The War Against Families: What Women, Parents and Boomers Have in Common
By Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post 50
In her widely debated new book Lean In, Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg called it “the ultimate chicken and egg situation.” She is talking about the endless back and forth about what is holding women back from Having It All, whether the system needs to change in order for women to get ahead or whether women need to get ahead to change the system.
Mary Eileen Williams to Lead Take Action Workshop!
By Ann Voorhees Baker
Women at Woodstock 2013
So happy to be able to share this great news on my site! I love my radio programs with Eileen on “Feisty Side of Fifty” radio and am glad I will seeing her the West Coast (July 28-31,2013) and East Coast (October 6-9, 2013) Women at Woodstock retreats for women 50 (or so) & up — Suzanne Braun Levine
You Gotta Have Girlfriends – A Post-Fifty Posse Is Good For Your Health – My First Ebook Coming Soon!
Suzanne Braun Levine
Open Road Integrated Media
You Gotta Have Girlfriends – A Post-Fifty Posse is Good For Your Health is the fourth installment of my on-going exploration of women’s lives after fifty – the stage known as Second Adulthood – and my first ebook. The book will be available on April 16th from my digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media, a company co-founded and run by my friend Jane Friedman, the CEO.
The special nature of our friendships with women – Our Circle of Trust – is one of the main themes in all my books, blogs, lectures, and interviews and it is at the core of the on-going story of my generation as we grow, change, age, and discover our authentic selves.
HOW WE LOVE NOW…
What’s Changed?
A Conversation with
Suzanne Braun Levine
Q. What do you think are the major changes or shifts that occur for women in second adulthood when it comes to relationships?
A. By the time women reach second adulthood, they have accumulated confidence and they are beginning to know what they want in a relationship. We are less needy, we’re about finding, not losing, ourselves in a relationship. Women say they feel more empowered to set the terms in a new relationship or to renegotiate a long-term marriage. Our requirements have shifted. The thoughtful man with a Ph.D. In life experience becomes more appealing as we age – not like old days when the “bad boy” was the sexy choice. By the time we’re fifty we know what love is and what it isn’t.
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
LEARNING TO APPRECIATE THE BODY YOU HAVE
by Suzanne Braun Levine
Next/Avenue®
Years from now you’ll wish you looked this good, so show your body the respect it deserves…
One of the peculiarities of being an older mother is that your children see your younger self as a stranger. Any photograph in which I appear chic or sexy or simply young elicits the same stunned response from my 26-year-old daughter: “Is that you?” She can’t picture me actually wearing the hip ’60s clothing that I pull out to impress her, especially since I can’t even get any of it over my head now.