New Overtime Rules Raise Pay

An estimated four million people will benefit from new Labor Department rules that raise the threshold for paid overtime from less than $455 per week to $913 per week. Employers can raise these workers’ salaries to make them exempt from the overtime threshold, pay the mandated time-and-a-half overtime for those who do work more, or simply make sure employees aren’t working overtime, Cale Guthrie Weissman reports.

Women Dress Codes at Work: High Heels Say It All

The history of women’s dress codes in the workplace—especially in the corporate world — is long and has a sexualized element to it, according to this piece. Women are scrutinized far more than men for what they wear and high heels epitomize the lose-lose nature of getting the dress code right.

Tips On What Not to Say If You Get Fired

Getting fired is knew of the more stressful things in life, and when it happens the temptation is to say all kinds of things. But in this piece, Jacqueline Smith lists 13 things people have said — and later regretted — after they’ve gotten the boot.

It’s a Myth that Financial Services Is Not a Place for Women

I’m proud that I’ve spent my career in financial services working to help people. Often companies in this industry are wrongly associated with Wall Street stereotypes — fast-talking, slick suits, backroom deals, and number crunching. That’s not the world we live in at Fidelity. Our core mission remains unchanged: we have a steadfast commitment to our customers (everyday people of all walks of life) to help them manage their savings and investments with a transparent, value-added approach so they can live the lives they dream of.

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Book Looks at Women Police Officers

They were called sleuths in skirts, guardettes, copettes, and police in petticoats. It would be a long time—well over 150 years—before women in law enforcement were known simply as police officers. Balancing the stories of trailblazers from the past with those of today, Women in Blue: 16 Brave Officers, Forensics Experts, Police Chiefs, and More (Chicago Review Press) Cheryl Mullenbach profiles 16 women’s stories as civil servants. We talked briefly to her.

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Bias Still Persists for Women

Two decades after Wall Street firms rushed to begin anti-harassment training, employee hotlines and programs to recruit women, complaints by women persist about pay and promotion disparities, The New York Times reports.