I’m just old enough (or young enough, depending on how you look at it) to remember the waning days of the sexist job interview. As a law student and lawyer, I remember reading the do’s and don’ts of what to ask or how to respond. For female candidates, there were many no-nos: Never ask about marital status […]
Mike McQueary has been vehemently criticized for his response to witnessing Jerry Sandusky’s rape of a ten year-old boy on a Friday night in March 2002. People universally agree that McQueary should have put a stop to the rape rather than leave “distraught.” As it turns out, an anonymous friend recently leaked an email from […]
I’ve been wrestling with the intersection of gender and the Occupy movement since I saw a picture of topless women dancing in Zuccotti Park during week two of Occupy Wall Street. The prominent display of this photograph on one of the Occupy websites angered me, as did the shallowness of equating activism to the hippie period […]
Gender diversity is good for business. As a 2010 McKinsey Global Survey reported, 72 percent of executives “believe there is a direct connection between a company’s gender diversity and its financial success.” The study also noted that companies with the greatest gender diversity had better than average operating results and returns on equity. Yet, despite […]
This piece was originally posted on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. As we continue to assess the fall-out from the Penn State scandal, a near-consensus has developed that “Old Boys’ Networks” are a huge part of the problem. Whether they’re found in corporations or athletic departments or churches, Old Boys’ Networks often tend […]
It’s been weeks since the Penn State child molestation scandal broke and most of my fellow alums are ready to move on. They’re done condemning the riot and commending the candlelight vigil, finished with the Facebook trolling and the self-congratulatory donations to RAINN. They flip the dial when NPR moves from Egypt to Happy Valley, […]
This piece was originally published on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. On our first date three years ago, my husband Geof told me where he went to college, what he did for a living, that he was involved in climate activism, that he was allergic to wheat, and that his younger brother had […]
A few months ago, while waiting in line for coffee, I overheard the two men behind me discussing a recent break-up one of them had gone through. It sounded like a typical case of one person being more “in” the relationship than the other. There was no bad guy and no one to blame; the […]
My friend, you are not a feminist, but you may be the best one I know. It recently occurred to me the number of incredible women I have in my life. I also realized that as I’ve gotten older my friendships with women have taken on a deeper meaning. I’m not sure when exactly it […]
This piece originally appeared on the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. When I was 18, I waited tables at an Italian restaurant in my hometown. The staff was the typical collection of teenagers, college drop-outs, townies, and single moms you’d expect at a suburban casual dining establishment. Our boss, Jeff, was an outrageous flirt, […]
Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling grows up and discovers his feminist side. Hey Girl, if I told you that you had a hot body, would you hold it against me? Now what if I was Ryan Gosling, and asked you the same question? Maybe I could throw in some feminist theory and assure you that all […]
The Republican primaries are in full swing and the whole world is watching. After all, whoever is elected to retain or take up residence in the White House is an important issue for us non-U.S. folks as well. Looking back to three years ago I don’t think many would have predicted that Herman Cain would […]
