Blaming
Women's Choices for the Gender Pay Gap by Hilary M. Lips
Attributing women’s lower pay to their own lifestyle
choices is seductive. At first blush, this argument
sounds reasonable. However, a closer look reveals that
the language of “choice” obscures larger
social forces that maintain the wage gap and the very
real constraints under which women labor.
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Ignore
the Ambition Double Standard You Can Love Your Job and Love Your Life by Debra Condren
It’s our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious men
are go-getters, but ambitious women are the b-word, bad wives,
bad mothers, and brazenly arrogant businesswomen.
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