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 […]
If bossy is for little girls beginning to experience their power, bitter is for women who have realized theirs. Bossy. It’s a word preferred and often reserved for women and little girls—especially little girls. While all kids can be bratty, selfish, and get angry, bossy has an insidious gendered quality to it. So much so, […]
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, […]
Women are still fighting against gender discrimination, yet they’re using valuable energy and resources to also improve the lives of the people doing the discriminating. Right now there are at least three campaigns that were started by female-led, dare I say “feminist,” organizations to help men. Finally! Finally ladies have realized the error of their […]
The sooner we admit that nobody builds anything on their own, the sooner we fairly recognize the work of women, and anyone else crushing it behind the scenes. It’s been an interesting week in my office. I recently learned that we employ a company to come in and take care of our plants. While I’m plugging […]
Thanks for not opening the door. For not picking up the check. For treating us as equals and letting us help without it calling your masculinity into question. “Behind every great man is a great woman.” I’ve heard this saying my whole life, but never have I heard the flipside: Behind every great woman is […]
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 […]
Feminism has grown, evolved, expanded, and it no longer fits behind the pretty, white, straight face of its early champions, says Emily Heist Moss. Gloria Steinem turned 80 today. She began her ninth decade with a trip to Botswana and a lionizing birthday card from the New York Times’ Gail Collins in which Collins referred […]
I define bossy to mean carrying a ferocious work ethic, being a person of conviction, and having a clear vision of how to solve problems. Much digital ink has been spilled over the Ban Bossy campaign—both for and against the campaign. I honestly felt a little betrayed by the Girl Scouts when I read about […]
