Cassie Werber writes about renewable energy, politics and society, management and the arts for Quartz.
When companies suddenly moved to remote working, with no timeline as to when—or if—they’d be going back to the office, a likely casualty appeared to be corporate culture. How could compan...
“It was like the worst half hour of my life,” said Margaret Cox.
A woman walks into a bar and asks for gender equality. “Coming right up!” says the bartender, and disappears. He returns, 208 years later. “Sorry,” he tells the woman, “I had to go down t...
In theory, flexibility is firmly on the agenda for companies that want employees to thrive. Work that can bend can help people avoid burnout and navigate longer, more varied career paths....
“Burnout” is big this year. The term has been applied to everything from being tired at the weekend to the malaise of an entire generation.
On May 1, Penny Mordaunt became the UK’s first female defense secretary, managing a department with a yearly budget of about $47 billion. Her appointment means that, right now, the six bi...
To what extent does a person’s gender explain the way they seek employment? A large dataset released today by LinkedIn suggests there are some differences, and some of the most interestin...
Progress toward closing the gender pay gap, globally, is egregiously slow. This isn’t for lack of trying: Many companies and governments have gender equity high on their agendas and are m...
Much has been made of the ways a four-day work week could increase productivity and worker satisfaction. But the shift could also be a huge win for gender equality.
Perhaps as a counter to the panic that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs, consulting firm KPMG today published a list of what it predicts will soon become the five most sought-aft...
On average, men die younger than women. Men are also more likely than women to die prematurely, from causes ranging from alcoholism to heart disease to suicide.
Becoming a parent is full of contradictions: It’s a time in life when love and meaning and joy crash headlong into worry and exhaustion, so much so that some new parents struggle to maint...
Producing more stuff takes more energy. Using more energy means more pollution. That statement would once have seemed like common sense.
It’s 1974. A man stands on the Scottish coast and stares out to sea. His dark hair is ruffled by the wind, while his mind is fixed on a new, pressing problem: How can all the teeming, cra...
“Twenty years ago Europeans were still teaching China how to draft environmental law.”
