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"Snapshot of the New Workplace: Karen Owen's PowerPoint"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "For those of you who missed it, Karen Owen, a student at Duke University, sent a  summary of her sex life to some friends, via email. The content is not safe for work, but it looks safe because it's in PowerPoint. She got bulleted lists, charts and graphs - how can you not admire a woman who can graph her sex life? 

Owen's sex life is a workplace issue. For one thing, it was the third most searched topic on Google yesterday, which means a large percentage of people were reading her slideshow while at work. But more importantly, Owen's slides capture the shift in women's empowerment, which is happening at the workplace and having the ripple effect of empowering women in sex. Owen's slides make me excited about the new generation of women and how much they take their own power for granted. I'm excited to see what they will do with it. 

Here are some things to think about when you read her slides: 

1. She used PowerPoint in a revolutionary way... 

2. She illustrates why men are afraid of twentysomething women... 

3. The rules are all different..."

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 9 October 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author. 

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).