Consider these factors that, when operating at the unconscious level, drive unsupportive behavior among women at work.
"Employers are in the cat-bird seat, " said Kathryn Sollman, co-founder and managing partner of the Women at Work Network.
Why did Berkshire Hathaway come in last, when CEO Warren Buffett has spoken out about the importance of promoting women at work?
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But right now, there are men and women at work in laboratories, men and women whose names we do not yet know.
More single-person households and more married women at work means that fewer households are able to give a dog the walks and other attention it needs.
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The odd ones out are America and Britain, which both have lots of women at work and fertility rates close to replacement level (with immigration making up the rest).
Belkin, the former New York Times Motherlode blogger who joined HuffPost in late 2011 and has been watching the pursuits of women at work for more than a decade, added that the shift in strategy is a marked one.
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The men and women hard at work in this plant make me absolutely confident of that.
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The male commandos stay on an entirely separate campus - the men and women mix at work but not socially.
But women who work at these institutions will have access to free contraceptive services, just like other women, and they'll no longer have to pay hundreds of dollars a year that could go towards paying the rent or buying groceries.
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She told us why in this opinion piece: Why it's ok for women to flirt at work.
You might think this would be an advantage for women, especially at work.
Women work at every level: 70% of the board of directors and half of the senior managers are female.
And as though to confirm the stereotype - everywhere you turn in the capital - it's the women you see at work.
Women make sacrifices at work in exchange for greater happiness in their lives as a whole, says Warren Farrell, author of Why Men Earn More.
Moreover, most of the women who work at venture firms in the U.S. are not on the deal-making frontlines but are in operations or support roles such as CFO or communications.
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The suit, which was filed today in a federal court in Manhattan, alleges that women who work at Goldman are paid less than their male counterparts and are routinely passed over for promotion.
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More than 1, 500 names have been added to the wait list to purchase the Bia watch and the women are hard at work building the first ten prototypes with hopes of a Q1 2013 launch.
Where were the cites to studies about the fate of women who abandoned careers for home and family, only to be later abandoned physically and economically by their husbands who found younger more attractive women -- at work.
In this interview, Charlotte talks about how women can compete against men at work, the factors that tend to keep women out of management roles, and more.
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For women to achieve more at work, their partners must do more at home.
Essentially, persistent gender roles leave many women at home or at work part-time.
DeParle describes the lives of two white working class, college-educated women who work together at a Michigan child care center.
Men are more prevalent in business, and women have to work at changing the image of business to be gender neutral.
Besides such physical inconveniences, some studies suggest that menstrual disorders significantly affect women's productivity at work, and so the economy as a whole.
The move to more liberal shop-opening hours started in the eastern state of Saxony, in part because east German women spend more time at work.
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For lots of people, particularly the growing number of working women, speeding up at work, which you might think would mean slowing down at home, enjoying that promised land of leisure, meant just the opposite: home got sped up, too.
Most interesting, perhaps, is the finding that women may be harsher critics of those who cry at work despite the fact that women are more likely to do it.
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