Damsels, I am writing to tell you that last night I met the proto Damsel in Success. The circumstances of how this meeting came about are unimportant; just suffice it to say that I found...
Dear Debra: I’m 29. My husband and I have an amazing 3-year-old. I’ve worked part-time since he was born. Now, not only do we need my full-time income, I’m dying to dive back into...
"KRUJE, Albania — Pashe Keqi recalled the day nearly 60 years ago when she decided to become a man. She chopped off her long black curls, traded in her dress for her father’s baggy...
I’ve been disturbed by two male cartoonists depicting Sen. Hillary Clinton taking her campaign to Mars. On one, the tagline is “The woman never quits.”
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As women, how can we deal with male co-workers who are socially inept and make inappropriate comments, but aren’t harassing us, per se? One great tactic is humor.
It’s no secret that young Millennials at the office see the world differently than their old-school Boomer bosses. This is the first installment of
Last summer, I asked a cabbie in Manhattan what he thought of Sen. Clinton. I was in NYC off and on for months on a work project and found the cabbies had great appreciation and knowledge of Clinton,...
Yesterday I was in a public loo when I saw something gross that really made me feel sick! Before you censor me, it was only a cigarette packet – but being a non-smoker I was quite shocked by...
As a twentysomething female, I'm very conscious of how people in the workplace view me. I fear being taken advantage of because of my age, race, or gender. I know all about the gender
Monday, November 12. A small political gathering in South Carolina, captured by the local Fox affiliate: A female supporter asks John McCain, "How do we beat the bitch?"
Riffing off of the 2005 New York Times article that claimed, after interviewing a handful of students...
One day when I was working away in my MidLaw Firm office . . . whoosh. A football flew past my door. I popped my head out the door (mistake). Swoosh. That was nearly a Whump, as the football flew...
When I was a little girl, my mother was often waiting for me when I walked in the door after school. We spent countless hours in the kitchen cooking together, while I recounted the details of...
In today’s New York Press writer Marin Resnick argues that the glass ceiling is slowly starting to crack. Citing the much talked about research that women earn more than men in certain urban areas of...