A New Vision for Retirement:
Productive and Meaningful
Marc Freedman
Encore.org
As the great midlife migration of baby boomers gathers momentum and scale, long-predicted revolutions in longevity and demography are unfolding in front of us. By 2015 we’ll have more Americans over 60 than under 15 — and that’s just the beginning. Demographers are predicting that more than half the children born in the developed world since 2000 will live to 100.
At the Frontlines of the Women’s Movement
Suzanne Braun Levine
Next Avenue
The first editor of Ms. magazine shares her war stories, timed to PBS’ important new documentary on feminism, ‘Makers’
Life was a lot different when I was a young woman in the early ’60s. If I was looking for a job, it was in the “Help Wanted/Female” pages. If I needed a bank loan, I had to get my husband’s signature. “MS” stood for multiple sclerosis. And women wearing pants were routinely turned away from restaurants and clubs.
Why Men Need to Talk to Each Other
About Love, Sex and Intimacy
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
Frequently after I have talked about the challenging changes and opportunities that are confronting women at a lecture, a man will come up to me and say, “Why don’t you do your next book about men? We are going through a lot of the same transitions that women are.” To which I always reply that a book about men in Second Adulthood has to be written by a man. My main credential for explaining things is that I am on the same trajectory as the women I write about. It would be presumptuous to try to explain men to men.
STRIKE, DANCE! Eve Ensler’s
One Billion Rising/ Feb. 14. 2013
Marianne Schnall
Women’s Media Center
On February 14, V-Day’s Eve Ensler calls on “one billion women and those who love them” to rise up to confront violence against women.
I was in the room 15 years ago, when activist and playwright Eve Ensler announced her intention to use proceeds from her award winning play “The Vagina Monologues” as a vehicle to raise funds and awareness to stop violence against women. That night, V-Day, the global initiative to end violence against women and girls, was born.
SPECIAL TREAT! WMC “LIVE”
WITH ROBIN MORGAN!
It’s a special treat to be interviewed by a dear friend, long-time colleague, and inspiring visionary; it was also an honor to be invited to share my ideas with her on “WMC LIVE with Robin Morgan,” which regularly features fascinating and brave women from around the world. My favorite features, though, are those in which Robin takes on language. In this show she is particularly astute when she suggests we abandon the term “cougar” and replace it with “Colette” as in the older major French writer who regularly took young lovers, much to their delight as well as her own. — Suzanne Braun Levine