Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
@amydiehl.bsky.social
📖 GLASS WALLS, CIO, Gender Bias Expert, Researcher, Consultant, Speaker, Traveler, Cyclist, Feminist, Equalist. She/Her/Dr. https://amy-diehl.com
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D.
@amydiehl.bsky.social
· Jun 15
Happy 2 year bookiversary to GLASS WALLS! To women: you are not alone. To everyone: together we will shatter gender bias. amy-diehl.com/book
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On hustle culture, I told Bamboo HR News, "If your employees can’t take a two-week vacation without work grinding to a halt, then you don’t have enough staff."
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November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
On hustle culture, I told Bamboo HR News, "If your employees can’t take a two-week vacation without work grinding to a halt, then you don’t have enough staff."
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Study of parents in remote-first organizations finds mothers expanded their labor in both the work and family domains, but fathers use their new-found flexibility to lean into their parenting roles instead of merely expanding their paid work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Study of parents in remote-first organizations finds mothers expanded their labor in both the work and family domains, but fathers use their new-found flexibility to lean into their parenting roles instead of merely expanding their paid work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Study finds people overestimated a company’s gender diversity after learning there were women in top mgmt, which led to less likelihood of hiring a woman. A few prominent examples can create the illusion that equality has been achieved, when it has not.
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
How Seeing Women In Power Can Slow Real Change, And What To Do About It
New research suggests the visibility of a few successful women may make people believe that sufficient equality has already been achieved, even when it hasn’t.
www.forbes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Study finds people overestimated a company’s gender diversity after learning there were women in top mgmt, which led to less likelihood of hiring a woman. A few prominent examples can create the illusion that equality has been achieved, when it has not.
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Study finds tubal ligations to permanently prevent pregnancy increased by 51% in 4 academic medical centers in PA, NY, FL & TN since Dobbs. A greater proportion were younger & had never given birth. Most worried their options would be limited in the future.
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More women sought permanent contraception after Supreme Court Dobbs decision | Penn State University
The number of women undergoing tubal ligations — a surgical procedure that permanently prevents pregnancy — increased across four academic medical centers in four states in the year after the Supreme ...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Study finds tubal ligations to permanently prevent pregnancy increased by 51% in 4 academic medical centers in PA, NY, FL & TN since Dobbs. A greater proportion were younger & had never given birth. Most worried their options would be limited in the future.
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www.psu.edu/news/researc...
Even in progressive places like Seattle, women are 'never quite right.' Colleagues have asked Monica Cisneros, a 10 yr Latina tech manager where she’s “really” from and have told her they don’t like her female voice & excluded her from deals because of it. www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...
Why DEI isn’t a success story at Seattle’s tech companies
Despite tech's successes, the industry has remained staggeringly white and male.
www.seattletimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Even in progressive places like Seattle, women are 'never quite right.' Colleagues have asked Monica Cisneros, a 10 yr Latina tech manager where she’s “really” from and have told her they don’t like her female voice & excluded her from deals because of it. www.seattletimes.com/business/tec...
"Conservative feminism" is not a thing. The patriarchy has learned to speak the language of empowerment. It borrows feminist words—“choice,” “agency,” “strength”—but drains them of their meaning, using them to defend inequality.
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When the Headline Gets It Wrong: Feminism Isn’t the Problem—Patriarchy Is
When I saw the headline “Did Women Ruin the Workplace? And if So, Can Conservative Feminism Fix It?” in The New York Times, my heart sank.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
"Conservative feminism" is not a thing. The patriarchy has learned to speak the language of empowerment. It borrows feminist words—“choice,” “agency,” “strength”—but drains them of their meaning, using them to defend inequality.
msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...
msmagazine.com/2025/11/08/c...
In 2024, the US female-to-male earnings ratio was 80.9%. For union workers, it was 87.1%. Women in unions have stronger employer-sponsored benefits, are more likely to have a pension or retirement plan, and to receive health insurance from their employer.
www.afscme.org/blog/unions-...
www.afscme.org/blog/unions-...
Unions are the best defense against the gender wage gap
Over the past two years, the gender pay gap has been widening — except for women workers who belong to unions.
www.afscme.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In 2024, the US female-to-male earnings ratio was 80.9%. For union workers, it was 87.1%. Women in unions have stronger employer-sponsored benefits, are more likely to have a pension or retirement plan, and to receive health insurance from their employer.
www.afscme.org/blog/unions-...
www.afscme.org/blog/unions-...
Single women: Think carefully before changing your name at marriage.
"I realized that I wasn’t actually doing this for myself or for my husband—I was just doing what I thought I should do." www.today.com/life/essay-l...
"I realized that I wasn’t actually doing this for myself or for my husband—I was just doing what I thought I should do." www.today.com/life/essay-l...
I took my husband's last name. Then I regretted it
I just need to get used to it, I kept telling myself.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Single women: Think carefully before changing your name at marriage.
"I realized that I wasn’t actually doing this for myself or for my husband—I was just doing what I thought I should do." www.today.com/life/essay-l...
