Singles in the Workplace
Are single people treated unfairly in the workplace? Here are some of my writings on this topic and other issues related to single people and their work and careers. SINGLISM…
Singles in the Workplace: Issues, Values, and Action
Questions about singles in the workplace are coming up more and more often. That’s a good thing. For too long, conversations about the workplace, and about achieving “balance,” have focused…
My Next Talk about Singles
On Monday October 17 at 2 pm, I’m giving a talk on singles at Loyola University in Chicago. It is open to the public. Here are the details.
Fantasies about Supporting Single People and Singles Advocacy
Writing about singles has been an enormously meaningful experience, but it has not been a lucrative one. I’ve had fantasies about making a mint on Singled Out or Singlism or…
SINGLISM Is Published!
“All Things Single” readers, I’m blogging to you first. My new book, Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matterse, and How to Stop It – written together with 28 other…
Barbara Walters Schools Piers Morgan on His Dopey, Intrusive, Matrimaniacal Questions
On February 2, as the protests on the streets of Egypt were riveting the nation and the world, Piers Morgan found time to ask Barbara Walters about the men in…
A Pioneering Woman Whose Husband Got the First Paragraph of Her Obituary
When I started high school in 1967, the principal was a no-nonsense woman named Eugenia DeFazio. Mrs. DeFazio, as we all called her, had already been the principal for 7…
Sweating the Small Stuff: Micro-Inequities and Micro-Affirmations
In my writing about singles, I’ve often pointed to the big ways that singles are targets of discrimination. Singles are discriminated against in the housing market, in ways that are…
This Married Man Described His Working Relationship as His Greatest Love Affair
As I’ve been working with Wendy Casper on our chapter about singles-friendly workplaces and reading relevant papers, I keep coming across the phrase “work-life balance.” I do realize that for…