"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.”
 

There’s a great divide emerging between two categories of working women. Have you noticed it? No, I’m not talking about the working mums versus the non-parents – though the...

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If the headlines of almost every major media outlet are accurate, Hillary Clinton's run towards the White House may be nearing the end. Despite her assurances she's still in the race, the political...

I make my living teaching women how to unapologetically own their ambition in a society that has a double standard. It’s our prevailing cultural paradigm: ambitious men are go-getters, but

I've watched the new phenomenon of Mommy Wars with intrigue the last few years.  I always figured that women who are happy with their choices (whether to marry, their career, their life)...

Sexism exists everywhere, and it always will, because the genders are different and those differences affect how genders think and act towards each other.  Pretending that sexism will go away is...

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.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m guilty of a stubborn I-can-do-it-all attitude. I avoid asking for help, and I’m even worse at accepting it when it’s freely offered. For a...

I was quite confident in my decision when I arrived at work that Tuesday morning.  After leaving my law office in midtown Manhattan, I would head over to my polling place and pull the lever for...

We women always try and look on the bright side. Case in point: a friend who was going through a painful divorce and custody battle said to me, “Well, at least I’ll lose a few...

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,...

Last week, one of our local news channels did a piece on women being able to "have it all."  They interviewed a woman who promotes relaxation, and believes that women need to take time...

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

The issue of balance in women's professional lives is of great interest to me.  Recently, I had a conversation with a successful attorney about challenges...

So, I’m curious: can anyone name the current titleholder of Miss America …without using Google? Yeah, I couldn’t either nor could any of my friends and coworkers I surveyed over...

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?"

It's pretty obvious that, if you're a heterosexual woman, having a partner that supports your self-determination will increase the likelihood that you have a satisfying relationship. Most of us know...

Riffing off of the 2005 New York Times article that claimed, after interviewing a handful of students...

This post is an opening argument to the question, “Do women need men and/or children in order to be fulfilled?” The opposing viewpoint, from www.thestateof.com, can be read

That’s the thesis of a piece called The New Girl Order by Kay S. Hymowitz in The City Journal. According to Hymowitz and data on the subject, the single young female (SYF) is bar-hopping,...

I didn’t think it was possible to see any black lining to the recent finding that women in certain urban areas are making

Have you ever had a partner who, despite telling you they love you, constantly asks you to change your clothes, hairstyle, body weight or past times?  In a way this is what women leaders...

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...

In the new media age, the topic of personal branding is getting a lot of coverage. Articles, blogs, entire companies devoted to this term. I think we all essentially know what it means, (for those...

I know a lot of awesome Gen X and Gen Y women. In fact, the city of Madison, WI ranks in the top ten of both female creative class, and female super-creative class percentages in the nation...

According to headlines of late, “Many Women at Elite Colleges Set Career Path to Motherhood.” In that hotly debated New York Times article, the lead paragraph...