Last week I posted the first half of my interview with Anea Bogue, the author of a fabulous book, 9 Ways We’re Screwing Up Our Girls and How We Can Stop. This week I’m so pleased to bring you the remainder of our conversation. Check out the book when you’ve finished - it’s an easy [...]
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9 Ways We’re Screwing Up Our Girls and How We Can Stop
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 [...]
A Long Time Comin’…
Ladies, we are in serious trouble here. In the annual ranking of 133 countries around the globe on the issue of gender equality, the U.S. once again fails to make the top 10. Or the top 20. We may be the world’s only remaining super power, but women are worse off here, according to the World Economic [...]
Climbing the Ladder to Beat the Clock
You would think it would be an easy sell. There is clearly a correlation between women in executive suites and on corporate boards and higher returns. When women serve on corporate boards, profits and productivity increase. Diversity of perspective and experience create better decisions, rigorously tested judgments, and high quality “thought capital”. The benefits of [...]
I See Sexism
Sometimes I think I’m going crazy, only I know I’m not because other women tell me they notice the same thing. It’s complicated, and it’s hard to keep it in focus sometimes, but it really is there. I don’t see dead people,. I don’t hear voices - I just see gender distinctions being made where other [...]
Women In, Then Out, of Business
I’m going to be talking to a roomful of women getting their MBA’s this week, and I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of good news for them. True, they are in an elite group of about the one-third of Americans with undergraduate degrees. They will outnumber their male counterparts when they receive their masters [...]
Guest Post : Mothers Out of Options, Not “Opting Out”
I came across this fabulous opinion piece by Sarah Kendzior, a St. Louis-based writer on the Al Jazeera site. She graciously allowed me to repost it here in full - it is THAT good. You can see it at its original home right here. Thanks, Sarah! “The choice that is not really a choice” is one [...]
Women in Congress
You can’t work in the social justice field like I do without celebrating small victories - most of the time, small may be the only kind of victory available! If you don’t make the most of little reasons to be happy, you just get burned out and depleted. There’s so much to accomplish you have [...]
How the Abortion Debate Is Used to Divide Women
“Women have the great power and honor of growing our future humans, giving life and birth to them. That kind of power must be wielded with dignity, self respect, and the knowledge that we have had the ultimate power all along. Oppression and inequality is only temporary. The day we realize our collective strength, is [...]
Heartbreak in New York
Funny how when women raise economic issues that have nothing to do with abortion, it still ends up being about abortion. Readers, gather ’round for a sad, sad story. The Governor of New York introduced a bill designed to promote women’s security in and out of the workplace called the Women’s Equality Agenda. It actually [...]
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