Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's no workplace orientation session about narrowing the wage gap, standing up to interrupting male colleagues, or taking on many other issues we encounter at work. So HBR staffers Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield are untangling some of the knottiest problems. They interview experts on gender, tell stories about their own experiences, and give lots of practical advice to help you succeed in spite of the obstacles.
152 episodes transcribedHigh-quality relationships with other women at work, and the productivity and creativity those connections bring, are built on trusting one another wi...
Many companies are still sorting out the right policies to put in place around sexual harassment. But even where good policies exist, we all need the...
Women are responsible for most eldercare, and it’s often an exhausting, isolating job that has to be done on top of your paid work. We talk with a res...
Thinking of gender as man/woman and masculine/feminine leaves out a lot of people. We talk about the problems the gender binary causes at work and get...
We discuss how women think about and approach competition at work and get advice on how to keep our disagreements — and people’s perceptions of them —...
Do women really apologize more than men at work? We speak with a psychology professor and a leadership consultant about the impact that saying “sorry”...
Just because some of us are single and childless doesn’t mean we don’t have problems at the office or responsibilities outside of it. We talk with a w...
There are a lot of reasons women should feel optimistic about having both a career and children. Two professors tell us about the takeaways from their...
Visibility at work is important for our professional advancement — and tricky, especially for women. In this live episode, we talk about navigating th...
Stress can enhance our performance at work, but not if it leads to burnout. We talk with an expert on workplace well-being about how women experience...
Women at Work is back April 15 with stories, conversations, and practical advice about being a woman in the workplace. Expect to hear from us every Mo...
Amy Gallo is a contributing editor for HBR, an expert on conflict and difficult conversations, a prolific giver of advice — and now she takes up the b...
In this special live episode, we share stories, research, and practical advice for strategic self-disclosure, and then take questions from the audienc...
Women will be a stronger force against sexism and racism at work if we know and trust each other. We talk through best practices for listening to, lea...
We bring you three stories about parental leave, from listeners whose experiences with it changed them, for better or for worse. They talk about havin...
We hold ourselves back when we let differences like race or class divide us from other women. We talk about the very different experiences and profess...
If you’re your family’s chief breadwinner, research suggests that the pressure you’re feeling is different from what men have been dealing with for eo...
Women have to work harder to be recognized for our ideas. And that recognition is essential for getting the assignments and the promotions we deserve...
Perfectionist tendencies are a trap that can be difficult to avoid, but we’ll be more productive and advance faster if we don’t worry so much about ma...
Both male and female managers tend to give women low-quality feedback. And when we don’t hear how we’re really doing at work and what we can do to imp...
