What’s A Woman To Do? Avoid the Rush.

One of the problems with decisions is we sometimes make them before we’re ready. Sometimes we’ve forced ourselves into a box. Sometimes we entered that box with a skip and a smile. Sometimes it’s been a full-court press to please the iconic self. But as the saying goes: Decide in haste, repent in leisure. Quite [...]

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More Americans Than Ever Are Living Single. Here’s Why.

Flying solo is in–in a serious way. A New York Times Q&A with Eric Kilnenberg, NYU sociology professor and author of the new book “Going Solo,” leads with the facts: In 1950, 22 percent of American adults were single. Now that number is almost 50 percent. One in seven adults lives alone. Half of all [...]

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Michele Bachmann: A Woman Does Not A Women’s Candidate Make

The fight for the women’s vote ramped up this week when Michele Bachmann officially declared her run for the presidency. The Tea Party founder is pro-family, anti-government, and has proclaimed herself the champion of women everywhere. We beg to differ. She’s just one of the guys, she told Daily Beast writer Kirsten Powers: “I’m a [...]

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It’s A Man’s, Man’s World. Thank you, SCOTUS, for reminding us.

By now you have surely heard that the Supreme Court has denied the Wal-Mart class action suit, brought on behalf of some 1.5 million female workers, on grounds of gender descrimination.   The ruling was not a decision based on whether Wal-Mart had discriminated against the women (more below), but that they could not proceed as [...]

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Upcoming Undecided Events

If you’re Undecided, you’re definitely not alone! And we’d like to cordially invite you to several events we have going on this week: Wednesday June 22: Join in on Twitter as we guest-host (along with moderator Chanelle Schneider) a GenYChat about the topics we explore in Undecided. If you haven’t participated in one of these [...]

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Undecided Update!

Greetings! Today, we thought we’d catch you up on what’s going on with Undecided (the book… have you bought your copy yet?), because there’s quite a bit to catch you up on! Ahead of the book’s official release on May 3, we had a sneak peek reading at Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara last week. [...]

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Happy Holidays from Undecided!

In the spirit of the season:  an iconic duo of  feel-good Christmas Eve moments, movie style.  Just enough gratuitious Christmas cheese to make even Ebeneezer Scrooge  a little teary — plus a few life lessons, Undecided style. “If things don’t turn out the first time, you’ve still got to believe” (from the original “Miracle on [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! And Pass the Hope!

Here’s how it breaks down at our house.  Our thanksgiving feast includes a cast of many (this year we’ve maxed out at 29 family and friends) and comes with two unbreakable rules: The first is the rookie rule:  the newbies get first crack at doing the dishes.  We keep this rule on the down-low, for [...]

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On This We Can Decide:

We owe you, dear undecided reader, a giant thank-you for reading, commenting and helping us keep the faith. Which is to say:  we delivered our manuscript to our publisher Tuesday afternoon.  Rest assured we toasted you all — uh, probably a few too many times — Tuesday night. We’ll be back in action next week.  [...]

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Feminist And Funny

Did you hear the one about funny feminists? Check the repartee between New York Times columnist Gail Collins and writer Stacy Schiff, author of the forthcoming “Cleopatra: A Life”, in Wednesday’s Opinionator column.  They wax feminist about everything from Mama Grizzlies to Manolos, and give us a chuckle or two along the way.   Funny, stand-up [...]

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