The Year of the Woman? Oy vey. It’s a phrase that’s always struck me as ridiculous. It would be one thing to declare it the Year of the Short, Redheaded, Left-Handed Woman, or the Year of the Unmarried, Urban-dwelling Thirtysomething Woman, or the Year of the Woman Who Doesn’t Want to Have It All, but, […]
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The Year of The Woman, and The Hefty Burden of Making Choices
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", being judged, culture, decision-making, feminism, life choices, why women?, tagged " New York Times Magazine, "Girls", 50 Shades of Grey, A.O. Scott, Ann Romney, Bechel test, being judged, breastfeeding, career, Child care, expectations, hollywood, juggling, Lena Dunham, marriage, Paula Broadwell, Rihanna, Sandra Fluke, tiger mother, Year of the Woman on December 11, 2012| 1 Comment »
Do Our Friends’ Choices Make Us Regret Our Own?
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", decision-making, grass-is-greener, identity, why women? on June 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Remember when you were a kid, and you wanted to pierce your belly button or stay out all night, and you’d say to your mom, “But mooooom, everyone else is doing it!”? And then she’d say, “If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you?” And then, if you were feeling especially petulant, you might […]
Feminista: Undecided Talks Feminism, Choices, and Having It All with Author Erica Kennedy
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, grass-is-greener, identity, purpose, too many choices, why women?, worklife balance, tagged Erica Kennedy, Feminista, Gloria steinem, grass-is-greener, have it all, the road not traveled, too many choices on December 21, 2009| 3 Comments »
Readers, we’ve missed you, but we promise we’re back — and we’ve returned bearing gifts, in the form of a Q&A with the sharp, funny, honest, and slightly potty-mouthed author Erica Kennedy, whose first novel, Bling, is a New York Times Bestseller. But we bring her to you because Sydney, the main character in her […]
Choices For All! Choices For All?
Posted in culture, feminism, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged choices, Council of Women World Leaders, Economix, Gender Gap Report, jezebel, Marcus Buckingham, New York Times, TIME Magazine, World Economic Forum on November 19, 2009| 5 Comments »
Marcus Buckingham has done it again. In this week’s HuffPo installment, Buckingham gets started by citing Time magazine’s special on the State of Women as saying that the gender war is over, and it was a tie. But Buckingham takes it one step further: I’m not so sure. In a war, no matter the outcome […]
Too Many Choices… In Bed
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", being judged, culture, grass-is-greener, the ticking clock, tagged analysis paralysis, divorce, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Elle, fear of commitment, grass-is-greener, Irina Aleksander, Lori Gottlieb, marriage, New York Observer, Prozac Nation, Sandra Tsing Loh, settling, The Atlantic, the road not traveled, too many choices on October 23, 2009| 5 Comments »
As it is in fortune cookies, so it is in women’s lives and the choices they face… which is to say that, while the greatest measurable strides we’ve made have been in the realm of work–even, perhaps, as a result of those strides–we’ve found ourselves stumped when it comes to the choices we face over […]
Repeat After Me: Just Say No.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", gender roles, workplace, tagged Ambition gap, Emory University, Germaine Greer, Pleasers, Serena Chen, University of California at Berkeley, Wall street Journal, workplace on January 22, 2013| 1 Comment »
If we want to close the ambition gap, a good first step might be learning how to shake our heads. There’s this great quote from Feminist icon Germaine Greer: When we talk about women having it all, what they really have all of is the work.” She was being somewhat facetious. But then again, not […]
Men in Pink
Posted in culture, economy, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, tagged Adia Harvey Wingfield, Betsey Stevenson, career satisfaction, Craig Claiborne, gender roles, glass ceiling, glass escalator, New York Times, pay gap, work-life balance on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
In a meeting last week, another editor and I got to discussing the state of the food section of our paper. (Perhaps we were hungry.) He immediately went on a tangent (okay, we were hungry), talking about how he was so interested to learn recently of the history of food criticism; how the food pages, […]
Architects of the Change
Posted in feminism, identity, Passion versus paycheck, worklife balance on September 30, 2009| 2 Comments »
I often call my journalism students “the architects of the change.” What I mean is that, as the whole industry transforms itself, it will most likely be up to those who are just entering the field to be in on the action of what the future of news will be. (If you think this is […]
Us vs. Them. Again. Still.
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, why women?, tagged 60 Minutes, ABC World News, Charlie Gibson, Diane Sawyer, equality, Katie Couric on September 10, 2009| 9 Comments »
I suppose it should come as no surprise, what with the nasty brouhaha that erupted three years ago when Katie Couric was named anchor for CBS’ 60 Minutes, that the recent announcement about Diane Sawyer taking over Charlie Gibson’s anchor post on ABC World News upon Gibson’s retirement was met with a scathing round of… […]
And you wonder: why women?
Posted in why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged American Time Use Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics, career choices, Carol Smith, Elle Group, New York Times, second shift, women bosses, work-life balance on August 5, 2009| 6 Comments »
Sure, men stress about career choices, too. But for women, relatively new to this world of work, there are some additional layers that may explain why so many of us are, well, undecided. One of those layers has to do with time. An interactive chart — good for at least 15 minutes of playtime at […]
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