Research shows that most people don’t see sexism even when it’s right in front of their noses. Sexist behavior, such as the man who parked his car and refused to pay me when I was a running a car lot because “women can’t work in parking lots,” is usually easy to spot. But, in general, sexism, so densely […]
I am where I am today—a happily married mother—because of all the decisions I’ve made in my life. And those decisions included two abortions. I have made no mistakes. Well, in retrospect—because how else should one determine a mistake—all the mistakes I have made, whether large or small, have brought me to where I am […]
Feminism is about eradicating social, political, and economic discrimination facing women and advocating for equality and equity among humans. So why all the bad press? As a child, particularly one raised in a single-parent household, it was always apparent that women were equal to men. As I witnessed my mother working two jobs, preparing three-course […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Motherhood Isn’t The ‘World’s Toughest Job’ by Mary Elizabeth Williams of Salon says: An ad goes viral—and is an insult to both men and women. 2. How Working Women Help The Economy by Annie Lowrey […]
Because we don’t ask the questions, are we depriving dads of the opportunity to share their challenges? Are we insulting men by implying that parenthood matters less than it does to their spouses? Few things annoy me more than when we take the accomplishments of brilliant, creative, ambitious women and boil them down into a […]
I’m a full-time stay-at-home dad. Is my ultimate paternity leave from academia disqualified from being called a “success” story? Does that depend on who defines the word? Paternity leave can be a tricky topic, as former football star Boomer Esiason recently discovered. Now a CBS analyst and WFAN radio show host, Esiason caused a firestorm when […]
Virtually every new TV show reminds me that I do not belong to a coveted target audience, and that the white male perspective is still considered universally applicable. Last Thursday, news that CBS had picked Stephen Colbert to be the next host of “The Late Show” swept through social media. While some expressed excitement about the comedic […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Some traditions should never have taken off in the first place. 1. National Proposal Day Ladies, are you tired of being left on the shelf? Have you been shacked up with your beloved for years and he’s still not willing to put a ring on it? Why not […]
