask a man that question?”
The Boston Review reminds us here of an interview Hillary Clinton gave in 2010:
MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?
MODERATOR 1: Yes.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? (Laughter.) (Applause.)
MODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. (Applause.)
“Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork—reading, writing, thinking—can.” Helen Gurley Brown
The NY Times marks the passing of Helen Gurley Brown last week: As Others Saw Her. The Daily Beast offers some more of her memorable quotes.
Books we love: Deborah Rhode’s The Beauty Bias
Reviews here: Just One Look, NYT, Emily Bazelon; Should it Be Legal to Fire the Unattractive? Slate, Dahlia Lithwick
Purchase the book from Oxford University Press here.
A Not Nominated profile: Susie Sharp, North Carolina’s first female chief justice
Susie Sharp became the first female chief justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1974, having been appointed to the court in 1962. She was mentioned as a potential nominee to the US Supreme Court during the Nixon administration but, of course, she was not nominated. Her biography is fascinating, offering wisdom about Sharp’s education, family, career, and love life.
Read reviews here: Sharp Biography Reveals Court Secrets (News & Record); Biography Reveals Another Side of Sharp (The Pilot)
And purchase Without Precedent by Anna Hayes here.
NPR tells Justice Bernette Johnson’s story as she vies to become chief justice
Listen to the NPR story here.
Vogue on Chelsea Clinton’s Political Aspirations
Read the article here.
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