Lori Sokol

Of all of the carefully wrapped presents we gave our moms on Mother's Day last Sunday, how many mothers do you think tore open the pretty-in-pink paper to find their child's investments portfolios inside? Not many, if any at all. But, according to a Wall Street Journal article, this would...

Today, I shopped at J.C. Penney for the first time in a long time. Not that I was purposely avoiding it, it's just that I had no real reason to go, with so many other retail outlets closer to my home. But, today, I had the best reason to go...

Through the release of the documentary 'A Girl Is a Fellow Hereʼ - 100 Women Architects in the Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright, Beverly Willis, the film's producer, is seeking to set the record straight -- that female architects have contributed much more to the well-built environment than they have...

"I'm too male, too pale, and too stale." While this self-description would typically brand most middle-aged, white males as being out-of-touch with today's youthful, progressive and diverse society, it did nothing of the sort for a man who was recently honored by a leading feminist organization focused on these three...

Although the month of March served as national Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, for most of us who are not afflicted with a disability, or don't know of someone who is, this commemorative month flew by unawares. There is, however, one woman who is trying to change all that. Loreen Arbus,...

While the Republican War on Women continues to try to turn back the clock on women's rights by threatening to stop funding Planned Parenthood, supporting the Blunt Amendment, and attempting to enforce Trans Vaginal Ultrasounds on pregnant women, just to name a few, one can't help but wonder why we...

Yesterday we celebrated Leap Day, a day that defies tradition by making this year 366 days long, instead of the usual 365. But this wasn't the only tradition Leap Year turned out to defy. For little did Queen Margaret of Scotland know in 1288, when she anointed every...

"We are making history for our sistahs," is how one lesbian couple put it when they joined over 800 other same-sex couples in getting married on July 24th, the first day it was legal do so in New York. But the state actually stands to make much, much more --...

On Tues. Aug. 31, after more than seven years of war, President Obama officially ended the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. It's something to celebrate, the end of a war, except for the 4,746 deceased American combatants for whom this decision has come too late.

So how do we learn...

The current media frenzy about the latest female celebrity to replace her last name with that of her new spouse is sure to infuriate longstanding feminists who have fought long and hard for women to keep their maiden names ... or not. You see, this time, the rules have changed,...

To celebrate my 50th birthday earlier this month, I invited the author of the book, "50 Is The New 50," Suzanne Braun Levine, to be a guest on my weekly radio show, "Juggling Act." While she discussed the many benefits associated with embarking on this new decade of female freedom...

Twenty years ago this Thanksgiving, I got married. Two years ago this month, I got divorced. But I am not here to chronicle the history of a marriage gone wrong. Instead, I am here to commemorate a divorce that went right. And its success was based upon none other than...

Guilty Pleasure, Strawberry Stilletos, Grape Sex. These are just some of the nebulously named martinis currently being marketed to women at bars and restaurants in hopes of increasing our alcoholic consumption. And guess what? We're buying.

Women have become such grand consumers of 'girltinis', in fact, that alcoholism is currently...

As our country celebrates National Work and Family month in October, green is becoming the new pink for working women striving to balance their work and family responsibilities. For far too long, women's ability to juggle their personal life and career has been sorely limited by the minimal salaries women...