Notes from Just a Girl: Growing Up Female and Ambitious

  1. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “Charges Alleging Sex-Based Harassment (Charges Filed with EEOC), FY 2010–FY 2017,” 2017.
  2. Stephanie K. Johnson and Juan M. Madera, “Sexual Harassment Is Pervasive in the Restaurant Industry. Here’s What Needs to Change,” Harvard Business Review,January 18, 2018.
  3. K. B. H. Clancy, R. G. Nelson, J. N. Rutherford, and K. Hinde, “Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault,” PLoS ONE9, no. 7 (July 2014).
  4. Barbara Boxer, The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life (New York: Hachette Books, 2016), 76–78.
  5. Chai R. Feldblum and Victoria A. Lipnic, “Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace,” Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, June 2016.
  6. Mary Karr, in conversation with the author, San Miguel Writers’ Conference, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, February 2017.

  1. The American Association of University Women Education Foundation, “How Schools Shortchange Girls,” 1992.
  2. Helen Cordes, “Raising Confident Girls,” Child, September 2001.
  3. Brian D. Johnson and Laurie Berdahl, “Will Your Boys Grow Up to Respect Women?” Psychology Today, February 25, 2018.
  4. Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum, The Courage to Raise Good Men (New York: Viking Penguin, 1994), 120–24.
  5. Reva B. Siegel, “A Short History of Sexual Harassment,” in Catharine A. MacKinnon and Reva B. Siegel, eds., Directions in Sexual Harassment Law (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 3–8.
  6. Sascha Cohen, “A Brief History of Sexual Harassment in America Before Anita Hill,” Time,April 11, 2016.

  1. L. Hinkelman, The Girls’ Index: New Insights into the Complex World of Today’s Girls (Columbus, OH: Ruling Our eXperiences, Inc., 2017), 27.
  2. Lin Bian, Sarah-Jane Leslie, and Andrei Cimpian, “Gender Stereotypes About Intellectual Ability Emerge Early and Influence Children’s Interests,” Science355, no. 6323 (January 2017): 389.
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  4. Siegel, “A Short History of Sexual Harassment,” 11, 20–21.
  5. Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl(New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1962), 89, 103.
  6. Katharine Graham, Personal History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 416.
  7. Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams, “Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life,” Harvard Business Review, March 2014.

  1. Jennifer L. Berdahl, “Harassment Based on Sex: Protecting Social Status in the Context of Gender Hierarchy,” Academy of Management Review32, no. 2 (2007): 641–58.
  2. L. F. Fitzgerald et al., “The Incidence and Dimensions of Sexual Harassment in Academia and the Workplace,” Journal of Vocational Behavior32 (1988): 152–75.
  3. L. F. Fitzgerald, M. J. Gelfand, and F. Drasgow, “Measuring Sexual Harassment: Theoretical and Psychometric Advances,” Basic & Applied Social Psychology17 (1995): 425–45.
  4. Bernice Yeung, In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers(New York: The New Press, 2018), 5, 35–36.
  5. Saru Jayaraman, Forked: A New Standard for American Dining (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016), 11–12.
  6. Carrie Teejardin et al., “Doctors & Sex Abuse: Still Forgiven,”Atlantic Journal-Constitution, July 6, 2016–April 26, 2018.
  7. Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970), xii, 164–68.
  8. Graham, Personal History, 417–18.
  9. Ibid., 425.
  10. Lin Farley, Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978), 90, 52–121.

  1. CFI Group, “Technical Report: National Park Service (NPS) Work Environment Survey, January–March 2017,” September 29, 2017.
  2. Anita Hill, Speaking Truth to Power (New York: Doubleday, 1997), 195.
  3. Jennifer L. Berdahl, “The Sexual Harassment of Uppity Women,” Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, no. 2 (2007):425–37.
  4. Karen Sutherland, “Dating in the Workplace: Avoiding a Harassment Claim from a Relationship Gone Sour,” January 2013, www.omwlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Dating-In-the-Workplace_-Avoiding-A-Harassment-Claim-From-A-Relationship-Gone-Sour.pdf.
  5. Enid Nemy, “Women Begin to Speak Out Against Sexual Harassment at Work,” New York Times, August 19, 1975.
  6. Kaitlin Menza, “You Have to See Redbook’s Shocking 1976 Sexual Harassment Survey,” Redbook, November 28, 2016.
  7. Sascha Cohen, “A Brief History of Sexual Harassment in America Before Anita Hill,” Time,April 11, 2016.
  8. Spencer Rich, “Schlafly: Sex Harassment on Job No Problem for Virtuous Women,” Washington Post, April 22, 1981.
  9. National Science Foundation, National Science Board Science & Engineering Indicators 2018, Chapter 3, “Science and Engineering Labor Force,” January 2018.
  10. Grace Donnelly, “Google’s 2017 Diversity Report Shows Progress Hiring Women, Little Change for Minority Workers,” Fortune, June 29, 2017

