Last week I attended my first BlogHer conference, in San Diego. It was a trip. Thousands of women in cute summer dresses and shimmering lip gloss descended on the convention center ready to learn and network and maybe even pick up a new product sponsor. (Something about big groups of women makes me self-conscious about [...]
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This is a provocative talk that Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) gave at the TEDWomen conference last year. If you haven’t seen it yet, definitely check it out. It’s about why we don’t have more women leaders. Some disturbing statistics: Of 190 heads of state, nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in [...]
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In March I wrote a post about how women are having fewer babies around the world, how this is creating a economic and culture crisis in some countries, and how our decision to have fewer children seems to be linked, in part, to our need for more family-friendly work policies. (Phew! That was a mouthful. [...]
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Last week I posted a story about how the birth rate is slowing down around the world, and how this in part relates to a kind of International Mommy Strike. (Studies show that when women are giving more support for working and raising families, the birth rate goes up closer to “replacement levels.”) If you’re [...]
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Why aren’t there more female superheroes? My friend, former housemate, and female superhero herself, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, is making a film about it. Watch the trailer, which includes interviews with Gloria Steinem, Lynda Carter, and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman): If you like what you see, donate to the Kickstarter campaign so she can finish the [...]
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Kids are on vacation. We’re laying low, playing board games, eating way too many leftover Christmas cookies, visiting the Oakland Zoo lights, and watching Elvis movies. (Who knew “Jailhouse Rock” was such a kid-pleaser?) I wasn’t planning to be on the blog at all this week. Then I read a book I enjoyed so much [...]
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As you may have heard, women still make only 77 cents on every dollar a man earns, and in recent years, progress on closing the pay gap has nearly ground to a halt. On Wednesday, the Paycheck Fairness Act, which was supposed to right this wrong, was defeated on the Senate floor. I’ll try not [...]
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JR is a 27-year-old guerrilla artist whose work has appeared all over the world. The video below shows one of his recent projects called “Women Are Heroes.” I first heard about it when JR won the TED Prize* last week. Never in a million years would I have thought that getting women who had been [...]
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My first semester in grad school for journalism, more than a decade ago, was a shock. Boom! Right from the beginning we had daily story deadlines. Each of us desperately wanted to prove ourselves to be the next Edward R. Murrow. None of us knew what we were doing. We were awestruck by our professors, [...]
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