The American myth is that hard work makes you rich. But the work of enslaved people didn't make African-Americans rich. Women's work never made women rich.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Released from old biological constraints, women have flooded the universities and climbed career ladders, redefining "women's work" by expanding it to include just about every field, and doubling our national talent pool.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
During a recession, gains for women earned through years of effort may be swept away in the undertow of layoffs, when flexibility and diversity efforts suddenly disappear.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 01.08.2009 | Home
While Obama aims to fund traditional infrastructure-maintenance work, in the big picture, good, affordable childcare shores up infrastructure of an even more essential kind, our citizens.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
While this political season won't yield a woman president, it has seen a movement of women into the political forefront as never before.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics
Will Palin's difficulty on the big stage set back the progress of women into higher office?
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living
This year Labor Day and Women's Equality Day bookend the week: a timely conjunction, since tension over what properly constitutes women's work is the crux of much of our current public discourse.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 09.27.2008 | Style
Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.
Meizhu Lui | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business