  1. Amy Schumer, “Last Fuckable Day,” Inside Amy Schumer, Season 3, April 21, 2015, www.comedycentral.co.uk/inside-amy-schumer/videos/inside-amy-schumer-last-fuckable-day.
  2. Dante Chinni, “Poll: Views on Sexual Harassment at Work Divided Women by Age,” NBC News, December 3, 2017, www.nbcnews.com/storyline/sexual-misconduct/poll-views-sexual-harassment-work-divide-women-age-n826011.
  3. L. Berger and J. Waldfogel, “Maternity Leave and the Employment of New Mothers in the United States,” Journal of Population Economics17, no. 2 (June 2004): 331–49.
  4. Jessica Deahl, “Countries Around the World Beat the US on Paid Parental Leave,” NPR, All Things Considered, October 6, 2016, www.npr.org/2016/10/06/495839588/countries-around-the-world-beat-the-u-s-on-paid-parental-leave.
  5. Kenneth M. York and Kelly J. Brookhouse, “The Legal History of Work-Related Sexual Harassment and Implications for Employers,” Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal1, no. 3 (September 1988): 227–37.
  6. Phyllis Schlafly, “The Power of the Positive Woman,” (New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), 68–70.

  1. Nicole Hemmer, “Hill Changed the Harassment Conversation,” U.S. News & World Report,October 17, 2017.
  2. Carol Kleiman, “Sexual Harassment Complaints on Rise,” Chicago Tribune, March 7, 1992.
  3. Marcia D. Greenberger, “What Anita Hill Did for America,” CNN, October 22, 2010, www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/10/21/greenberger.anita.hill/index.html.
  4. Kevin McCoy, “Sexual Harassment: Here Are Some of the Biggest Cases,” USA Today, October 25, 2017.
  5. United States Court of Appeals, Baldwin v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, no. 05-15619, March 19, 2007,https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-11th-circuit/1002853.html.

  1. bell hooks, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love(New York: Atria Books, 2004), 52.
  2. Olga Silverstein and Beth Rashbaum, The Courage to Raise Good Men (New York: Penguin Books, 1994), 4–5, 27–32, 76, 235.
  3. hooks, The Will to Change, 51.
  4. David McGlynn, “In the #MeToo Era, Raising Boys to Be Good Guys,” New York Times,June 1, 2018.
  5. Alison Bowen, “Raising Boys Who Respect Women,” Chicago Tribune, January 23, 2018.
  6. Jennifer Newson, The Mask You Live In, the Representation Project, January 25, 2015, http://therepresentationproject.org/film/the-mask-you-live-in/.
  7. Christia Spears Brown, Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes (New York: TenSpeed Press, 2014), 85.

