Early Friday afternoon, New Yorkers were walking on Park Avenue at their usual brisk pace. There was a slight breeze, and the air was cool enough to be refreshing. People were enjoying the day of moderate temperature before the holiday weekend, when...

Most American women might presume that the dangers of maternal mortality are a concern and problem only in developing nations. They're wrong. A March 2010 report put out by Amnesty International entitled, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care...

When it comes to protecting women from violence, experts are realizing that economic self-sufficiency offers a method of prevention.

In mid-June, the "No to Violence Against Women" annual conference was held in New York City. It was presented by the National...

A number of years ago, I had a part-time gig at an elementary school where I taught afterschool classes in art and film classics. One warm June day, it was decided that the kids could spend thirty minutes in the playground. As I...

With the state of the economy at the top of everyone's list of concerns, women are looking hard to find beauty solutions that are gentle on the pocketbook. One of the answers they are turning to is a topical product that promise rejuvenating results for their skin.

The class of...

The Personal Democracy Forum is back in New York City for its two-day conference. The home of my original "new media epiphany," my third year attending was as thought-provoking as the first. A person handing out buttons that...

May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day. The issue is starting to get more traction in terms of visibility, Congressional hearings, and acknowledgement from agencies that span a full range of alphabet soup.

On Thursday, May 20th, a morning hearing was held.

This past March, Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, hosted a round table discussion in conjunction with the U.S. - Afghan Women's Council. The focus was to examine how to support Afghan women in media. The agenda also addressed...

When the story broke, the tabloid headlines screamed that Hall of Fame football star, Lawrence Taylor, had been arrested on Thursday, May 6th, for having sex with a 16-year-old-prostitute. One publication referred to her as a "teen hooker."

As the information started to come in, the public learned...

Mother's Day used to be simple. It was a holiday when I would strive to come up with an original gift for my mother. When I was very young, part of the ritual included marking the occasion with my Grandmother. The first years after she died, I always wondered if...

NPH is the short form term for a three-word disease that is being misdiagnosed all too frequently. I first learned about Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus from a colleague. She told me how her life had been impacted when her mother became ill, and she had to take on the responsibilities of...

When my father reached the age of 91, he decided to change temples. He wanted something smaller than the synagogue that we had been attending for close to 25 years. I was charged with finding a new congregation. The parameters were simple: the location had to be on the east...

On April 16th, the Omega Institute came into New York City to offer a weekend of renewal. Founded in 1977, the learning center that is nestled in the Hudson Valley, where over 23,000 people a year attend their conferences and seminars to "awaken the best in the human...

Every family has a story. Some are more complicated than others. In Tom Murray's documentary, Dad's in Heaven With Nixon, narrative threads are woven together to create impressions and nuances. Patterns are revealed, facts emerge, truths are laid bare.

When I interviewed Murray by telephone, he related that...

During the month of March, Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers played at the New York Theatre Workshop, presented in conjunction with L.A. Theatre Works and Affinity Collaborative Theater. Written by Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons,...

Now that a health care bill has been passed, many of Nancy Pelosi's detractors have recategorized her from the nomenclature of goat to the status of hero. Pelosi, in the House of Representatives since 1987, became the Speaker of House in 2007. She is second in the United...

Gloria Steinem has repeatedly stressed the importance of women sharing their personal stories as a way to add their voices to the human record. This was the strength of The Daily Beast's three-day event. For the 300 women leaders gathered to be informed and motivated to...

At this weekend's "Women in the World" conference presented by the Daily Beast, there was a subtext of contrast between the high-wattage interviewers -- Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Campbell Brown, and Lesley Stahl -- and the women who came...

It wasn't until 1990 that the Office of Research on Women's Health at the National Institute of Health was founded. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) teamed with Senator Edward Kennedy to make it happen. They knew that women were being excluded from clinical research...