At long last: your birth control pills will finally be covered by insurance! The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced sweeping new guidelines for women’s health care to take effect Aug. 1, 2012. Among other things, these new guidelines will classify birth control pills as preventative medicine, meaning they’ll be covered without [...]
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Maybe, Baby (But Not Yet)
Posted in culture, too many choices, why women?, worklife balance, tagged birth rate, CDC, commitmentphobia, extended adolescence, fertility, have it all, Lori Gottlieb, mommy track, motherhood, New York Magazine, pay gap on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Life begins at 40? I don’t know about that, but, for an increasing number of American women, 40 is around the time motherhood begins. The CDC, which surveyed data between 2007 and 2009, found that the birth rate for women over 40 in the United States rose steadily in those two years. In other age [...]
Freedom, Fertility, and Feminism
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, quarterlife, the ticking clock, tagged "Emerging Adulthood", choices, Elaine Gale, feminism, New York Magazine, the birth control pill, Vanessa Grigoriadis on December 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today’s post is one of those ones that I’ve thought about writing often, but been happy to shy away from. It’s tricky territory. But over the past week, fate intervened: first, in the form of the New York Magazine in my mailbox, which screamed from the cover: Fifty years ago, the pill ushered in a [...]
The Lure of TomorrowLand in a Mad World
Posted in culture, feminism, tagged Heather Havrilesky, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, New York Magazine, New York Times, Salon.com, Stephanie Coontz, Washington Post on October 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Did you happen to catch Sunday’s Mad Men Finale? Entitled “Tomorrowland,” as always, the show served up a heaping dose of Yesteryear reality, tarted up in a no-detail-left-behind package of pitch-perfect mid-century style porn. Initially–and despite the big jaw-dropper–I turned off the TV and thought about the women. Faye, the successful, independent, and beautiful doctor [...]
Keeping The Door Open
Posted in decision-making, Gen X, psychology of choice, too many choices, tagged Dan Ariely, fear of commitment, have it all, New York Magazine, Predictably Irrational, road not traveled, too many choices on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have this friend. (Really, I swear it’s not me.) She never really had a breakup, despite the fact that she dated a lot. And dated a lot of losers. But no matter how bad the cad, she strove to end things peacefully, operating according to a simple mantra she called “keeping the door open.” [...]
Oh, the irony: what’s hot and what’s not
Posted in being judged, culture, feminism, why women?, tagged Amber Valetta, Broadsheet, CBS News, cindy Crawfor, Daily Mail, Faith Hill, Harper's Bazaar, Hillary Clinton, hipsters, Jessica Faye Carter, jezebel, Katie Couric, Kelly Clarkson, New York Magazine, New York Times Style section, Politics Daily, pot bellies, Ralph Kramden, Redbook, Self Magazine, Tina Brown, True/slant on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Apparently, pot bellies are the new cool. If you happen to be a young male hipster. Stay with me here: This is all about the way the media treat women as opposed to men, and why it appears that women can’t win. According to The New York Times Style section, the Ralph Kramden look is [...]
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