  1. Harry Enten and Kathryn Casteel, “What Women Thought of Trump Through Year One,” FiveThirtyEight, ABC News, January 22, 2018, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/across-all-parties-ages-and-races-trump-is-less-popular-with-women-than-with-men/.
  2. Andrea Park, “#MeToo Reaches 85 Countries with 1.7M Tweets,” CBS News, October 24, 2017, www.cbsnews.com/news/metoo-reaches-85-countries-with-1-7-million-tweets/.
  3. Nikki Graff, “Sexual Harassment at Work in the Era of #MeToo, Pew Research Center, April 4, 2018, www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/04/04/sexual-harassment-at-work-in-the-era-of-metoo/.
  4. Melanie Heenan and Suellen Murray, “Study of Reported Rapes in Victoria 2000-2003” (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: Office of Women’s Policy, 2006), 20.
  5. D. Lisak, L. Gardinier, S. C. Nicksa, and A. M. Cote, “False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases,” Violence Against Women 12 (December 2010): 1318–34.
  6. Kate Gilmore and Lise Pittman, “To Report or Not Report: A Study of Victims/Survivors of Sexual Assault and Their Experience of Making an Initial Report to the Police” (Carlton, Victoria, Australia: CASA House, 1993), 11–12.
  7. Liz Kelly, “The (In)credible Words of Women: False Allegations in European Rape Research,”Violence Against Women 12 (December 2010): 1372–74.
  8. Liz Kelly,Routes to (In)justice: A Research Review on the Reporting, Investigation and Prosecution of Rape Cases (London: University of North London, 2001), 22–23, www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/cjji/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Rapelitrev.pdf.
  9. Lisa Lazard, “Here’s the Truth About False Accusations of Sexual Violence,” Independent, November 27, 2017.
  10. Emily Chang, Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2018), 6–7.
  11. National Girls Collaborative Project, “Resources-Statistics-Stem Workforce,” 2016, https://ngcproject.org/statistics.
  12. Maeve Duggan, “Online Harassment,” Pew Research Center, October 22, 2014, www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/.
  13. Michael Kimmel, Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era (New York: Nation Books, 2013), 284.
  14. Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America: A Cultural History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 297.
  15. Alysse ElHage, “Boys in Crisis: An Interview with Warren Farrell,” Institute for Family Studies, March 9, 2017, https://ifstudies.org/blog/boys-in-crisis-an-interview-with-warren-farrell.
  16. Barbara Boxer, The Art of Tough: Fearlessly Facing Politics and Life (New York: Hachette Books, 2016), 3.
  17. Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 147–48.
  18. Condoleezza Rice, Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2011), 33.
  19. Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), 14.
  20. Gretchen Carlson, Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take Your Power Back (New York: Center Street, 2017), 14.
  21. “Data About Men Teachers: The Percentage of Male Teachers by Year in United States,” MenTeach—U.S. Bureau of Data Statistics, 2017, www.menteach.org/resources/data_about_men_teachers.
  22. “Traditional and Nontraditional Occupations,” Women’s Bureau, United States Department of Labor, 2014, www.dol.gov/wb/stats/nontra_traditional_occupations.htm.
  23. Ariane Hegewisch and Emma Williams, “The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation 2017 and by Race and Ethnicity,” Institute for Women’s Policy Research, April 9, 2018, https://iwpr.org/publications/gender-wage-gap-occupation-2017-race-ethnicity/.
  24. Claire Cain Miller, “Pink-Collar Work: Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Mostly Done by Women,” New York Times, January 4, 2017.
  25. Kimberly Lawson, “Why Many Men Would Rather Be Unemployed Than Do ‘Women’s Work,’” Broadly, January 6, 2017.
  26. Carolyn Jones, “Girls Draw Even with Boys in High School STEM Classes, but Still Lag in College and Careers,” EdSource, March 12, 2017.
  27. Andrea Widener, “Sexual Harassment Pervasive in Science,” Chemical and Engineering News, June 18, 2018.
  28. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2018), 67–91.
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  1. Yoni Blumberg, “Companies with More Female Executives Make More Money—Here’s Why,” CNBC, March 2, 2018, www.cnbc.com/2018/03/02/why-companies-with-female-managers-make-more-money.html.
  2. Marcus Noland, Tyler Moran, and Barbara Kotschwar, “Is Gender Diversity Profitable? Evidence from a Global Survey,” Peterson Institute for International Economics, February 2016, https://piie.com/publications/working-papers/gender-diversity-profitable-evidence-global-survey.
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  4. Chang-Tai Hsieh, et al., “The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth,” Paris Institute of Political Studies, February 22, 2013, www.sciencespo.fr/newsletter/actu_medias/8466/erik-hurst.pdf.
  5. Pat Wechsler, “Woman-Led Companies Perform Three Times Better Than the S&P 500,” Fortune, March 3, 2015.
  6. Gloria Steinem, in conversation with the author, East Bay Women’s Conference, San Ramon, CA, March 2012.