Doing whatever I want doesn’t automatically make me a feminist. I’m a feminist because I advocate for a world in which every woman has the freedom and resources to do the same. When my partner and I started talking about having a baby—how it would change our lives, what we would need to do to […]
The sexism and discrimination women face in the workplace is often a compilation of little acts; subtle things that, on their own, seem insignificant, but when taken as a whole, point to how our culture still enforces outdated stereotypes. When Ellen Pao, a California business woman, faced gender discrimination at work, she decided to do […]
If women working as writers becomes a normal idea, maybe the idea of women being valued members of any profession will become normal, as well. Once, when my oldest son was in first grade, he gave me a pretty stellar dressing down regarding a Dr. Seuss party at his school. I’d volunteered to do the […]
