My mother, who was born on the fourth of July, told me when I was little that everyone in the country celebrated her birthday. I decided she must be very famous and much loved. While age brought understanding of her joke, the image of my mother as someone who deserved love and fame never diminished [...]

When Women Don’t Ask co-author Linda Babcock was director of a Ph.D. program, "a delegation of women graduate students came to her office. Many of the male graduate students were teaching courses of their own, the women explained, while most of the female graduate students had been assigned to work as teaching assistants to regular [...]