I refused to be one of those people who criticized -- or even commented too much -- on Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, until I'd read it. Since my week included client crises, a non-profit board meeting, tap and drum...

I am so fed up with advice from people telling women that if they just make the right personal choices at the right time in the right order, then they will have no problem fitting career, marriage and kids into their lives.

That's a load of crap. If anyone could...

What's stunning about the reaction to Anne-Marie Slaughter's article "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" and the news that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant is the size and scope of the reaction itself.

And I can explain that reaction with a screen shot:

When I speak to groups of young women and men, I've found that more and more frequently, the question I get isn't "Can I have it all?", but "Should I have kids at all?"

Young women and couples...

Why do women themselves say that women "Can't Have it All?" We say it because, as one mother told me, the phrase resonates as being "shockingly, earth-shakingly true." We use you "Can't Have it All" because it reflects a reality: our frustration with the impossible goal of trying to...

My Gen X peers and I come by our skeptical -- okay our cynical -- world view honestly.

My childhood was bookended by 1979's energy crisis and the Three Mile Island disaster on one end and 1987's Black Monday stock market crash on the other. While Boomers experienced...

Soon after we had our daughter, I read that elderly women receive far lower Social Security benefits than men due largely to motherhood. Having just become one, I visited the Social Security Administration website. At the top of the page, they reassured me "Social Security is neutral with respect to...

Equal Pay Day and Tax Day both fall on April 17 this year due to a simple calendar coincidence. But the connection between the two and the financial impact for women -- especially mothers -- is no coincidence.

April 17, 2012 is the day that symbolizes how...

Today's mothers and fathers have an uphill battle. Here we are struggling to share parenting and employment in a world that still expects us to be in traditional family roles, and a government institution comes along to tell us that when dad takes care of the kids it's "babysitting", but...

Our family makes its way through an annual New Year's resolution process that serves us pretty well.

2010 was different.

Our family is dealing with

1. Don't choose what to do. (Choose what NOT to do -- quickly.)

My career has been propelled most by the times I started down a path, realized it was not a good fit and quickly chose NOT to...

Every October, National Work and Family Month gives me flashbacks.

When I became pregnant, I was a manager at a high-tech company. I worked at least fifty hours a week and, thanks to a recent merger, my position would now include...

Recently, one of my clients said to me in frustration, "My team and I are so busy with our work that it drives me crazy to have to deal with all these internal political issues that waste my time."

A tweet from the Unversity of Chicago Urban Education Institute last week pointed me to this Washington Post article, Study: Single-Sex Education May Do More Harm Than Good.

I have always been opposed to single-sex schools myself, even...

Last Monday morning I found myself stuck to the chair in my kitchen. I just couldn't seem to make myself move from the kitchen to my home office to get started on the various projects of the day. So I tweeted my malaise to the Twitterverse.

"I.am.procrastinating."

Though I'm not sure I welcome the picture of myself as a Philly Cheesesteak sandwich oozing Velveeta cheese, I appreciate Career Diva's post "Working Women are like Philly Cheesesteaks" on the sandwich generation and it's impact on women's careers in...

Last week I read a few new articles on work-life balance that brought to mind a mantra I have about organizational change.

In the battle between well-intentioned policies and the unwritten rules of any workplace, unwritten rules win every time.

From the Sloan...

Our daughter headed to middle school this year, and as a former Director of Technology for a K-12 school, I felt like I should have a grand plan for teaching her what she needs to know about computers, the...

When my husband and I read The Wizard of Oz to our daughter several years ago, we discovered that L. Frank Baum wrote a sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, in 1904 and it was included in the old book we were using so we read that to her...

Fast Company magazine published online an article on education reform How to Spend $100 Million to Really Save Education. An article I appreciate because it challenges the popular narrative around public education now such as "charter schools and strong MBA style leaders" are THE answer.

That same week...