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When you read the "About Me" section in Nancy Clark's blog Women's Lunch Talk you'll learn that in the sixties she was a physics and computer technology major at Berkeley. While the feminists were marching, she was in the library studying.
“I agreed with every principle they were fighting for, all the way down the line, but I was busy with my studies. I am very grateful to Gloria Steinem and the other courageous women who were strong enough to be out there speaking up, but I had the feeling that I wasn’t needed."
She didn't get involved in women's issues until several years later when the Chancellor at the University of California asked her to do a special project on gender and racial equity issues for staff and faculty.
For the last thirty years gender equality in the workplace has been Nancy’s main area of study.
Three years ago, Nancy Clark along with two friends,Dianne Schilling and Susanna Palomares started WomensMedia.com -- an online organization that:
provides the latest in-depth material to help working women advance. We promote a positive attitude in women, a respect for women’s talents, and a way out of the cycle of seeing women as victims. With the same positive attitude, we see men - with gender awareness - as our allies, helping remove obstacles to women in business. We give back to society through our own foundation, Computers Are For Girls.
Women's Lunch Talk is Nancy's blog that provides women with strategies to succeed.
Each post has three distinct sections: first there's the strategy which includes the latest research on the topic. Then she provices you with tips on how to implement the strategy and finally there is a lits of further reading on the topic. .
A recent topic focused on the issue of whether women can have it all. Clark says yes.
A University of California-Berkeley study found that at age 43 homemakers were more depressed and frustrated than working women. Working women had higher self-esteem and were happier.
So, the news today is: You can successfully have both a career and a marriage. And, guess what, you may end up happier, richer, and un-divorced.
In a post about why men seem to get more than women in business, Clark shares
Linda Babcock, while a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University, wondered why male graduate students in her department were teaching courses of their own while female graduate students were acting as teaching assistants to the regular faculty. To her surprise, she discovered that the men went to the department head with a class proposal in hand and a budget request—the women didn’t. It was not a case of discrimination. It was a case of women being naïve as to how the game can be played.
In explaining why she is writing Women's Lunch Talk Nancy says,
In the 1970’s I assumed we’d rapidly reach parity with men. It alarms me that young women are thinking the same thing today! I didn’t speak up then—but I now believe we each have to do our part—and now I’ll be speaking up every week. It’s not too late to make changes. We women are smart. We’ll look at the facts and scope out various ways to improve our situations. Each week I’ll give you the facts about a topic and some tips for you to try out.
Elana's blog FunnyBusiness focuses on business culture.
