Women at Work

Advice for Less Than Optimal Circumstances

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With half my department furloughed, how can I keep from burning out and losing ground in my career? How can I best lead a large team that’s half remote? We respond to these questions and others from listeners looking for advice on their common workplace quandaries. These are problems and solutions we can all learn from.

Our HBR reading list:

  • “How Working Parents Can Support One Another,” by Stewart D. Friedman and Alyssa F. Westring
  • “Global Teams That Work,” by Tsedal Neeley
  • “If There’s Only One Woman in Your Candidate Pool, There’s Statistically No Chance She’ll Be Hired,” by Stefanie K. Johnson et al.
  • “Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity,” by Stefanie K. Johnson and David R. Hekman
  • “Ideal Worker or Perfect Mom?” by Alison Beard
  • “The Pandemic Has Exposed the Fallacy of the ‘Ideal Worker,’” by Joan C. Williams

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