What keeps women from gaining 50 % possession of positions like CEO, professor, writer, politician, general, engineer, and physicist? What keeps women from debunking stereotypes that limit women’s behavior to sex, domestic upkeep, and motherhood?
We get tired from fighting “fat” and “ugly” all the time. We get distracted by our love-handles and our outdated purses. We get [...]
I was just in Hawaii for vacation last week. It was a beautiful time for me to rest and enjoy the unbelievable sunshine and landscape of Lanai Island. I got time to recharge and to re-set myself in hopes of resting and coming back to work with fresh insight and a more centered sense of [...]
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I am not sure how old I was when I was first told that “boys are stronger than girls”, or when that notion transformed itself into the endemic belief that “men are stronger than women”. I certainly don’t remember a time when I was [...]
“I was the first American Citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish.” -Shirley Chisholm
The patriarchal anxiety of [...]