Womentoring = the way up for all
Womentoring = the way up for all
International Women’s Day #99 / Moving forward
“If [business] people don’t make it happen, then the government has to make it happen. … We should be able to make it happen without legislation.”
25% of Iraqi Seats Must Go to Women
How does this connect to the United States, where currently 17% of the seats in Congress are held by women, with no guarantees on continuation?
Hutterite Fertility Data and Modern Fertility Anxiety
Part of the background to the current confusion about how long fertility lasts is the fact that there is very little good data. … The closest thing to a thoroughly controlled experiment of women’s fertility so far involved a Protestant religious sect called the Hutterites, pre-1950.
“Not that YOU Look Old…”
This week I’ve posted a guest blog on the morphing aesthetics of aging today, at the Women’s Review of Books site Women=Books, hosted by the Wellesley Centers for Women: “Not that YOU Look Old…”: On Later Motherhood” Please stop in,
Reader’s Question: Can Working Parents Go Green?
For some moms, however much they might wish that it were otherwise, going deep green feels next to impossible. Because they’re busy! The moms with the 9 to 5, and the kids in the backseat at 6 wailing for a meal NOW! Those are the moms who bring home the Styrofoam so much more often than they (aka I) want to. And the plastic, and the metallic peel-off tops. Whose children’s bodies incorporate too many French Fries and hormone-heavy hamburgers. How many working parents’ families are sustained only by the unsustainable? And is there a way out?
Could Gender Quotas Change Our Looks?
Here are two stories from Forbes: one tells us that, surprise, looks matter for women in terms of promotions (thinner, taller, confident, dressed-up women make more on average). The story does not address the way looks affect the promotions of