During the most recent surge of Covid-19, I lost track of a friend.  She didn’t answer messages left on her cell phone, landline, or email.  Naturally, I was relieved to get a message last week.  She said her doctor had hit a nerve during a medical procedure and it had caused her

Poor Barbara Streisand.  While promoting her new music album  Wall, she made a boo-boo.  She said white women didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Presidential election because they didn’t know their minds and followed the advice of their husbands.  The remark  caught

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton described Donald Trump as “temperamentally unsuited” for the office.  How prescient her words were.  Most of us now know the holder of the nation’s highest office is, indeed, temperamentally unsuited.  Neither a prudent n

In the closing chapters of her best seller, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg makes the following observation about her generation’s attitude toward feminists.  In our defense, my friends and I truly, if naively, believed that the world did not need feminists anymore. We mistakenly thought

I sat down to tea with a woman who’d retired recently. She was the daughter of a dear friend, now deceased, and so we walked down memory lane together, recollecting her mother’s life as a homemaker. As the 93rd anniversary of the Women’s Rights Amendment (August 18, 1920) had ju

I’ve been invited to be a panelist at a women’s conference in November. Four generations of participants will discuss how the women’s movement has changed their lives. I represent the past, of course, so I decided to refresh my memory by rereading Betty Friedan’s seminal book,

A quiet revolution is going on in the United States and while I am heartened by it, I’m not sure where it is taking us. I’m referring to the creep of women into positions of authority and the concomitant fact that many are the sole breadwinners in their families. I’m not referri