Let’s Get Radical: Support International Women’s Day 2021

Issue 162 — March 8, 2021

This March 8 is an International Women’s Day like no other.

Let’s first take a moment to recognize the millions globally who have suffered illness and those who have died from Covid-19.

The day we now celebrate with flowers and tributes to the advances women have made began in 1909 as a radical call by women in the Socialist Party of America for workers’ rights and women’s rights — both very radical notions at the time. This included safe workplaces and efforts to prevent sexual assault and violence in war zones and elsewhere. Sound familiar? Not really so very radical is it?

The SumGloria FeldtMarch 8, 2021International Women's Day, carpe the chaos, gender roles, gender equality, Covid-19Comment

Barbie Is a Career Woman Now

At least, that’s what Mattel wants you to think. And we have to admit: with marketing like this, we might be convinced, too.

The company just released a new ad that rebrands the iconic doll as a source of inspiration for young girls. If your daughter plays with a Barbie, Mattel seems to be saying, she’ll grow up believing she can be anything she wants to be, whether that’s a professor, a veterinarian, or a football coach.

Looking Ahead: The Evolution of Male-Female Relationships at Work and at Home

I recently welcomed my first grandchild to the world—a beautiful baby boy named Greg. Shortly after he was born, I was asked what I would like his world to look like 25 years from now—in terms of gender roles and relationships both at work and at home.

Anne-Marie Slaughter Has Unfinished Business

The author of the viral 2012 Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” has a new book out on Tuesday: Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family.

Anne-Marie Slaughter's Husband Speaks Out

Three years after Anne-Marie Slaughter’s dynamite Atlantic cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” her husband, Princeton professor Andrew Moravcsik, is going public about his role in their dual-career marriage.

All the Powerful Quotes You Need from Take The Lead’s Virtual Happy Hour with Gloria Steinem

I’m pretty passionate about advancing the rights and opportunities of women, so I talk about it a lot. But when you get the chance to hear longtime activist, author, and co-founder of Ms. Magazine Gloria Steinem talk with Take The Lead Co-Founder and President Gloria Feldt, you just listen – listen and learn

Lex SchroederAugust 25, 2015#SisterCourage, Activism, gender roles, Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, Transformation, Virtual Happy HourComment

Florence Nightingale: One of the World’s First Feminists

Florence Nightingale is widely recognized as the founder of modern nursing. What’s far less known is that Florence Nightingale was one of the world’s first feminists.

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