Birute Regine

I think Fifty Shades of Grey is pretty hot.

Sure, it's not that well-written; it's pretty hokey at times (how many times can you say, "He's so hot" in a book. Apparently a lot). It's an escape book, a naughty book, a remind-you-of -your-passion book, a nothing- new-erotica-book because...

"Leaders of all stripes are hard to come by lately," writes Sarah Hepola in her New York Sunday Times 3/18/12 piece, "A Woman like No Other." The woman Hepola is featuring is Gloria Steinem and her role as leader of the feminist movement. Who is going to take her place?...

When you and I take the basic necessities of life for granted, we can sometimes forget that to some people, they can mean the difference between life and death.

I was reminded of this while watching Water in Tigray, a video from Oxfam America, where water has saved lives. It...

I hate to admit it, but I love watching the way the celebs dress for the Grammys and the Oscars. What really struck me at the Grammys was how Adele was dressed -- fully-clothed: no cuts to the navel; no butt cracks showing. She exuded a kind of power, a...

It was exciting to finally see outrage in thousands of Egyptian women who took to the streets on January 10 to protest the beating and stripping of a female demonstrator in Tahrir Square. The iconic demonstrator became known as the "blue bra girl" because the soldiers tearing away at her...

I was asked to sit on a panel at The Economist 2012 conference, which focuses on predictions for the coming year. My assignment was to make a prediction about the workplace and jobs.

Given that I look at organizations as complex systems, which are non-linear and highly unpredictable, I'm not...

Women often find themselves between a rock and a hard place. When women are viewed as "nice," studies show that people "like" them better, but they are considered less effective in the workplace. When they're considered more effective but less nice, they experience more career roadblocks. What's a girl to...

Virginia M Rometty, new CEO of IBM, joins Meg Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard, and Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, to be among the elite 2 percent of women who hold CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies. We still have a long way to go, but now that we see more...

Finally, after too much time had passed, my girlfriends and I managed to coordinate a dinner date. As we sipped chilled white wine, we picked up on our conversation and it was, as it is with old friends, as if it had never stopped. The first subject was, of course,...

I was having dinner with a friend, a very successful consultant, whom I hadn't seen for quite a while. As we munched on a Caesar salad, I talked about my research on successful women. "I asked myself, what did these women, from many walks of life, share in common?" I...

My husband told me a story about himself when he was 18 years old that really struck a chord in me. He was out to breakfast with his girlfriend and her parents. When his boiled egg arrived, he cut off the top of the egg, put it aside and proceeded...

In the eighties, women flooded the male-dominated workplace and had to prove themselves man enough for the job. In order to succeed, they had to play the game and often felt they had to copy men's behavior. Women even dressed the part with padded shoulders, pant suits, certain kind of...

I remember a time I spoke at a CIO conference, during the dot com bubble when hubris was in full swing. I was talking about the important role care plays in the workplace. These guys looked back at me with an expression like "what did you have for breakfast?" Once...

"Jan" was sitting in a meeting and had a great insight into the issue being discussed. She enthusiastically put it out to the group, and waited for people's response. Nothing. No one commented or even nodded. The lack of response threw her for a loop. She thought she had something...

Fed up with the polarization and posturing in Congress, many people opted to vote out the old and vote in the new in hopes of changing the game. Voting out women, however, is not going to help solve these problems. This is the first decline in women represented in Congress...

What do tea baggers, big banks, and the followers of Westboro Baptist Church have in common? A stunted view of morality.

The Tea party waves the flag of individual freedom, personal liberty, free market, and espouses the inalienable rights of individuals.

Westboro Baptist Church feels it has the undeniable right...

Years ago, I visited my daughter Rasa at a wildlife camp about 10 miles south of Nairobi, Kenya, where she was studying wildlife management. Rasa's three months at the camp, closely connected as she was to nature, transformed this beautiful, strong, young woman, and I was no less affected by...

In Aristophone's play Lysistrata, the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta had been raging for 21 years. Fed up with the violence, Lysistrata and the women of Athens decided to take matters into their own hands. Wives and mistresses barricaded themselves in the Acropolis and refused all sexual favors until...

The other day, I heard Arianna speak at Harvard's Kennedy School of Public Policy, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about her new book, The Third World America. She pointed out that we now have a poverty level of 15 percent in America, two-thirds of Americans believe their kids will be worse off...