#GAReads | 7 Things Women Are Expected To Justify At Work That Men Just Aren't
by Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA (women working in City Light office, 1954) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
"7 Things Women Are Expected To Justify At Work That Men Just Aren't":
It can be hard for women in the workplace to get across how deeply gender — or more accurately, cultural expectations tied to gender — influences their careers. Unless someone is out there experiencing it every day, taking home lower paychecks and justifying things at work that men never have to, sexism is easily brushed off as a thing of the past. After all, women can become CEOs these days, and at least we're not living in the Mad Men era of housewifery and being asked to sit on our bosses' laps, right? ...Right?