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 […]
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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 »
Could Women Against Guns Be As Powerful as Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
Posted in culture, gender roles, why women?, tagged Adam Lanza, Alex Pareene, Columbine, Conn., Gabrielle Giffords, gun control, Mark Blumenthal, Mark Rosenberg, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Nate Silver, National Rifle Association, New York Times, Newtown, Salon, Sandy Hook, Sen. Diane Feinstein, The Task Force for Global Health on December 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Do not let the outrage die. In the wake of the horrific mass murders in Newtown, Conn., we’ve read plenty of newspaper articles, listened to numerous TV commentators, read hundreds of Facebook posts, all with the same message: we need to talk about gun control. And yet. My biggest fear is that, once the grief […]
How The Pursuit of Happiness Makes Us Crazy.
Posted in culture, grass-is-greener, identity, Paradox of Women's Declining Happiness, tagged "the shoulds", Consumer culture, Daniel Gilbert, Eric Hoffer, expectations, Facebook, happiness, New York Times, perfection, Ruth Whippman, Stumbling on Happiness, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you on September 28, 2012| 1 Comment »
The last time our family got together — finding all of us in the same zipcode at the same time is a rare and wondrous feat — we hunkered down in a suite at the Holiday Inn Express (Backstory not important). With no bar or restaurant in sight, our family of foodies trekked to the […]
The Mother of all Conversations: Where The Chatter About Marissa Mayer Went Way Wrong
Posted in culture, feminism, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Boston College Center for Work and Family, Brad Harrington, Child care, Diversity Executive Magazine, Family Medical Leave Act, Fortune 500, Fortune magazine, gender roles, Google, Marissa Mayer, maternal wall, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you, work-life balance, workplace structure, Yahoo on July 19, 2012| 2 Comments »
Now that the chatter about Marissa Mayer has started to grow cold, let me admit that the whole conversation has pissed me off. In case you’ve spent the past few days under a rock or — same thing — totally unplugged, Marissa Mayer is the former Google superstar who was annointed CEO of Yahoo on […]
The Trouble with iComm
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, decision-making, feminism, why women?, tagged Apple, Charlotta Kratz, gendered communication, iComm, Laura Ellingson, Pew Research Center, Sherry Turkle, TED Talk, texting on July 13, 2012| 5 Comments »
I sometimes wonder whether our uber-connection has left us more than a little disconnected. There’s no denying the ubiquity of iComm. Long ago, we gave up talking in favor of typing. (My land line rarely rings. Does yours?) More recently, email conversations -– thanks to the seductive buzz of the smart phones in our pockets […]
Having trouble with self-control? It’s all in your head!
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", decision-making, life choices, psychology of choice, tagged Baba Shiv, George Miller, Kathleen Vohs, psychology of choice, self-control, William Hedgcock on June 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
When your best intentions go south, new research suggests that it wasn’t the devil that made you do it. It was your brain. Will power, the study found, is a finite resource, one that can be easily depleted. Which is why, when faced with a “do-I-or-don’t-I” kind of decision, you might find it easier to […]
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, […]