It’s Not a Man’s World or a Woman’s Nation
You’re going to be seeing a multimedia blitz about a new national study of women’s status called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Gloria Steinem gives you a preview of this project created by Maria Shriver and a D.C. think tank, and suggests ways you can use it and also judge its success. […]
“MARRYING GEORGE CLOONEY: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis” – A New Book by Amy Ferris
Good Natured Hysteria – Shaken and Stirred with Hilarity and Honesty! Some of the best laughs I have experienced in the last decade have been with my girlfriends about the absurd things that are happening to our bodies and our minds. We are laughing at the absurdity of it all, and we are laughing with […]
What Were Laura Ling And Euna Lee Looking For In North Korea?
The Women’s Media Center Exclusive Provides Answers Like many of you, I am sure, I kept wondering as I read about the American journalists who were arrested by North Korea, tried, sentenced and finally released, what prompted these two women to leave their families (especially a young child) to venture to the Korean peninsula […]
THE URGE TO SHAKE THINGS UP –
WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD
DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEAR OR WELCOME CHANGE? Second Adulthood is all about change. It’s about a restlessness that creates a non-specific “itch” to make changes. Life in the Fertile Void, as I call this period, may feel like a free fall; it is alternately exhilarating and terrifying. The changes you choose to […]
CAN MEN HAVE IT ALL?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN
PUT FAMILY FIRST?
5 Organizations that Support Fathers & Families In 2000, my book “Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First” was published. It was the result of my exploration into the uncharted territory of “shared parenting.” There were pioneers everywhere, but they were few and far between. As I wrote then, “My first clue was […]
“Do Unto Yourself as You Have Been Doing Unto Others”
A Message For Mother’s Day! Lesson Number Six in FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY is ”Do Unto Yourself as You Have Been doing Unto Others.” What that means is simply pay attention to – nurture – yourself the way you do those you love. It does not mean withholding from others or being selfish. Doing […]
EYE CONTACT/“I-CONTACT”
Internet Intimacy is New for Me When my kids were younger and I wanted to have a difficult conversation with one of them, I would wait until we were driving alone in the car. I found that it was easier for me to broach the subject when my gaze was fixed on the road, and […]
A NEW FUND TO HONOR GLORIA STEINEM To Celebrate her Activism and 75th Birthday!
“I AM BECOMING MORE RADICAL WITH AGE.” — Gloria Steinem To celebrate Gloria’s 75th Birthday and to honor her unique and transformational work as an organizer and activist in the women’s and broader social justice movements, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Inc. has established The Gloria Steinem Fund for Organizing. Gloria has traveled the United […]
Having it all
Bella Abzug – the shrewd, hard-hitting, passionate and idealistic legislative genius who led the women’s movement and represented New York in Congress – once remarked that we would only have true gender equality when an incompetent woman could go as far as an incompetent man. That milestone appears to have been achieved with the nomination […]
The Bella factor
I have spent the last three years immersed in a book on the life of Bella Abzug (1920-1998), the peace activist, feminist, civil rights lawyer, and fearless congresswoman from New York. (She ran for office for the first time at age 50 – take heed, sister Boomers!) Now that it is about to come out, […]