I just loved reading Anea Bogue’s 9 Ways We’re Screwing Up Our Girls And How We Can Stop. As adults, we know women live in a trick bag of cultural mixed messages, unrealistic expectations, and damaging, persistent biases about what being a girl, a woman, and a mother “should” mean. Ms. Bogue points out that this process [...]
Archive | June, 2014
The White House Prom for Policy Nerds
The White House Working Families Summit was the biggest thing to happen here in ages for the circle of women’s rights advocates in which I orbit. So many things about it were right – a sense of jubilation, a racially and ethnically diverse group of attendees, a variety of ages, income levels, and a good [...]
Your (Wo)Man in Washington is @ White House Working Families Summit
Early Monday I’ll be heading downtown for the much anticipated Working Families Summit hosted by the White House, the Center for American Progress, and the US Department of Labor. There has never been a bigger event for work/family issues, gender equity, and women’s advocacy, and no other Administration has so identified with the challenge of [...]
“A Little Bit of Credit”…. For Dad
Mark Tyler and I have been talking about the ups and downs of being the at home parent. I asked him to write a post about his experience. After several weeks of writing between bouts of cooking, cleaning, hugging, story-telling, dressing, playing, undressing, bathing, brushing, combing, driving, picking up and putting away, he sent me [...]
Family Caregivers, the Future, and Now
My friend and colleague in the fight for family caregivers, Janice Lynch Schuster, recently had a conversation with her children about what may happen when she becomes older. It went like this, as Janice wrote in Fierce Urgency of Now: Family Caregivers and the Future that is Upon Us for the blog Disruptive Women in [...]
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