"I realized that I wasn’t actually doing this for myself or for my husband—I was just doing what I thought I should do." www.today.com/life/essay-l...
On hustle culture, I told Bamboo HR News, "If your employees can’t take a two-week vacation without work grinding to a halt, then you don’t have enough staff."
newsroom.bamboohr.com/amy-diehl-wi...
newsroom.bamboohr.com/amy-diehl-wi...
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
On hustle culture, I told Bamboo HR News, "If your employees can’t take a two-week vacation without work grinding to a halt, then you don’t have enough staff."
newsroom.bamboohr.com/amy-diehl-wi...
newsroom.bamboohr.com/amy-diehl-wi...
White men make up a minority of the US workforce, but you wouldn't know it based on these images from the US Labor Department.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Labor Department social media campaign depicts a White male workforce
The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the country’s diversity and is sending messages that feel exclusionary.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
White men make up a minority of the US workforce, but you wouldn't know it based on these images from the US Labor Department.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
NYT: Did women ruin the workplace?
"A toxic workplace does not become toxic when the issue is vocalized; it was already toxic. The question desires to blame women for 'creating' the idea of toxic workplaces when these spaces were already ruined."
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"A toxic workplace does not become toxic when the issue is vocalized; it was already toxic. The question desires to blame women for 'creating' the idea of toxic workplaces when these spaces were already ruined."
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
Women of Vanity Fair Consider: Wait, Did We Ruin the Workplace?
Today, The New York Times published a conversation between the conservative columnist Ross Douthat and two writers about just how bad ladies have screwed up corporate culture with their presence. We f...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
NYT: Did women ruin the workplace?
"A toxic workplace does not become toxic when the issue is vocalized; it was already toxic. The question desires to blame women for 'creating' the idea of toxic workplaces when these spaces were already ruined."
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
"A toxic workplace does not become toxic when the issue is vocalized; it was already toxic. The question desires to blame women for 'creating' the idea of toxic workplaces when these spaces were already ruined."
www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...
For every company that is mandating RTO, there are others, like Cengage, who are going completely remote.
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www.boston.com/news/busines...
Education technology company to close Boston headquarters, embrace fully remote workplace
Cengage Group has based its corporate headquarters in Boston since 2014, with offices downtown and in Seaport.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For every company that is mandating RTO, there are others, like Cengage, who are going completely remote.
www.boston.com/news/busines...
www.boston.com/news/busines...
Today the economy is strong but >455K women have left the workforce since Jan, pushed out by return-to-office, public-sector layoffs, increasing childcare costs+gender pay gap+burden of unpaid eldercare. This isn’t a market failure; it’s a man-made crisis. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Today the economy is strong but >455K women have left the workforce since Jan, pushed out by return-to-office, public-sector layoffs, increasing childcare costs+gender pay gap+burden of unpaid eldercare. This isn’t a market failure; it’s a man-made crisis. thehill.com/opinion/fina...
The US had an additional 80K births from 2021 and 2025 when the pandemic ushered in remote work. Couples who work from home, even just one person person one day a week, are more likely to conceive & plan to have children than those who commute 5 days per week. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Could remote work fix America's baby bust? Some researchers think so
Researchers say remote and hybrid work schedules could increase the nation's fertility rate by making it easier for Americans to have babies.
www.usatoday.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The US had an additional 80K births from 2021 and 2025 when the pandemic ushered in remote work. Couples who work from home, even just one person person one day a week, are more likely to conceive & plan to have children than those who commute 5 days per week. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
In more examples of how women are considered 'never quite right', investors told female entrepreneurs things like, "You suffer from lack of grey hair syndrome" and "You need to act more like a man to show confidence that my money is safe with you."
www.thepersistent.com/female-found...
www.thepersistent.com/female-found...
'I Don't Invest in Mothers. I Expect Founders to Work'
8 Female entrepreneurs share shocking investor comments.
www.thepersistent.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In more examples of how women are considered 'never quite right', investors told female entrepreneurs things like, "You suffer from lack of grey hair syndrome" and "You need to act more like a man to show confidence that my money is safe with you."
www.thepersistent.com/female-found...
www.thepersistent.com/female-found...
Study (N=2,000) finds mothers do 67% more household mgmt than fathers. Largest gaps: family scheduling, managing cleaning, organizing childcare, managing social relationships & taking care of food. Fathers do more finance & home maint but gap is smaller.
theconversation.com/earning-more...
theconversation.com/earning-more...
Earning more doesn’t lighten mothers’ mental loads – they do more regardless
While mothers who earn more may be able to outsource some of the physical work in the household, the mental load is huge – and remains a barrier to gender equality.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Study (N=2,000) finds mothers do 67% more household mgmt than fathers. Largest gaps: family scheduling, managing cleaning, organizing childcare, managing social relationships & taking care of food. Fathers do more finance & home maint but gap is smaller.
theconversation.com/earning-more...
theconversation.com/earning-more...
