A report of >3M finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out RTO mandates found women's turnover is 3x as high as men's & women more likely to take a lower position if they leave. Many left for roles in industries they had never worked in before. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Long-term missed periods are a health concern for bones, fertility, metabolism, iron, recovery, sleep, etc. Yet athletes have been told sport first, period later. The culture of sport is built on male norms—ultimate corporeal sacrifice & a multi-billion-$ enterprise. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

For Sanna Marin, elected as Finland's PM in her 30's, it wasn’t the pressures of government that became intolerable but, the press’s fascination w/ her personal life, such as her night's out & how she paid for breakfast. "Blatantly sexist," as Hillary Clinton said. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Bro co-CEOs: Spotify, Oracle, Comcast hire 2 men to share CEO role. Since 1998, only 3 Fortune 500 co-CEOs have included a woman. Often co-CEOs compete for the favor of a still-powerful founder who "let their male prodigies fight it out to see who will become top dog." fortune.com/2025/10/01/s...

Case study of 38 software engineering students working on GitHub projects finds women's communication had more follow-up and monitoring, while men lagged in response time. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Study of 1.4M online images finds women appeared younger than men in 3,495 occupations & categories, most stark for high-status jobs. When generating & evaluating 40K resumes, ChatGPT assumed women were younger, less experienced; older men more qualified. newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/news-release...

Black women entrepreneurs too often must deal with remarks about appearance when pitching ideas. One woman was told she was pretty but should get new headshots. Comments like this say to Black women that they are outsiders & their ideas come behind looks. gender.stanford.edu/news/black-w...

As of 2025, 43% of men & 36% of women attend church regularly. Married dads: 62%; Single moms: 39%. One reason: Women are juggling careers, side gigs & unpaid domestic responsibilities—church adds to the already full plate of demands on women’s lives. www.barna.com/trends/churc...

We have been told to be "authentic" at work. But your whole self includes undesirable, unprofessional & dark sides of your character. While men may get away w/ being authentic, women are penalized. Instead everyone should bring their "best" selves to work. www.fastcompany.com/91413530/to-...

US life expectancy: men: 76; women: 81. Men tend to engage in riskier activities: smoking, drinking, drugs. They die at higher rates from melanoma as men's skin differs from women's, but also use less sunscreen. Only 12.3% of men always wear sunscreen. www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

Poll (N=801) finds most voters support electing more women & say govt gets more done w/ women in office, but 1 in 5 say they or someone they are close to wouldn't elect a woman president. The old boys club & neg media portrayal were deterrents for women running. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Gender power relations in prehistory is a matter of debate. If the female consort of a male ruler influenced his entourage through patronage and back channels, and his own policies through counselling, was she any less powerful than him? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The child care industry is 100K workers short of where it would be if fed funding continued. That's also driven up costs. When child care is too pricey or unavailable, mothers leave paying jobs to stay home. www.axios.com/2025/10/02/w...

The fetal health monitor is based on 1960s tech. New tech fails to gain adoption due to low reimbursement for obstetrics (Medicaid pays $1K for 9 months prenatal care, labor & delivery; $1.6K for 1 HR of joint replacement)& regulatory rules favoring status quo. www.statnews.com/2025/10/02/w...

Study of 141 AI companies finds 43% of private firms had all-male boards & women held 15% of board seats. 62% of smaller AI firms ($50M-$100M funding) had all-male boards. Only 3% of public AI companies had all-male boards & women held 29% of board seats. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Federal law already prohibits separate physical standards for men and women in the same military role. "The women who serve — from pilots and logisticians to cyber experts and infantry officers — are the embodiment of this enhanced readiness." www.axios.com/2025/10/01/h...

212,000 women left the work force between Jan and Aug 2025, while 44,000 men entered. The US govt is unconcerned, seeing men's employment as essential, but women’s employment as a nice to have, their job loss not constituting a serious obstacle. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Disparate impact: A policy can look fair but be discriminatory if it creates barriers for certain groups of people to succeed. Example: Amazon dropped an AI resume-scanning tool bc it favored men for tech roles. EEOC dropping enforcement. Not good. apnews.com/article/trum...

Women aren’t just blamed for everything, they’re conditioned to accept it. Poverty, crime (single moms), rape (short skirts, drinking), incels (women not dating unappealing men), divorce (women file the majority of cases) & anything w/ pregnancy & children. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Study (N=2,273) finds using senior patent examiners to give extra help & encouragement to female inventors who applied "pro se" (without help of an attorney) increased patent success by 12% and by 17% for first-time applicants. phys.org/news/2025-09...

AI has led to threats against public figures at all levels: “deepfake” images, videos, or audio manipulated to imitate a person’s likeness. Women are often targeted. Federal judges have legal & security protections but state judges often do not. 19thnews.org/2025/09/ai-w...

Returning to traditional gender roles is mired in potential pitfalls for women, including lack of financial independence and vulnerability to abuse and control. theconversation.com/from-the-man...

Coffee badging: showing for required attendance but remote working the rest of the day. 58% of hybrid workers (N=2,000) do this; 62% men; 38% women. May benefit women w/ caretaking responsibilities as they can pick up kids at school & then work from home. www.cnbc.com/2023/10/05/a...

There is a long history of blaming women who step out of their traditional role for creating many of the social problems of the day such as juvenile delinquency, the decline of the American home, and even child mortality and morbidity. And now autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

When women are underfunded, boys & men are hurt - Boys grow up in trauma w/o DV shelters & mental health svcs - Men face economic pressure when women lose income, healthcare, credit - Economies contract when women can't get capital for business www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/how-und...

