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Cushioning My Landing: When Emotions Collide with Rationality
My dad walked me down the aisle, but his advice a few years earlier built the foundation I needed for the life I ended up living. It’s the clanging machine I remember most, as though hundreds of...
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We Don’t Deserve Our Daughters
Why do so many couples wish that their first born is a boy? A simple look back at the history of women who failed to produce a male child is explanation enough. Didn’t turn out so well for Anne Boleyn,...
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A Mother’s Response to The New York Times: Campus Suicide is More Complicated...
Suicide is complicated. Before it touched my family, I never would have considered it within the realm of possibility. And once it happened, I noticed that people — well meaning people — started...
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Unlimited Family Leave? Either Netflix Is Out of Its Mind or It’s Leading in...
The big question is why access to family leave has to depend on where you work. It’s no mystery — our national policies are lousy when it comes to working families. Netflix made a giant leap ahead of...
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The “N” Word: The Third Rail of White Parenting?
An older boy sauntered over to the high monkey bars and proceeded to do an impressive number of chin-ups. A digital music player was in his pocket and an R&B tune I didn’t know was blaring. It...
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A Report You Haven’t Heard of Says There’s a National Emergency for Women &...
One mother explained how she returned to her factory job just three weeks after giving birth. Because her employer had no lactation room, she had to pump breast milk in her truck during her lunch...
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After Amazon: Parental Spending Takes a Time Out
More than ever, consumers are looking for parity — brands that sell to them must also speak to them. Consumers who carefully choose how they spend their money and with which brands are asking for...
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Marissa Mayer and C-Suite Motherhood Culture
Ambitious women, like Mayer, who want to climb the corporate ladder will see her example and conclude simply that taking maternity leave is an unwise career choice. And this is where “do as I say not...
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Dear Xi Jinping, I Am Writing to You as an American Mom of a 19-Year-Old...
As China’s president is headed to the White House for a formal State Dinner with President Obama, we should focus on how China really treats women and girls. Will our president give this some thought?...
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Paid Leave: From Political Talking Point to Serious Election Issue
New poll numbers underline the rising support for a policy guaranteeing workers paid family leave. The support crosses all demographics and political lines. And more voters say the issue will...
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I Hate National Coming Out Day
What I hate is coming out with no context. I also hate feeling like I have to come out when sometimes I just don’t freaking feel like it. But on National Coming Out Day, I always feel obliged to find...
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Is Congressman Paul Ryan the Unlikely New Face of Work/Life Balance?
“I cannot and I will not give up my family time.” That’s what Paul Ryan declared when asked to be the new Speaker of the House. Kind of ironic coming from a guy so opposed to paid family leave for the...
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Can Hillary Clinton Lock Down This Election by Facing Off With the NRA?
What kind of “hero” can change truly our country’s conversation about gun violence? To find out, let’s start by changing our own cultural consciousness about a woman’s place in society. I ask my...
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Recovery, Generosity & Financial Graces
Those first few months were at once exhilarating and terrifying. I loved being on my own, and never felt the fear I imagined I might feel coming home alone in the dark. It was wonderful to shut my...
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It’s Not Her Fault You’re Distracted By Her Outfit
Now listen, if I happen to be in a business meeting and there’s a woman with a kick ass pair of shoes, those shoes might very well distract me. But it would be absurd of me to ask her to never wear...
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Suffragette: Why All Girls Should See This Film
This is one of those films where – for just a moment – you really do stop taking for granted something you always took for granted. LONDON – In the full flurry of mid-life – between the job and the...
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The Casual Feminist: In the Name of Tiny Hineys
A clean baby butt is a basic need that is hard to meet for many. Can you imagine how much you can lighten the burden of one hardworking family by solving this one problem? I’m a little obsessed with...
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Why TV Needs More People “On the Spectrum”
“The Bridge” asks us empathize with its lead character, and we do. In a world where more and more of us discover that we – or our loved ones – can be located somewhere “on the spectrum,” what a gift...
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Taking a Moment, While Being Grateful
That day, I was feeling really happy. Until I got a call from my son, now in college, that he had been robbed on his way to school. The words that shook me to my core, however, were, “They put a gun...
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What Does the Success of Donald Trump’s Presidential Bid Say to Our Kids… and...
Enter Donald Trump and the inherent paradox of his growing popularity with the anti-bullying movement and the message we’re trying to send our children. “Sweetie, bullies are bad. People don’t like...
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