Knowledge Center – Page 6 – Women's Leadership Edge

Overwhelmed – Being A Serious Professional
While Making Time For A Life

Author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time provides insightful analysis of the modern time bind, examining the pressures and conflicting expectations faced by working parents and others with family responsibilities. This webinar examines the systemic stressors that make work/life balance unattainable, and offers practical time-management strategies for coping with […]

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Pregnancy Accommodation Update For Employers

Gender Equity, Videos

[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE New laws, new cases, new interpretations, and new attitudes are unsettling standard pregnancy accommodation practices. What do employers have to do, and what should they do? This webinar will help HR professionals, managers, and legal counsel chart a course through the tangle of state accommodation laws, the amendment

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“I’d Rather Work With A Man”
Tips For Diffusing Conflicts Among Women

Gender Equity, Videos, Webinars

We receive more questions from WLE members about how to handle workplace conflicts between women than on any other topic. At least once a year, a study or trending article comes out about why female bosses are harder to work for, or how catty female coworkers or office Mean Girls hold women back in their

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Articles Around the Web

Reports & Other Resources

A collection of articles from around the web.

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The Flexibility Stigma

Gender Equity, Reports & Other Resources

[fontawesome icon=”lock” size=”medium” style=”normal” color=”theme” link=””] MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Joan Williams, Mary Blair-Loy & Jennifer Berdahl A new publication from WorkLife Law about the stigma applied to flexible work arrangements, and the superficial biases that lead to the failure of the modern workplace to adjust to the realities of the workforce.

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Behind the Scenes: What Works for Women at Work Interview with the Authors

Gender Equity, Videos

Joan Williams sat down with her co-author and daughter, Rachel Dempsey, for an enlightening and charming conversation about the origins of What Works for Women at Work, the various patterns of gender bias, some invaluable and personal career advice, and what it was like working together.

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Why can’t we talk about class?

Racial Equity, Videos

Why can’t we talk about class? At KALW promoting her book, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, Joan C. Williams discusses a topic often missing from the work-family conversation: the issue of class.

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Wall Street Women

Gender Equity, Videos

Wall Street Women Joan C. Williams discusses the employment and pay disparities between men and women in the financial-services industry on Bloomberg News.

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Legally Speaking with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Gender Equity, Videos

Legally Speaking with Ruth Bader Ginsburg A conversation between U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Joan C. Williams. Topics range from opera to marriage to work/life balance, as well as the court’s role in establishing individual rights and equal protection for women.

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Building Value in Networks to Achieve Your Professional Goals

Videos, Webinars

This webinar, suitable for men and women, will translate the extensive social science research on networks into incremental, concrete steps to help women identify, expand, and fully utilize their networks to build value in business networks and achieve rainmaking and other professional goals.

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