When people say things like there is no glass ceiling, or that the wage gap is a myth, it’s a little mystifying. The ceiling may be higher than it has been in the past – or it may be a labyrinth – but the numbers speak for themselves.
Rachel Dempsey earned her bachelor’s degree in Literature from Yale University in 2009. As an employee at national class-action law firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, she worked for plaintiffs on wage-and-hour and discrimination cases, including gender discrimination cases against Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. She has blogged for Amnesty International, and her posts with Joan have been published on the Huffington Post, Psychology Today, New Deal 2.0, and MomsRising and excerpted in Time magazine. She is currently working with Joan on a book based on the New Girls’ Network project, and will be attending Yale Law School in the fall.