U-S-A! U-S-A! The United States Women’s National Team defeated Japan 5-2 to win its third World Cup on Sunday, its first title since the 1999 team won it all and changed women’s sports forever. The U.S. was led by Captain Carli Lloyd, who scored three goals in 16 minutes in what many are calling the greatest World Cup final
Read MoreI was only 33 in 2007 when my beloved husband, Roy, died from adrenal cancer. Although I have a master’s degree in clinical social work and I work full time in this capacity, little prepared me for coping with his death.
Read MoreThere are women astronauts. There are women oceanographers. There are women veterinarians. And now there are LEGO women who do all of those things, too!
Read MoreBack in February, we watched the Always #LikeAGirl ad during the Super Bowl and thought, “This thing deserves an award.”
Read MoreFor 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.
Read MoreIn the year 2018, the literary publisher And Other Stories will only release titles written by women.
Read MoreU.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.)
Read MoreTaylor 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.”
Read MoreWith 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.
Read MoreMy 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.”
Read MoreWhen 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.”
Read MoreWhen 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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