Rather than tell a single woman to change, we need to keep focused on the entire system. This year marked five years since the publication of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. It quickly became part of the zeitgeist, an offhand reference to the work women must do to succeed […]
Is our sub-par family leave legislation supposed to be equally dismal for men and women? Is this the measure of equality? Today, August 26, is Women’s Equality Day. Hooray for one day! Forgive my cynicism. I’ve long been convinced that true equality requires evolution, and the existing generations are a lost cause. Sexism is far […]
Women are only allowed to like movies about women, because apparently, it’s all we can understand, according to film critic Kyle Smith. Kyle Smith’s rant about how women can’t understand the movie Goodfellas in the New York Post last week is eye-roll inducing to say the least. Yes, I think it is a great film, […]
This originally appeared on The FBomb. Republished here with permission. Teaching young men and women how to care for themselves ensures their self-sufficiency. Home Economics, renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994, had its heyday in the mid-1900s. It was taught in almost all schools and offered as a major in college. Unfortunately, despite being conceived […]
For so long, we’ve heard how working mothers struggle with juggling it all, having it all, and creating that work-life balance. Who ever said that men don’t want the same things? If you ask a working mother what her top priority is, she would probably tell you that it’s her family. Ask a working dad, […]
New research says women are lied to and taken advantage of in negotiations more often than men simply because they’re women. Sit at the table. Smile. Act like a lady. What have these tidbits of advice gotten women? You tell me. No matter how much we educate ourselves, no matter how often we sit at […]
This originally appeared on BossedUp.org. Republished here with permission. The same qualities deemed necessary for leadership in our culture are positively correlated with likeability for men and negatively correlated with likeability for women. Lean in, they say. Crack the confidence code, we’re told. Boss up, we say, by investing in your personal sustainability to achieve […]
