News

Opt-In Project in the News

• Life's Work: After Baby, Boss Comes Calling. The New York Times. May 17, 2007.
• Re-Designing the Career Ladder. The Wall Street Jouranl Blog "The Juggle." April 19, 2007.
• Heller Ehrman Opt-In Project Takes Next Step as Firm Hosts Roundtable
  to Explore Successful Tactics for Retaining Women. Businesswire, September 28, 2006.
• Unfinished Business: Obstacles to Advancement for Women Lawyers. Orange County Lawyer Magazine. August 2006.
• Opt-In Project Presents to the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. August 16, 2006.
• Legal Field Struggles to Retain Women. Daily Journal. June 29, 2006.
• CPL Conference Explores Challenges, Obstacles Facing Women Leaders
• Stanford Center on Ethics Opt Out Revolution

More Information on the Opt-Out Revolution

• The Forte Foundation.
• The Center for Work Life Policy.
• The Opt-Out Revolution, by Lisa Belkin. The New York Times. October 23, 2003
• Viable Solutions: Rethinking Women and Leadership, by Barbara Kellerman and Deborah Rhode. Compass Magazine Harvard's Center for Public Leadership.
• Clueless in Manhattan, by Joan Walsh. Salon Magazine. October 27, 2003.
• Is The Glass Ceiling a Matter of Choice?, by Cathy Young. Reason Magazine. November 4, 2003.
• There They Go Again: Discussion of The New York Times Magazine Cover Story, ‘The Opt-Out Revolution,' by Katha Pollitt. The Nation. November 17, 2003.
• Post Feminist Swill Redux, by Susan Douglas. In These Times Magazine. December 8, 2003.
• The Case for Staying Home, by Claudia Wallis. Time Magazine. March 22, 2004.
• Recycled Stereotyping, by Eileen McNamara. The Boston Globe. March 21, 2004.
• Off Ramps and On Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Harvard Business Review. March 2005.  (Order Form)
• We Can Stop the Female Brain Drain, by Sylvia Ann Hewlett. The Sunday Times (London). March 6, 2005.
• Opting Out; The Press Discovers the Mommy Wars, Again, by Cathy Young. Reason Magazine. June 2004.
• Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood, by Louise Story. The New York Times. September 20, 2005.
• Weasel Words Rip My Flesh: Spotting a Bogus Trend Story On Page One of the New York Times, by Jack Shafer. Slate Magazine. September 20th, 2005.
• A Trend So New It’s Old: More on the New York Times’ Career vs. Motherhood Debate, by Jack Shafer. Slate Magazine. September 23, 2005.
• Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League, by Katha Pollitt. The Nation. September 29, 2005.
• Feminism Revisited, by Cathy Young. The Boston Globe. December 19, 2005.
• Homeward Bound, by Linda Hirshman. The American Prospect. December 2005.
• Working It Out,  by Claudia Goldin first printed in The New York Times. March 15, 2006.
• The Myth of the Opt Out Mom, by Stephanie Coontz. Originally in the Christian Science Monitor. March 30, 2006.
• The Pushmipullyu of the Life-Work Conflict, by Lisa Belkin. The New York Times November 5, 2006.

Women in the Legal Profession

• Girls, Interrupted? Or, How can More Women Become Partners?, by Susan Estrich. JD Jungle. May 2001.
• Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms, by Timothy O’Brien. The New York Times. March 19, 2006
• The Opt-Out Alternative, by Martha Fay Africa. ABA Law Practice. April 2004.
• UC Hastings Center for Worklife Law
• ABA Commission on the Status of Women