I joined 5,000 women in Washington, D.C. for the first ever White House Summit on the United State of Women this week. And I left the historic event inspired, and humbled, and asking the same question that I arrived with, what is the current State of Women in…
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A Conversation: All The Feels About 'Feel Like'
A few weeks ago The New York Times issued the latest directive on casual speech. The new targeted phrase? “I Feel Like." In a Week in Review op-ed the writer Molly Worthen, an author and professor at the University of South Carolina, told readers to stop using the phrase…
17 Women Share What It's Like To Be A Voting Woman in 2016
To be a woman voting in 2016 is to be a woman scrutinized. Acknowledge that gender is a factor in your voting decision and you're attacked as foolish. Choose to vote without gender in mind and you are ignorant. Pundits continue to debate the generational divide, and speculate as to…
Where Were You At 29?
An interview with mom. I’m 29, tell me about what your life was like when you were my age. When I was 29, I was beginning my 3rd year living in Copenhagen. I had gotten married just 2 years before. This was the early 80’s in the Midwest…