This being graduation season, the other day I asked the over-achieving rockstars in my senior journalism capstone class what they’d most like to hear from a commencement speaker. Thankfully, I heard no references to roads not taken nor endings-versus-beginnings. (Though I would have enjoyed a quick reference to that four-word piece of advice from the […]
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Happy Graduation: Now Go Out There and Fail!
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, decision, identity, purpose, tagged "On the Waterfront", "the Graduate, Anna Q, Emily Dickinson, failure, fear of failure, great expectations, having it all, Hillary Clinton, Kathryn Stockett, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Ramani Durvasula, Steve Wozniak on June 1, 2012| 1 Comment »
Squawking Points: The War on Women Goes Stupid.
Posted in culture, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Affordable Care Act, Canadian Lawyer and Law Times, equal pay, family values, feminism, forbes.com, Gay Marriage, gender wage gap, health care reform, jezebel, Katie J.M. Baker, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, Ramesh Ponnuru, Rep. Paul Ryan, reproductive rights, Sabrina Shaeffer, safety net, war on women on August 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
It’s not so much the right-wingers’ war on women that pisses me off — it’s the fact that they think we’re dumb enough to buy their talking points. Case in point, a Bloomberg op-ed by Ramesh Ponnuru that attempts to make the case that the gender wage gap is nothing but nonsense: we make less […]
What’s A Woman To Do? Avoid the Rush.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
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 […]
Let’s Talk About Sex
Posted in culture, feminism, gender roles, Millenials, why women?, tagged "Girls", backlash, erica jong, feminism, Frank Bruni, gender differences, Gloria steinem, Hanna Rosin, HBO, Lena Dunham, New York Times, Rick Santorum, sex, sexual revolution, The Daily Beast, uncharted territory, Wall street Journal on April 3, 2012| 1 Comment »
Everyone else seems to be. They’re talking about women and sex and “Girls” and sex and feminism and sex and HBO and sex and the sexual revolution as failure and the sexual revolution as success. It feels a little weird to be writing this, honestly, being that it’s 2012 and all. But with whom and […]
Why Women Are Worth (Less)
Posted in feminism, workplace, tagged "Women Don't Ask", Catalyst, center for american progress, claudia goldin, Equal Pay Day, freakonomics, Ilene Lang, lawrence katz, Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever, The Daily Worth on August 4, 2011| 3 Comments »
Recently, I came across a post on Daily Worth, a financial blog for women, written by a young woman who had just been offered a promotion at her daily newspaper: social media editor. She was currently making $32,000, but after doing some research, realized that her new job was worth $40,000. So she screwed up […]
Four Years of College For, Um, This?
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, decision-making, grass-is-greener, life choices, Uncategorized, tagged college, david brooks, david leonhardt, grass-is-greener, jacques Steinberg, liberal arts education, michael roth, stanley fisk on June 10, 2010| 1 Comment »
You bet your mortarboard. Stick with us, you’ll find out why. But first, backstory: Last month, New York Times writer David Leonhardt slapped the debate about the value of our American college-for-all ethos smack-dab on our collective kitchen table. Ever since, knickers have been in a bundle all across the interwebs as readers, reporters, students, […]
The Treadmill, Redux: Good-bye, Adolescence
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", life choices, Millenials on February 18, 2010| 1 Comment »
If developmental psychologists have it right, that adolescence is the time we lay the groundwork for the grown-up we will someday become, and if they also have it right that adolescence now extends well into the twenty-somethings, what’s up with the new plan to usher kids out of high school in two years? Well, not […]
Ka-ching: The Cost of The Time-out.
Posted in life choices, Uncategorized, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged claudia goldin, freakonomics, gender wage gap, lawrence katz, MBAs, university of chicago on January 28, 2010| 5 Comments »
Apparently, when it comes to the wage gap, it’s the time-out that kicks us in the pocketbook. That’s the word from labor economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, experts on the gender wage discrepancy, answering questions in Thursday’s NYTimes Freakonomics column. They’ve got some darn good data. If you’re a numbers geek like me, you’ll […]
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 […]