Episode #3: Women At Work, Part I

Image credits: Ford Sewing Machinists, TUC Library Collections // Mad Men: season 5, episode 9 // #MeToo // Logo by @3Dperson // Rosie the Riveter (via Time)

Image credits: Ford Sewing Machinists, TUC Library Collections // Mad Men: season 5, episode 9 // #MeToo // Logo by @3Dperson // Rosie the Riveter (via Time)

WOMEN AT WORK: In which Charlotte and Emma discuss work-as-a-vocation fallacies, lean-in feminism, mindfulness in the workplace and sexual harassment. Plus: Swedish dads, and what we owe Harriet Harman.

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“Even if women do 'everything right' according to individualistic narratives of choice -- pick the correct major, excel in school, pursue desirable and demanding work, and find a supportive, accommodating partner -- this may not be enough," Rivera writes. "Hiring committees may still treat them as if their careers are secondary and exclude them from top jobs."
When I was young I believed in intellectual conversation:
I thought the patterns we wove on stale smoke
floated off to the heaven of ideas.
To be certified worthy of high masculine discourse
like a potato on a grater I would rub on contempt,
suck snubs, wade proudly through the brown stuff on the floor.
They were talking of integrity and existential ennui
while the women ran out for six-packs and had abortions
in the kitchen and fed the children and were auctioned off.

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