A decade ago, Lisa Belkin wrote "The Opt Out Revolution," a New York Times Magazine piece that became instantly famous. It profiled women who had chosen to leave high-profile careers to stay home full-time, arguing that they had opted out because (to quote one) "women's brains light up...

So you or your partner is pregnant. There are plenty of important decisions to consider: what will be the little one's name? Will you share the name with friends and family or keep it a secret? What about gender? Do you want to know? Do you want others to know?...

Expectant mothers risk losing their jobs, their babies or both when employers deny them pregnancy accommodations at work -- accommodations as modest as the right to carry a water bottle due to persistent pregnancy-related urinary tract infections or the right to take more frequent bathroom breaks due...

Steve Tobak, a Silicon Valley consultant, reassured his Fox Business audience that "The Gender Pay Gap is a Myth," recycling a 2009 report commissioned by the Bush Department of Labor arguing that women's choices, not discrimination, account for the wage gap between men and women....

How many employed American mothers work more than 50 hours a week? Go on, guess. I've been asking lots of people that question lately. Most guess around 50 percent.

The truth is nine percent.

Nine percent of working moms clock more than 50 hours a week during the...

In the aftermath of the publication of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In, two things are becoming clear. One: We are in the midst of a powerful new feminist movement. And two: The backlash has already begun.

Led by high-powered women like Sandberg and Princeton professor Anne-Marie Slaughter, a new wave of...

It's been a rough couple of weeks for women in STEM.

Most shockingly, Adria Richards, former developer evangelist at SendGrid, was fired after she publicly reported two men (one of whom was also fired) for making lewd jokes in earshot at a PyCon Conference. Richards has since...

Co-written by Katherine Ullman.

An essay this month in The Wall Street Journal recycled a tired trope: "queen bees" in the office are making the lives of other women a living hell.

We've heard this before. Powerful women are just grown up high school "mean...

Recently, Katherine watched the three-part PBS series MAKERS in one sitting. (If you haven't seen it yet, we highly recommend and encourage you to watch it online here).

While some argue that the documentary misses the mark on feminism today, Katherine appreciated the...

If I hear once more that the reason for the wage gap is that women don't negotiate, I may just blow a gasket.

Linda Babcock herself, the author of the studies that gave rise to the "women don't ask" industry, has shown that women don't negotiate for a very simple...

In a snarky article, the newspaper of record confirms what we already know: Kate Middleton is pregnant. She's so nauseated that she's in the hospital on an intravenous drip.

She's just lucky she's not an American gal. U.S. employers regularly fire pregnant women when they need modest accommodations...

Joan once wrote that the way for women to gain equality was to die childless at thirty, based on data that young women without kids earn almost as much as men. Turns out even that won't guarantee pay equality.

A new report released last week by...

"Binders full of women." We all know what Mitt Romney meant during this week's presidential debate when he discussed his "effort" to recruit more women during his tenure as Governor of Massachusetts. But what he said spread like wildfire across the Internet and produced some amusing...

Every year The Center for WorkLife Law, which I direct, runs a leadership academy for women law firm partners. One key message we send is that sometimes what it takes to make partner is different from what it takes to rise in the partnership.

"I've noticed that...

Susan Lambert, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and the author of a much-discussed op-ed in Wednesday's New York Times, once told me that she gets a lot of grief. "You study what," say her social work friends. "Scheduling?"

I...

Like just about every other feminist on the Internet, I've read quite a bit about Marissa Mayer lately: She's the new CEO of Yahoo, she's about to have her first child, she's going to be making $59 million, she's behind some of

The Labor Day op-ed I co-authored with Anne-Marie Slaughter was written before I read a stupendous, and sobering, article by Erin Kelly, a sociologist at The University of Minnesota, who is one of the foremost work-family researchers in the country. (All data and quotes in this...

Advice literature for women is a crowded field and a predictable one. Most advice falls into one of two woefully inadequate camps:

1. Man up! The most common advice assumes that the problem is that women need to act more like men. Men tend...

Marissa Mayer is naïve. Or so say a million mommy blogs, and I just can't get this issue out of my head. Once the baby is born, say the blogs, she will see that a two-week maternity leave is not realistic. This is a typical gender war. Women judging each...

First, thanks to Anne-Marie Slaughter for peeling the band-aid off an open wound of American womanhood. It's our dirty little secret: Balancing work and family is still impossible for elite American women because of the way we structure work, family, love, marriage, careers, masculinity and dignity.

Yes....