New Girls' Network

“I don’t think it’s a healthy dynamic for a wife to out-earn her husband, because so much of his sense of worth as a male is tied up in what he does vocationally.” That’s just precious. Related, amazing weekly feminist GIF from Feministing. Yes! Jugging a job and family is a men’s issue, too! What […]

Which does better by women? TV or the Movies? Related, where are the women directors at Cannes? Should you swap hugs for handshakes? Hmm…do you agree with this author’s definition of sexism?

I’ve been told I’m unfriendly by superiors, but I just think I take my job seriously. This is hurting my career: what do I do? It’s an unfair truth about office politics: when women keep to themselves, they’re unfriendly; when men do it, they are just too busy taking their job seriously. This is because […]

Sociologist Philip Cohen talks unmarried parenthood, lack of opportunity. “On doing the emotional work of being a male feminist.” Have we left Millennial men out of Lean In debate? Apparently, not all of them. For lovers (and haters) of Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal everywhere. Gorgeous illustrations of women in Congress.

For whatever reason, you are thinking about leaving your job. You may get the sense that there’s only room for one woman at the top of your organization. Or perhaps your male supervisor flirts with you. Maybe you feel your work is undervalued or you are just not sure it’s a good fit. Whatever the […]

Coverflip: Author Maureen Johnson and Twitter fans take on the gendering of book covers. Harvard Business School professor on why you should keep a career journal. New study says women undervalue themselves when working with men. How to accept and decline job offers. Time Magazine runs a story about lazy, entitled millennials: so what’s with […]

On April 4, 2013, the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis hosted the inaugural New Girls’ Network event, “Finding Your Voice.” The event included an interview with famed opera star Renée Fleming, a panel discussion with Vernā Myers, Sheli Rosenberg, and Michele Coleman Mayes, and an interview of Pfizer Inc. General Counsel Amy Schulman and Pfizer Inc. […]

We are pleased to introduce our newest feature What Works for Women at Work: Answers to Common Questions! In this weekly series, we give you the advice given to us by 127 savvy professional women to address some of working women’s most pressing questions. We hear this time and time again; working women are asked to […]