The concept of the bucket list and the life list has grown in popularity as our sheer options for life abound. In the midst of feeling overwhelmed -- the average American receives over 100,000 words of information a day-- writing down a few simple phrases has huge power...

The Mom 2.0 Summit, which I just attended, got a lot of snark from the Wall St Journal. On some level, I could understand the snark when seen from an outsider's point of view. Blogger conferences are indeed full of people vying for product endorsement deals. So is...

The inequality of wealth and poverty in the world is extremely apparent when it comes to one of our most basic needs: food. Could you live on just $1.50 per day? For the 1.4 billion people who live in the most extreme poverty -- what the World Bank

We've all now thought about Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Sandberg encourages women to take on greater responsibility in the workplace and improve their leadership potential. But here's an interesting statistic in the context of all the discussion of whether women should...

If you volunteer on a field operation for a political campaign, you'll hear the mantra "each one reach one."

Turns out, we can use our social media networks to influence friends and followers to vote. I've heard from many of friends online -- Ananda Leeke teaching a #yogaforobama class/fundraiser...

It started this summer... conversations on the playground, on my favorite blogs, at work: Is this climate change? The hottest summer on record, Midwest tornadoes and floods, out-of-control forest fires. And this after a summer hurricane (Irene) and freak ice storm on Halloween 2011 had crippled my suburban Boston neighborhood...

On Tuesday night, Mitt Romney and President Obama met for the second of three presidential debates. During the town-hall-style debate, a young woman named Katherine Fenton asked a question about how each candidate would address the issue of pay equity -- "specifically regarding females making only 72 percent...

Last week, I watched as Mitt Romney stood on a stage and lied in front of millions of Americans during one of the most watched presidential debates in history. I've been so anxious -- and angry -- ever since when I look at poll numbers that inch towards...

I'm writing this on Saturday morning, feeling jazzed that my email inbox is under control and I'm catching up. And I'm haunted by the words of Harvard Business School's Leslie Perlow: "When you innocently clear out your inbox on Saturday morning, you might be ruining the day of someone who...

How many women didn't tear up a bit when Procter & Gamble aired their Olympics-themed commercials featuring tireless moms sacrificing all to raise Olympian athletes? Being a mom is the "best job" in the world, the ads said. Those ads were incredible and they made me proud to...

When I learned that newly-appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was pregnant, my first impulse was, "I want to buy some Yahoo stock as a token of support for hiring a pregnant CEO."

And so, for the first time ever, I went online, opened up a...

On Wednesday, I had the privilege to join some incredible women at the Obama Campaign Headquarters in Chicago. Lilly Ledbetter showed all her mettle and gave incredible testimony to the fact that over the course of her career, the typical full-time working woman in the U.S has lost

It's a fairly well-known fact that American women, on average, earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. There are many professions in which women make significantly less; for example, women in finance make only 55 to 62 cents on the dollar -- the largest disparity of...

Women are important. That was the message on Day 1 of the general election campaign. Just how we are seen as important seems to change depending on the message of the day. Now, the issue of economic inequality and class is being played out through the women's lens. Gender roles...

Apparently some in the Republican leadership think that women have tiny little insect brains (see, RNC leader Reince Priebus and caterpillar reference), but I think they are the ones who are thinking in tiny ways.

What's the big deal about blocking access to birth control, the GOP...

It's a known fact that a plurality of women, regardless of their age, self-identify as Democratic voters. Often referred to as the gender gap, this divide has become especially stark over the past two years. According to Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post, just 41 percent of men...

On Thursday, the dangerous Blunt Amendment failed to pass the U.S. Senate. The amendment, which would have enabled employers to pick and choose what services they would cover under insurance on moral grounds, was electorally unwise at best and reckless at worst.

The Blunt Amendment...

When it comes to my status as a vaginal American, I haven't been so happy about the state of affairs for years. Transvaginal ultrasounds mandated in Virginia? Bring it! Aspirin as birth control! Tell me more. A Congressional panel of men deciding how (if?) women should control their fertility?

Things...

Tonight, I'll be providing coverage of the first in the nation New Hampshire primary on ABC's local affiliate, WCVB, here in Boston. In comparison to many years past, the 2012 Republican race got off to a late start and has been turbulent, if entertaining to a Progressive. Candidates' poll numbers...