Family structure in the United States magnifies class-based inequality and undermines the human capital of the next generation.
Mika Brzezinski | Posted 12.07.2009 | Business
When you walk out the door after being fired, it's over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing. Stripped of your link to the outside world. I wore my "fired" label on my forehead, having been dumped by CBS at the height of my career.
Posted 11.30.2009 | Impact
Think the glass ceiling for working women in the U.S. is a thing of the past? Not according to some recent statistics by Mother Jones. If you are shoc...
Mika Brzezinski | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
It seems like a woman has to pick her poison. Suffer now, or take "a few years off" and pay later. Women need to know that "taking a few years off" can often lead to a permanent condition of dependence and loss of identity.
Joan Williams | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
For over a decade, I have studied thirty years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. One message is clear -- gender bias, alas, is alive and well.
Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
Brzezinski seems to lack any compassion for the many women who desperately wanted husbands and children, but fate -- not desire -- worked against them.
Lori Sokol | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
Twenty years ago this Thanksgiving, I got married. Two years ago this month, I got divorced. But I am not here to chronicle a marriage gone wrong. I am here to commemorate a divorce that went right.
Irasema Garza | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Just as poverty disproportionately impacts women, so too do the flaws in an out-dated health insurance system. Worse, these inequities fuel each other.
Barrett S. Avigdor, J.D. | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
If men and women see success in the work place and at home as a zero sum game -- I win, you lose -- then we will not move beyond where we are today.
Kristin Maschka | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
The appearance of the Mother piece of pie presents us with a psychological pie dilemma we have to solve to find ourselves again: How do I integrate this huge new piece of who I am into my Identity Pie without making a big old mess?
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
More than half of the women in a recent survey said they take on significantly more responsibility for house and family, but only 28 percent of men saw it that way.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living
When a woman feels creatively, spiritually, and emotionally fulfilled, then she has the mental and physical energy to be the best mom she can be: a Super Mom.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
This week, California's First Lady will use the findings to engage participants in her annual conference on women.
Sheila Lirio Marcelo | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Working moms, once unheard of, have become a cultural norm. Yet we're still mostly trying to find a balance in our home lives when it comes to making care arrangements.
Pauline Millard | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
During visits to Madison Square Park, I started to grasp the complicated terrain of Manhattan Motherhood, and how I wished someone had written a guide about what to expect when breeding in New York City.
Dawn Teo | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Dozens of local mothers descended on the office of Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona Wednesday to denounce what they say are sexist attitudes held by Kyl and the Republican Party in general.
Pew Social & Demographic Trends | Kim Parker | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living
Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family mu...
Laura Pappano | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
As working moms playing gold-medal-worthy competitive beach volleyball in bitsy bikinis, Treanor-May and Walsh may just be giving the rest of us a little more room to move.
Sherry Moss | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Anne Tobas is 55 years of age but says she doesn't feel a day over 21. She recently challenged her 32-year-old son to the 50-yard dash and whipped his behind.
Meredith Lopez | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
My mom speaks out about turning 60.
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
It's wonderful that pregnancy is seen as such a beautiful thing, but it's a shame that motherhood is framed against a backdrop of such beauty [that] no one can live up to.
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Working moms usually know how to get things done fast and without fuss. We aren't afraid to do the messy stuff, show tough love, and get us all to the same place in one piece and on time.
Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 09.05.2009 | Denver
Denver ranks No. 10 on ForbesWoman's first-ever list of America's "Best Cities For Working Mothers." New York tops the list, followed by Austin, Texa...
Christina Patterson | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living
More than 80 years after women were given the right to vote, we seem more convinced than ever that the chief role of women in our society is adornment.
Sherry Moss | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
Most women are stuck in a purgatory between two distinct choices -- work full-time and miss many of their kids' triumphs and challenges, or stay home and miss out on their ability to express themselves professionally in a grown-up environment.
June Carbone | Posted 12.16.2009 | Business