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There are plenty of ways that politics can influence hiring practices. Normally, we see civil rights as helping minorities to fight off discrimination. But the current immigration debate might have hurt one woman’s job search. How? Well even though she’s a US citizen, she has a Mexican birth certificate. And after months of interviews, she became pretty sure that her foreign birth was holding her back. More
A Muslim woman has sued the US Commission on International Religious Freedom for discrimination. In a horribly ironic story, the government agency that’s charged with protecting religious rights seems to have discriminated against an employee for her own religion. The woman’s story is a horrible indictment against the government agency, but it was also encouraging to see how seriously the case was taken by lawmakers. More
How’s this for a stressful interview question: During Edward Wolfe’s second interview for a job at a lighting company, a branch manager asked him to list every church he had attended over the past few years, along with where, when, and how he was “saved.” The manager also asked him if he would be OK with arriving to work early to attend a Bible study — without pay. Now — surprise, surprise! – Wolfe is suing the company.
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Do women pay a higher price for cursing at work than men do? Just ask former Yahoo! head Carol Bartz, notorious for her cursing on the job. (Here’s video of her telling a tech journalist to “F— off!”) According to a fascinating new article about cursing on the job in the Wall Street Journal, other directors at Yahoo! “discouraged her frequent use of swear words.” When a Journal reporter chastised Bartz for over-using the F word during her Yahoo tenure, she spat back, “And Jack Welch doesn’t?” More
Men whose wives don’t work outside the home could have a few things in common: A martini greeting them when they walk in the front door, a home-cooked meal every night, and the opinion that you, female colleague, probably shouldn’t get that promotion. Is your boss’s marriage getting in the way of your success? More
Kari Underly grew up in a family of butchers, but that didn’t make it any easier for her when she decided to get into the business. Her grandparents ran a butcher shop, and her dad had one, too, though it closed as supermarkets started to dominate the grocery business. By the time Underly decided to try her hand at butchery, it was an act of desperation: She needed a job in order to pay for college. The all-male butcher crew at her first job gave her the silent treatment, and one coworker even threw a knife at her. But Underley stuck with it, and eventually she moved out of the meat locker and into the corporate side of the meat industry, helping to develop and promote new cuts of meat including the Denver cut and the flatiron steak. Wiley published her book “The Art of Beef Cutting” last year. Underly is now a consultant, but she keeps her knife skills fresh; check out this aweomse video in which she breaks down an entire side of beef. She spoke with me recently about why she thinks women make the best butchers, how butchers became cool, and the incredibly satisfying story of how she got revenge on that knife-throwing colleague back in the meat cooler. More
Overweight women are less likely to be hired than their skinny rivals, according to a new study. Then if they are lucky enough to get the job, they are paid less and given more menial tasks. Sigh. Do overweight women need to diet to get hired? More
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow shut down a Republican strategist on Meet the Press yesterday who questioned her repetition of the famous statistic about the wage gap: “women in this country still make 77 cents on the dollar for what men make.” Republican Alex Castellanos challenged Maddow on the point, saying “actually, if you start looking at the numbers Rachel, there are lots of reasons for that.” Maddow and her fans don’t want to hear it, but Castellanos is (mostly) right. More
By now, the idea that women make just 77 cents for every dollar earned by men is a bad-news statistic as familiar as the one that says 50% of marriages end in divorce. President Obama repeats it often. You’ll hear it again tomorrow, which is Equal Pay Day, the day that symbolizes how far into 2012 a woman has to work to earn as much as a man earned in 2011. But that 77-cent stat isn’t the same all over the country. Luckily for us, Forbes did the math to figure out which American cities have the slimmest gap, and which have a wage chasm. By that measure, here are the five most unfair cities for women, and the five best. More
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Don’t give up hope for our democracy yet! There’s still one issue that Democrats and Republicans can agree on: Whether women should be allowed into Augusta National Golf Club, the Georgia club that hosts the Masters tournament. Yesterday President Obama’s spokesman said the president believes women should be admitted to the exclusive club. Republican front-runner Mitt Romney agreed; candidate Newt Gingrich and his golf-loving wife Callista did, too. Everyone hold hands and sing “Kumbaya.” But I say, let the boys keep their stupid old golf club. More
Should your office’s dress code be based on common sense, or should it spell out exact skirt lengths and ban certain kinds of sweaters? At their best, dress codes help employees understand what kind of professional atmosphere your office wants to maintain. But when HR gets overly interested in mandating employee appearances, they can look a bit like a bridezilla demanding that all 17 of her bridesmaids wear identical shoes and jewelry and dye their hair to match. Then there are the bosses who mandate “mini-skirt Mondays” — that’s a whole other problem. More
When it comes to hair color, gray is in style — or so say the experts. Prominent women young and old are sporting gray these days: Christine Lagarde (head of the IMF), Kelly Osbourne and other “young trendsetters,” and even Miranda Priestley (OK, she’s fictional). As a new AP story puts it, there’s “a new type of gray panther, a woman who aspires to do well and get ahead on the job while happily maintaining a full head of gray.” We’ve heard the fashion world and media announce that gray hair is chic before. But is it really true for average working women?
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When an economics professor discovered last year that attractive people earn significantly more on the job, it wasn’t shocking. After all, the sexy among us can charm interviewers and clients, and have likely lived with a measure of confidence their whole lives. But there’s one stage of the job-acquisition process where it might not pay to be hot if you’re a woman. As econ professor Bradley J. Ruffle writes online for the Harvard Business Review, HR departments may be strongly biased against attractive women. Why? Because HR departments are largely staffed by other young women. Even if it’s unconscious, jealousy rears its ugly head. More
We usually think of the costs of workplace discrimination in terms of those who get the brunt of it: Harassed workers are the ones who suffer psychologically, financially, or even physically from abuse in the workplace. But discrimination hurts businesses, too. A new report explains exactly how expensive it is for companies to discriminate against gay and lesbian workers. From productivity losses to retention problems to costly lawsuits, discrimination against LGBT employees isn’t just mean, it’s stupid. More
