Lisa Levey shares the story of Jennifer, a single mother by choice. The interview includes how she came to the decision, the process and everything she’s learned along the way. Eager to tell the real-life story of a single mother by choice, I interviewed Jennifer, a Boston area real estate professional. She’d always wanted to […]
This originally appeared on the Huffington Post. Republished here with permission. Where do our dreams for the perfect wedding come from? I found some answers to that tricky question recently, listening to a really smart undergraduate, Gillian Gualtera, defend her Sociology Honor’s thesis at Kenyon College. She presented some fascinating, and disturbing, answers after hundreds […]
The fact that Rachel Maddow recently admitted to suffering from depression makes her an even more likeable and better-suited cheerleader for today’s feminist cause, says Lynn Beisner. I know that this makes me a bad person, but the best news of my week was that Rachel Maddow suffers from depression. Don’t get me wrong, I […]
Kate McGuinness breaks down how the Affordable Care Act affects American women. Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court upheld the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The court’s narrow vote of 5 to 4 means millions of American women will have dramatically better health care. ObamaCare phases in over time. Under its provisions: ● […]
Clarisse Thorn discusses her own privilege, her dad, and The Little Mermaid in response to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” Atlantic article. When I read the recent, much-discussed piece by Anne-Marie Slaughter on “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” my reaction dovetailed with a lot of feelings I’ve been having about my […]
Lyla Cicero offers her fiery take on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Iceland, Germany, Japan, Malta, New Zealand, Latvia, Belarus, Moldova, Romania, Czhech Republic, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Ecuador, and a total of 178 countries have federally mandated paid maternity leave. Fifty of these countries offer leave to fathers. (Yes, they all […]
Katerina Zacharia’s son misses his daddy, but still considers his mommy—who often fills the role of both parents—a superhero. Yesterday was like any other day. I picked my son up from daycare. He jumped into my arms and I tossed him high up in the air a few times and carried him to the car…no […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. Study: After Giving Birth, New Moms Spend More Time on Facebook by Hans Villarica of The Atlantic says a small, exploratory study suggests that social media may be a new way for parents to get […]
Owen Marcus explores the benefits of men and women forming micro-communities, and shares how our ancestors got it right. We work hard in order to own more, do more, and be more. Much of the reason we don’t feel we have what we really want is because we are looking in the wrong place. The […]
Hugo Schwyzer discusses how sex, class, and ethnicity influence how we argue. As anyone who’s ever been in a serious relationship can tell you, one near-certain source of conflict comes from the simple truth that thanks to our experiences, we all see the world slightly differently. That’s obvious enough. But do women’s experiences—as women—give them […]
Kerry Cohen discusses how her father’s issues with women affected her childhood, her adult life, and her relationships. My sister and I grew up as teenagers in our father’s home. We lived in a three-bedroom apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, right across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, and I often gazed out my […]
Mothers aren’t always right. Lynn Beisner recalls an incident when a decision she made as a mother was wrong—very wrong—and her husband proved how skilled he was as a parent. Before the night of The Monsters Under the Bed Incident, which I will describe shortly, I believed that fathers were parents in name only. I […]
