The Toxic Culture Gap Shows Companies Are Failing Women | Why Do I Beat Myself Up? | Betty Friedan and America’s forgotten feminists

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Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The Toxic Culture Gap Shows Companies Are Failing Women - MIT Sloan Management Review    According to the most recent "Women in the Workplace" report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey, the gap between men and women leaving their jobs is the largest it has been since the report was first published eight years ago.1 For every female director who is promoted, two women at the same level of seniority choose to quit. The exodus of female leaders, which has been dubbed the Great Breakup, is attributable in part to the persistent gap in pay between men and women. Unequal compensation remains a critical pain point for many women, but corporate culture can exert an even more profound influence on how they experience the workplace. According to Rachel Thomas, CEO of LeanIn.Org and a coauthor of the report, women are leaving companies that fail to deliver on "the cultural elements of work that are critically important to them." Continued here Why Do I Beat Myself Up? - Psychology Today    Sigmund Freud's (1959) concept of the trio of inner representations, i.e., the id, ego, and superego, is one model for understanding why self-criticism can spiral out of control. The superego—that reprimanding and critical inner voice that serves to override the impulsive and immature urge of the id and to keep the mediator, the ego, pinged by the guilt or shame—could be the core to how we come to beating up ourselves. A negative introject is an early critical voice that reflects the incorporation of a reprimanding significant other into the psyche. Unfortunately for some, the scope and degree of their self-criticism are not always benign and results in significant harm. Psychoanalysts suggest that this superego reflects early internalization of our caretakers. If the internalized caretaker is harsh, then a punitive superego may develop. Continued here Betty Friedan and America's forgotten feminists - The Economist    Betty Friedan: Magnificent Disrupter. By Rachel Shteir. Yale University Press; 384 pages; $27. To be published in Britain in November; £18.99 Ask an enlightened twenty-something of either sex if he or she is a feminist, and you may get a resounding “Yes!” Ask this feminist to name someone famous for being a feminist, and you will draw a blank stare. Feminism is hotter than ever, but the women who created modern feminism are often forgotten. It is in the nature of the activist to believe that she is the first to see a particular injustice. “Don’t trust anybody over 30,” said a free-speech campaigner, Jack Weinberg, in 1964. Today the brush-off “OK, boomer” sends a similar message. Continued here

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