James Todd, a young dad and Web developer, is getting to live out his own dreams through his daughter's awesome project. As The New York Times reports...
Let's take a look at some of the facts and figures involved in the story of women in 2013, while not forgetting that this is no reason to rest on our laurels -- there's still plenty of work to be done.
A few weeks ago I got to be a fly on the wall at a Master Class hosted by The Academy for Teachers, a new and noteworthy endeavor that allows selected teachers from the New York City area schools time to share, learn, and frankly to be respected and rewarded in their profession.
With the publication of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's new book, Lean In, the dearth of women in corporate leadership is back in the news again. Here ...
Sheryl Sandberg's views have been heavily contrasted to Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of the viral Atlantic article "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," so much so that a New York Times journalist argued that their distinctions amounted to a Freidan-Steinem row.
We live in a culture of conspicuous consumption in the United States. You can buy anything you want. At any time. When I moved back to the states afte...
The women we look up to in the arts -- from New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan soaring above the stage at Lincoln Center to action hero Elizabeth Streb scaling a building in London -- have their own inspiring heroines, some famous and others less known.
To say Ellen DeGeneres is an inspiration to many just goes without saying. But her appearance on Makers, a new video initiative profiling awe-inspirin...
Hardscrabble doesn't begin to describe the childhood award-winning actress Rita Moreno (neé Rosita Alverio) experienced growing up in the Bronx. Her ...
From the series Markers.com, featuring trailblazing women across all fields.
Even in modern partnerships, the default expectation is that women will attend to a child's needs. That's the observation Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook...
Becoming a self-made billionaire doesn't happen overnight.
In order to get to that leadership table in Congress or the C suite, women cannot be marginalized, either directly by work policies that exclude their employment or by "having it all" media debates so rarified that they exclude their participation.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has one simple tip for people dating in the digital age: Talk. "I'm very worried when I see a couple holding hands and each on...
A famed talk show host, philanthropist and the highest paid woman in Hollywood, Oprah Winfrey has undeniably left a mark on the world. And her hope to...
Amanda Haas believes families benefit from eating healthy, homemade meals together -- so she's made it her life's work to help them do just that. T...
Author and educator, Rachel Simmons, could never understand why at just 8 years old, a "friend" convinced other girls to run away from her after schoo...
Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, leaves work every day at 5:30. She has done that since her children were born -- her son in ...
This evening, PBS will premiere "MAKERS: Women Who Make America," a television special that tells the compelling saga of the American women who led the march to equality over the past half-century. I attended a screening of the film earlier this month, and, well, here's a spoiler alert: You will be moved to tears.
I spent my early years in New York City, went to college, got married, had kids and just assumed this is how my life would be and how it has always been. It wasn't until I listened to the stories that are a part of MAKERS that I realized how these choices were privileges by any other name.
Bestselling author Susan Cain wasn't always a writer. In fact, she was a practicing lawyer until an epiphany moment set her on a different path. Sh...
The stories of courage, confidence and empowerment deeply touched me and reminded me of why I have the privileges I now have.
Makers is a term for all women, whether or not she calls herself a feminist, makes a home, works on a construction crew. She may be the first woman firefighter, first female brigadier general, or first woman orthodox rabbi.
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said in 2010 that 60 percent of Americans receive more financial benefits from the government than th...
The donors were, of course, the same kind of folks that a tuxedoed George W. Bush described at a fancy dinner a dozen years ago as: "The haves and the have-mores," adding congenially: "Some people call you the elite. I call you my base."
