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Goal Set: Strive for Career Security vs. Job Security

Shanna B. Van Ness | Posted 05.18.2013 | Women
Shanna B. Van Ness

Understanding the difference between advancing your career versus maintaining a job is essential for professional sustainability in any organization.

Women Are a Critical Part of Immigration Reform: Let's Include Them This Time

Michelle BranƩ | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Michelle BranƩ

As the bill moves through committee and onto the Senate floor, the rights and well-being of immigrant women will depend on Senators keeping women -- and women's realities -- in mind.

Should You Take Back a Lying Partner?

Kristen Houghton | Posted 05.17.2013 | Divorce
Kristen Houghton

The key ingredient in any relationship is trust. Coupled with respect and love, trust gives you a strong basis as a couple. While trust is a bond, it is also a tenuous one, easily broken, if one of the partners constantly lies.

On Being Ariel

Ariel Chesler | Posted 05.17.2013 | Crime
Ariel Chesler

Like many of you, I have been horrified by the atrocities allegedly perpetrated by another Ariel -- Ariel Castro.

Full Circle

Rayya Elias | Posted 05.17.2013 | Women
Rayya Elias

My mother would put on the coat, look at herself in the mirror, and smile. "You see, when it is good quality, it lasts," she would say.

Celebrating National Women Build Week With Habitat for Humanity

Holly Robinson Peete | Posted 05.16.2013 | Los Angeles
Holly Robinson Peete

So many families in the autism community have a hard time living in apartments because of the noise and the specific needs that their children have. Providing affordable homes for these families has just really filled my heart.

Gender Gap Among K Street CEOs: $600,000

Christina Wilkie | Posted 05.16.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Gender inequality is alive and well on K Street, Washington's notorious lobbying boulevard, according to a new report on CEO salaries is...

Celebrating the Highly-Sensitive Man

Judith Orloff MD | Posted 05.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Judith Orloff MD

Empathic men often have a harder time than women because in Western culture sensitivity may be seen as a weakness or too "feminine." This is a huge misconception. The new evolved man is skillful in balancing both the masculine and feminine in himself, embodying his full power.

Facebook Exec Works Four-Day Work Week

Samantha Parent Walravens | Posted 05.16.2013 | Women
Samantha Parent Walravens

Flexible work options will define the future of the workplace. Corporate America will change -- it is already happening -- not just to accommodate the needs of working parents, but to accommodate the younger generations who have grown up on mobile devices.

Joselyne Nibagwire: The Self-Made Entrepreneur

Indego Africa | Posted 05.16.2013 | Impact
Indego Africa

With my participation in Abasangiye, I am lucky to have met new people who have more or less gone through similar situations as I have. Over the years, I have learned to forgive, and I am starting to love people again. I am much more courageous than I was prior to joining Abasangiye.

What Barbara's Retirement Really Represents For Women

Carol Orsborn | Posted 05.16.2013 | Fifty
Carol Orsborn

By the very dint of her fame, Barbara Walters' announcement that she is retiring after 37 years with ABC would always have made headline news. But the true importance of the story is hidden in this quote from the 83-year-old media queen on a May 14th ABC blog: 'I want to find out if there's something I can do besides television.'

GIRL RISING: The Missing Part of the Conversation

Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.16.2013 | Women
Tabby Biddle

Ruksana lives on the streets of Kolkata, India. Despite this, she excels in school, particularly in mathematics and geography. Photo provided by 10x1...

Hey Baby, What's Your Number?: Step Off the Scale

Sheila Moeschen | Posted 05.15.2013 | Women
Sheila Moeschen

Allure's highlighting of Saldana's weight reduces this talented performer to a one-dimensional image, reinforcing the strange and fraught relationship women (and men) have with one of the most reviled twentieth-century innovations: the bathroom scale.

Immigration Reform -- Notes from an African American

Cathy Youngblood | Posted 05.15.2013 | Black Voices
Cathy Youngblood

I entered the hospitality industry in 2010. It took me all of one week to realize what I did not want to believe. My housekeeping sisters, mostly Latina, were treated different than me.

What U Need to Know About U-Visas

Amy Spies | Posted 05.15.2013 | Impact
Amy Spies

We need to hold the Senate to its courageous promise. More U-visas for the criminally abused will mean more liberty, equality, and freedom from injustice for all.

Women Leaders and Work From a Non-Profit Perspective

Tensie Whelan | Posted 05.15.2013 | Impact
Tensie Whelan

There are real strengths in both "male" and "female" traits. We need to learn from the effective traits associated with the opposite gender, and incorporate them into our overall skill sets.

Why You're More Than One Woman

Leslie Rasmussen | Posted 05.14.2013 | Women
Leslie Rasmussen

I'm so many different things to so many different people, and it changes depending on the time of day or even the month.

Do You Still Love Your Husband?

Pam Didner | Posted 05.14.2013 | Weddings
Pam Didner

I feel that my husband is like the air to me. Without the air, I'd suffocate. So do I love air? I suppose I do. I suppose I do.

Punks and Flappers and What They Can Teach Us

Pauline Millard | Posted 05.17.2013 | Women
Pauline Millard

Despite thriving over 50 years apart, these two groups have quite a bit in common and can give us a good refresher course on female empowerment, which is totally having a moment right now.

How A 17-Year-Old Girl Won a Hackathon -- And What It Means for Women in Tech

Eliot Van Buskirk | Posted 05.14.2013 | Technology
Eliot Van Buskirk

The question of how to interest more women in technology fields is one of the most important questions facing us today, for many reasons.

5 Ways to Boost Your Confidence

Gracie Gordon | Posted 05.14.2013 | Technology
Gracie Gordon

Some women may have been born with a naturally high level of confidence. I'm not one of them. While I've always had self-respect and known my value to an extent, over the years it has taken practice to learn exactly who I am and what I have to offer the world around me.

Tristan Prettyman-Musician, Writer, Woman-Talks About Love: Part One

Maria Burnham | Posted 05.14.2013 | Arts
Maria Burnham

Today I had the privilege to chat with singer-songwriter Tristan Prettyman about life, love, heartache, and what it feels like to be a woman in her early 30's.

Government Needs to Lean Out to Help Working Moms

Carrie Lukas | Posted 05.14.2013 | Politics
Carrie Lukas

No set of policies will solve the fundamental challenge women face in balancing work and family: There are only 24-hours in a day, and we cannot be in two places at once. The best we can do is create an environment that leads to a wide variety of opportunities

Anne Frank, Puberty and... Pornography?

Dr. Logan Levkoff | Posted 05.13.2013 | Books
Dr. Logan Levkoff

I was 10 when I read The Diary of Anne Frank. As a Jewish girl, I grew up with the story of Anne. She could have been me; she could have been any of us. The idea that this work could be deemed pornographic is beyond insulting.

My Own Worst Enemy

Kate Baldwin | Posted 05.13.2013 | Women
Kate Baldwin

You may recognize the spiral-downward logic when your internal barometer registers that someone is seemingly much more accomplished -- not to mention much more glamorous -- than you are: What decisions have I made that brought me to this place? Have they been the right ones?