Study tracking 700K Swedish students through age 30 finds girls who had more female peers in classrooms earned more and were more likely to enter higher-paying careers. Moving from a 45% to a 55% female cohort reduced the gender wage gap by 2.7%. www.durham.ac.uk/business/new...

In place of freedom, equality, power and choice, the Trump regime offers women flattery and a duplicitously simplistic worldview that denies their agency. Patriarchal politics hurt women, even those who participate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

In 2020, there were 7.8M kids in afterschool care & another 25M parents who wanted it. Many of these kids are on their own after school. The school schedule is not built for 2 working parents. Programs should be govt funded as the economy would benefit. time.com/7318911/afte...

Even though 6 in 10 men say they want a return to 'traditional gender roles', 2/3 of families can't afford it, needing two incomes for rent, utilities, food, kids, car, etc. And not to mention, many women enjoy contributing to society via paid employment. 19thnews.org/2025/09/poll...

Have you ever been coached to be authoritative or master self-promotion or not be so emotional or avoid 'weak' language. If so you are being told to "lead like a man." Read my latest @fastcompany.com article on why this advice is misguided & what to do instead. www.fastcompany.com/91363032/sto...

"Frightened women, scared both for the health of their pregnancies & for the ways they will be blamed if something goes awry…are met by charlatans, grifters & quacks who are happy to tell them lies in exchange for their attention & money"@moiradonegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In 18th/19th century, tie-on pockets for women went away in favor of form-fitting clothes. Women lost autonomy, not being able to take valuables in public & depending on men. They began carrying small bags but still vulnerable w/o full use of their hands. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Study of 5,505 consulting & royalty payments by pharma & med device companies in 2023 to surgeons finds men received 87% of $23.9M in consulting fees. Median fees: $4,800 men vs $4,650 women. Only one woman received royalties vs 37 men ($299K vs. $6.66M). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Studies find medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect severity of symptoms for women patients & display less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients. Many Drs are using LLMs & note taking apps to generate transcripts & summaries. www.ft.com/content/128e...

Studies find medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect severity of symptoms for women patients & display less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients. Many Drs are using LLMs & note taking apps to generate transcripts & summaries. www.ft.com/content/128e...

For women “having it all” appears aspirational. But underneath is chronic exhaustion. Study finds women work late into the night not because it’s expected, but bc they feel they have to prove themselves. This self-imposed manager is a trick of the patriarchy. theconversation.com/impostor-syn...

Women are only 5% of skilled trades. Sexual harassment, stereotyping, ostracization & surveillance keep women from entering & staying. Sexual harassment is more likely when men see women as outsiders, women have less seniority & jobs are physically demanding. theconversation.com/4-decades-af...

There isn't a single college major where women (who outnumber men in college) earn more than men. Examples: Social Work: 9.5% Nursing: 14.6% Elementary Ed 16.0% Comp Sci: 20.4% Sociology: 20.7% Business: 26.0% Criminal Justice: 27.1% Engineering: 26.3% www.forbes.com/sites/eriksh...

Study of 2,936 CEO transitions (1998-2021) finds women CEOs in highly religious US states earned more than male peers. Female CEOs are rare & therefore seen as extraordinary. But they are still paid less than female & male peers in more secular states. brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

Women are the majority of teachers, but only 1/3 of US superintendents. In western US: 37%; northeastern: 46%; southeastern: 22%. Women superintendents more likely than men to have a doctoral degree or been promoted from a deputy or interim superintendent. edsource.org/updates/more...

When Anne Wentworth (1630-1693) wrote about the decades of abuse her husband William inflicted on her, it was Anne who was hauled before the leaders of their Baptist church for “rejecting and neglecting their church” and “dissatisfying” her husband. theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...

Study finds 8% of the decline in the gender pay gap (1980-2000) is explained by decrease in the number of children working women & men had. Once the average number of children stabilized around 2000, so did women’s progress toward earning as much as men. theconversation.com/us-women-nar...

In the first few weeks after ChatGPT's release, OpenAI estimated that 80% of users were male. More recent data from June found slightly more usage among those with traditionally female names. www.axios.com/2025/09/15/c...

Last week I gave the keynote on glass walls in hospitality at AAHOA HerOwnership conference. @hertelier.bsky.social's spot-on recap: "This is not a women’s problem. It’s a business problem. Solving it will make our industry stronger, smarter & far more innovative." www.hertelier.com/post/glass-w...

Most studies suggest that women are more sensitive to pain than men. 1/2 of chronic pain conditions — migraine, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis & IBS— are more common in women. Only 20% are more common in men. The rest are evenly split. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

For women regardless of politics & liberal men, children may be part of a good life but not some sort of accomplishment. For conservative men, having kids may be a status symbol & conveniently something for which women take on the lion’s share of the labor. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Eldercare: Many women leave work to care for kids, comes back to her career and then leaves again to care for her aging parents. That second bout of caregiving comes with many of the same challenges as parenthood but with less resources and awareness. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

During menopause, estrogen levels decrease, which changes vocal fold tissue. Women’s voices get deeper, hoarser and can be harder to project. Teachers and voice over actors are especially impacted. Actors become less desirable for voice over work. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/10/m...

I had a great time presenting and signing copies of GLASS WALLS at AAHOA's HerOwnership conference in Hilton Head.

While the federal govt does little on child care, states can follow New Mexico's lead and establish their own programs. "Child care is essential to family stability, workforce participation and New Mexico’s future prosperity." -Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham 19thnews.org/2025/09/new-...