This is The Year of the Woman. Again. As a result of Tuesday's elections, the 113th Congress will include the highest number of women senators ever: 20. Hate to be a killjoy but the truth is that even with this improvement women are still woefully underrepresented in this country.

Few things are more resistant to change than the cultural ideal of a woman fulfilling her role as a wife and mother.

Who gets to decide what the narrative for women in politics really is? Is it the female candidates who choose to run? The media that interprets them to the public? The platforms they align themselves with?

Our evolving global economy is demanding new skills and roles for both men and women, the question is not whether the new era favors women over men but how each must adapt to new demands and realities.

The way the Red Sox represent the psyche of a state is known to all. This is not state-specific. Sports play a huge role in politics and life. And that's where Coakley dropped the ball.

You twenty-somethings who are reading this, if you can't take your day job after being part of such a political earthquake like last week's election, go find your local Member of Congress and apply for a job.

Conservative lip service to ideas like free markets and a strong defense produced neither. These "values" were never actually turned into priorities for policy making.

Should these "women's groups" be seeking to advance women, any and all women, into positions of power or any candidate, male or female, who agrees with their politics?

Aside from senior army generals, the wealthy elite, and a handful of fat cat politicians, the widely hated Musharraf was left with almost no support at home.

Hillary Clinton didn't clinch the nomination, yet her impact on the process has been indisputable. There is a great deal for women to celebrate.

For countless women, Gloria Steinem is the personification of their own struggle with gender issues. From the stage, she paid homage to women of accomplishment in their respective fields that were in the audience.