On the heels of Father's Day, social media commentators are asking if men can have it all. How can men manage the work-life balance? Why don't men take advantage of paternity leave policies?

There seems to be a Daddy Wars mindset emerging, as this sharp New...

Out of great challenges come even greater opportunities to lead. The recent survey revealing 26,000 military members experienced unwanted sexual contact last year is one tragic example of this truth. Even with the military's top brass showing real concern, it is not only men in the Pentagon who...

They say past is prologue. For me, that phrase could not be more fitting. A moment in history sparked my future.

My grandmother's story about watching the suffragists marching on Fifth Avenue, demanding the right to vote, prefaced my own story as an expert on women in politics, an...

Valentine's Day has always been my favorite holiday. For me, it is a celebration of the warmest sentiments: love, friendship, passion, and compassion (and the sweet treats are an added bonus).

This year, in lieu of a traditional valentine, I am penning this online love letter to some of the...

She's been First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. United States Senator Clinton. And, most notably on the eve of her resignation, Secretary of State Clinton. Let's add Madame President to this list.

She certainly has the chops.

I've known Hillary Clinton since her days as First Lady, and I've been...

Forget two turtle doves or five golden rings. This holiday season, I'm celebrating contraception, women increasing their ranks in Congress, women stealing the show at the Democratic National Convention and women using a new roadmap to win office (and a partridge in a pear tree). Here are my...

The 1950s called: They want their stereotypes back. In what feels like a throwback to a bygone era, paternalist politics were alive and well in this election. We heard about binders full of women and "legitimate rape." We heard old, white men question the merits of equal pay for equal...

The "year of the woman" has gone through as many iterations as Mitt Romney's stance on abortion. The original year of the woman, 1992, earned the moniker when 24 new women and 23 incumbent women won seats in the U.S. House. We heard the phrase parroted this year, when a...

Weeks before the Democratic National Convention, I lamented the lack of women's voices slated for prime speaking roles in Charlotte, wondering aloud on these pages, "Where are the women?"

After a Republican National Convention where women's voices seemed more like token placeholders than voices...

The conversation swirling about what Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's speech at the Democratic National Convention means for her campaign, for the president and for the party is missing an important question: Where are the other women?

While it's exciting that Warren was tapped to speak just before President Bill...

The scripted television lineup is rife with winks and nods to the political drama playing out in real time on the news. Shows like Veep, The Newsroom, and the latest, Political Animals, take advantage of the all-consuming swirl of an election year to entertaining...

The debate swirling about Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's heritage is maddening. Not because it is a sideshow to pull focus from real issues, and not because negative attacks are just politics as usual. It is maddening because Senator Scott Brown's campaign attack on Warren's "honesty" is not about...

Mother's Day is a time to reminisce and to look ahead. It's a reminder of our childhoods, the memories we have of the important maternal figures in our lives, how much they've done for us and how far we've come. It also reminds us why we find mothers so inspiring:...

Afghanistan, Rwanda and 68 other countries of the world -- many of them emerging democracies -- have more women in their elected legislatures than the United States. In a democracy as seasoned as ours, it should be impossible that women can make up more than half the population but win...

I recently had the honor of introducing the First Lady of the United States, who was in Boston for an event at the Institute of Contemporary Art.

The evening's opening act was a panel discussion about women's health with Stephanie Schriock,...

Last week I was cleaning out my closet and found sweaters and handbags that I hadn't worn in a decade or two (but who's counting). I decided to resurrect a few of my favorites -- and the young women I work with were full of compliments about my "new" clothes....

Last summer, shortly after Michele Bachmann stood in her childhood home of Waterloo, Iowa, to announce her run for president, I predicted that her campaign would follow a new playbook for women candidates capitalizing on women's unique appeal to voters.

Women, I argued, can actually have an advantage...

Women are being left off the page of every best-of-the-year list I have read so far. For starters, you have to be a princess to make it onto TIME's list of runners-up for "Person of the Year." Kate Middleton appears again on People magazine's "Most Intriguing" list and her younger...

Half of the United States' incumbent Democratic women senators are up for reelection next year. And as the Huffington Post's Amanda Terkel pointed out earlier this month, since women's political fate tends to be tied to the political fate of Democrats overall, next year's elections pose a very...

Women can't be trusted when it comes to sex.

That was the message in October 1991, when an all-male, all-white Senate Judiciary Committee interrogated a young African-American law professor named Anita Hill about her claim that her former boss Clarence Thomas had made unwelcome sexual comments and advances towards her...