Back in February, we watched the Always #LikeAGirl ad during the Super Bowl and thought, “This thing deserves an award.”
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For women entrepreneurs, the United States really is the greatest country in the world. Dell released its first-ever Global Women Entrepreneur Leaders Scorecard this week, and the U.S. emerged as the nation most favorable to women business owners.
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In the year 2018, the literary publisher And Other Stories will only release titles written by women.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that the $10 bill will be redesigned in 2020—and the new bill will feature a woman! (Don’t cry too much for Alexander Hamilton, though—he’ll still appear on the redesigned bill in some fashion.)
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Taylor Swift was not happy when she found out Apple wasn’t planning to pay musicians royalties during a three-month trial period for Apple Music, its new streaming service. On Sunday morning, she took to Tumblr to criticize Apple’s policy and announce that her megahit album 1989 won’t be available for streaming on Apple Music. “We don’t ask you for free iPhones,” she wrote. “Please don’t ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation.”
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With Father’s Day upon us, the role dads play in shaping our future caused me to stop and reflect on my own references on fatherhood: the first being my own father who raised me, and the second being my husband who has been my partner in raising our three sons. I’m thinking especially of how different generations of fathers have encountered different challenges and opportunities.
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My father had more integrity than any person I’ve ever known. He never lied, never embellished, never sugarcoated, never cut corners, never deviated even a little from the truth, and never marched to anyone’s drum but his own. His favorite adage, which he lived by unerringly, was from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice: “To thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
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When my sons were toddlers and I went back to work, my father warned: “You’ll regret this decision when your children are teens and exhibit all sorts of problems.”
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When my thirteen-year-old daughter posed this question about construction signage one day as we were driving to the store, it inspired a series of father-daughter conversations about gender roles, discrimination, women who work, and men who stay home to raise kids (like me).
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My father, Max Feldt, stood 6’ 3” with a personality so big (and the towns we lived in so small) that the postal service once delivered a letter to me addressed only: “To the eldest daughter of Big Max, Stamford, Texas.”
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And her husband, Marco, doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal. In fact, the actress told InStyle it was his idea:
We’ve all heard of her: the “queen bee” woman who achieves professional success and then keeps other women from reaching her perch, or at least can’t be bothered to offer them a hand. This is who Madeleine Albright was referring to when she uttered her famous line, “There’s a special place in hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.” There are many who think that queen bees are partly responsible for the fact that women have a hard time advancing into leadership.
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