Kristen Stewart: "I am not grateful to a boys' club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives. Let's try and not be tokenised. Let's start printing our own currency." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kristen Stewart 'so angry Hollywood has gone backwards' for women after MeToo boost
The star gives an impassioned speech saying progress for female film-makers has reversed in recent years.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Kristen Stewart: "I am not grateful to a boys' club business model that pretends to want to hang out with us while siphoning our resources and belittling our true perspectives. Let's try and not be tokenised. Let's start printing our own currency." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor and only the second woman to serve in the office. bit.ly/4i2tSIV
Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor
Sherrill, a Democratic member of Congress and ex-Navy helicopter pilot, will be the second woman to serve in the office.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill will be New Jersey’s next governor and only the second woman to serve in the office. bit.ly/4i2tSIV
After a streak of 74 male governors, Virginia has elected Abigail Spanberger (D). The US has had only 51 women governors in its history.
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Abigail Spanberger will be Virginia's first woman governor
The Henrico native will be the first governor from the Richmond area in over a decade.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:24 AM
After a streak of 74 male governors, Virginia has elected Abigail Spanberger (D). The US has had only 51 women governors in its history.
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www.axios.com/local/richmo...
The US military would not have been able to meet personnel needs w/o the disproportionate representation of women, Black Americans & Latinos since 1973 when the draft ended. The military embraced this diversity bc it was essential to its survival.
theconversation.com/the-military...
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The military’s diversity rises out of recruitment targets, not any ‘woke’ goals
Both men view diversity as a symptom of “woke” culture rather than as a long-standing practice driven by the nature of the all-volunteer force.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The US military would not have been able to meet personnel needs w/o the disproportionate representation of women, Black Americans & Latinos since 1973 when the draft ended. The military embraced this diversity bc it was essential to its survival.
theconversation.com/the-military...
theconversation.com/the-military...
Study of interviews with 64 middle-aged women senior leaders finds they purposely broke menopause taboos by talking about it at work, not just because it helped them through difficult days, but also because they knew their leadership roles protected them.
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
New Research on How Women in Leadership Navigated Menopause
Women who aspire to senior leadership roles face a number of systemic, gendered barriers. But a new study found that dealing with the symptoms of menopause doesn’t have to be one of them. Researchers ...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Study of interviews with 64 middle-aged women senior leaders finds they purposely broke menopause taboos by talking about it at work, not just because it helped them through difficult days, but also because they knew their leadership roles protected them.
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
Study of 6,400 US politicians finds men serving in "feeder" roles only a few years were more likely than women to run for higher office (governor or US Senate). This gender gap only disappeared when the women had served 8 - 9 years in office. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Research Shows Women Need Confidence To Advance—Here’s How To Get It
Women’s representation at the top of business and politics remains stubbornly low. New research may help explain why and what women and organizations can do about it.
www.forbes.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Study of 6,400 US politicians finds men serving in "feeder" roles only a few years were more likely than women to run for higher office (governor or US Senate). This gender gap only disappeared when the women had served 8 - 9 years in office. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
In Japan, 27% of young women want to leave their hometowns vs 15% of young men. Most women move to cities for better employment. Expectations that women prioritize housework & childcare diminish women's educational prospects, hence they leave rural areas. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g...
Gender inequality accelerates Japan's rural depopulation
Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are prompting young women to leave rural areas like this for opportunities else...
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In Japan, 27% of young women want to leave their hometowns vs 15% of young men. Most women move to cities for better employment. Expectations that women prioritize housework & childcare diminish women's educational prospects, hence they leave rural areas. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/g...
We have conversations about the cost of housing, gas, eggs. But the most costly item in a family's budget is child care.
We have a shortage of child care workers because we've never paid them adequately. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social @reshmasaujani.com
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We have a shortage of child care workers because we've never paid them adequately. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social @reshmasaujani.com
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Dealing with the crushing costs of child care
For some, the high cost of child care in the U.S. is a higher expense than rents and mortgages, or even in-state college tuition, and has pushed tens of thousands of women out of the workforce this ye...
www.cbsnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
We have conversations about the cost of housing, gas, eggs. But the most costly item in a family's budget is child care.
We have a shortage of child care workers because we've never paid them adequately. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social @reshmasaujani.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/dealing...
We have a shortage of child care workers because we've never paid them adequately. @reshmasaujani.bsky.social @reshmasaujani.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/dealing...
Menstrual cups reduce waste & are cost-effective. But some avoid them bc they require cleaning and can be messy to empty. To solve this, researchers coated a commercially available silicone cup in silicone oil and created a plant-based, absorbent tablet.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
Menstrual cup upgrades: Self-cleaning and sustainable design adjustments could make them easier to use
Reusable menstrual cups reduce waste and are more cost-effective than single-use pads and tampons. But some people avoid the cups because they require thorough cleaning and are sometimes messy to empt...
phys.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Menstrual cups reduce waste & are cost-effective. But some avoid them bc they require cleaning and can be messy to empty. To solve this, researchers coated a commercially available silicone cup in silicone oil and created a plant-based, absorbent tablet.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...