Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal - and equally capable - partner. And if that's not enough, bear in mind that a study found that wives who engage in gatekeepin...
As Allen Rucker wrote about his paralysis, I won’t make your skin crawl by saying it’s a ‘blessing in disguise.’ It’s not a blessing and there is no disguise. But there are things to be gained and thi...
As Sharon Poczter, professor of economics at Cornell, explains, The antiquated rhetoric of ‘having it all’ disregards the basis of every economic relationship: the idea of trade-offs. All of us are de...
As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school’s computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.14
As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. I have seen so many women inadvertently discourage their husbands from doing their share by being too controlling or critic...
Ask a man to explain his success and he will typically credit his own innate qualities and skills. Ask a woman the same question and she will attribute her success to external factors, insisting she d...
Asking for input is not a sign of weakness but often the first step to finding a path forward.
At Dave’s funeral, I said that if on the day I walked down the aisle with him, someone had told me that we would have only eleven years together, I would still have walked down that aisle. Eleven year...
Avoiding feelings isn’t the same as protecting feelings.
Because the vast majority of leaders are men, it is not possible to generalize from any one example. But the dearth of female leaders causes one woman to be viewed as representative of her entire gend...
Blaming our actions rather than our character allows us to feel guilt instead of shame.
But a communal approach is not enough. According to Professor Bowles, the second thing women must do is provide a legitimate explanation for the negotiation.21 Men don’t have to legitimize their negot...
But when it comes to integrating career and family, planning too far in advance can close doors rather than open them. I have seen this happen over and over. Women rarely make one big decision to leav...
Cancer is another forbidden or whisper topic. I read about a writer named Emily McDowell who said the worst part of being diagnosed with lymphoma wasn’t feeling sick from chemo or losing her hair. It...
Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself—traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls’ academic gains have not yet translated into...
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder. As Lori describes it, ladders are limiting—people can move up or down, on or off. Jungle gyms offer more creative exploration. There’s only one way to get to th...
Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb, founders of Negotiating Women, Inc., describe this as the Tiara Syndrome, where women expect that if they keep doing their job well someone will notice them and plac...
Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.13
Currently, only 24 percent of women in the United States say that they consider themselves feminists. Yet when offered a more specific definition of feminism--A feminist is someone who believes in soc...
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