So, the subject of our book is certainly in the air as of late. First, Ann Marie Slaughter, and now, a piece on The Daily Beast by Debora Spar, whose take on the issues of women chasing perfection, juggling roles and choices in a not-adequately-changed world was, frankly, so similar to the things we’ve written […]
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There is No Having It All, There is No Perfect (and, Spoiler Alert: There is No Santa Claus Either)
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, gender roles, identity, psychology of choice, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Ann Marie Slaughter, choices, Debora Spar, feminism's unfinished work, having it all, jugging, multitasking, perfection, pressure, public policy, The Daily Beast, the workplace, trade-offs, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you, unfinished work, us vs. them on September 24, 2012| 1 Comment »
Me, a Cosmo Girl?
Posted in culture, feminism, tagged being single, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Edith Zimmerman, empowerment, expectations, fulfillment, have it all, Helen Gurley Brown, inequality, juggling, mouseburgers, New York Times, pressure, sex, Sex and the Single Girl, The Feminine Mystique, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you on August 13, 2012| 2 Comments »
“Good girls go to Heaven, but bad girls go everywhere.” So said Helen Gurley Brown, longtime editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine and author of the bestselling “Sex and the Single Girl.” And while one can say what one will about Cosmopolitan magazine, few can argue that HGB was not a gamechanger. Don’t get me wrong: Cosmo […]
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, […]
Go big or go home?
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", being judged, culture, feminism, gender roles, life choices, workplace, tagged brian reid, forbes.com, Lisa Belkin, meghan casserly, opting out, Pamela Stone on March 1, 2012| 5 Comments »
I ran into a tired old phrase over there on Forbes.com the other day: “Opting out.” Surely you’ve heard it. It refers to women who take a career-track detour. It’s a concept that won’t go away, implying that our choices are to go big or go home. That may be an actual choice for a […]
Fail Thee Well
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, why women?, tagged character strengths, Christopher Peterson, Dominic Randolph, Elizabeth Gilbert, failure, great expectations, KIPP Infinity School, Martin Seligman, New York Times, Paul Tough, perfection, positive psychology, Riverdale Country School, Tom Brunzell on September 20, 2011| 3 Comments »
What if the surest indicator of your future success–of living a happy, meaningful, and productive life–is how good you are at failing? Brace yourselves, perfectionists, because the evidence is mounting: in order to fly, you’ve first got to fail. And (worse!) how well you fail may be one of the biggest predictors of success. Bigger […]
In The News
Posted in on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a select list of some of the buzz Undecided has generated: PRINT: Psychologies, July 7, 2014: “How to Make a U-Turn” Comstock’s Magazine, March 2012: “Feel the Burn” Santa Clara Magazine, January 2012: “Future Imperfect” The Weekly Herald, December 8, 2011: “Best of 2011: Business, society, science & God” Daily Mail, November 29, 2011: […]