Introduction to Skirt! Rules...

skirt! Rules for the Workplace: An Irreverent Guide to Advancing Your Career is a real-life perspective on getting ahead in the workplace, with a humorous approach, for young (or not-so-young) women who want to know what they can do to close their own wage gap and break through the glass ceiling.

Look how far we’ve come: In this country, women can vote, drive cars, walk in public unaccompanied, run for office, run companies, and wear whatever the hell we want while we’re doing it. But it’s not far enough, baby, as long as there are women out there who have so few options that they take jobs that require them to perform the same tasks as their male counterparts, plus fetching coffee, stocking the office fridge, wiping the counters, and wearing pantyhose so no one has to be offended by a bare knee, all for approximately 70% of the male colleague’s salary.

Though women make up almost half of America's labor force (U.S. Department of Labor), only seven Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs or presidents, and 90 of those 500 companies don't have any women corporate officers (Catalyst.org). Young women are asking, “What can we do to make a difference?” skirt! Rules for the Workplace: An Irreverent Guide to Advancing Your Career has the answers—not for pulling off a one-woman revolution, but for each woman to make a change where it matters: At her job and in her bank account.