what works for women at work, by joan c williams and rachel dempsey
Friday, October 2nd, 2015
…organizations that think of themselves as highly meritocratic tend to have more gender bias than organizations that do not.
“Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.”
Over time, she learned that there were certain adaptations she just couldn’t make if she wanted to stay true to herself. “I needed to be the same person at work and outside of work,” she said. “It was too stressful to try to be two different people.”
