Listen up all young women who think feminism went out with the dinosaurs.  Discrimination against females in the workplace is alive and well. So says Facebook’s COO, Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In.  Never mind that Ellen Pao, former partner with venture capitalist firm, Kleine

Recently, President  Obama held a press conference where only women reporters were given an opportunity to field questions.  His conduct drew much speculation in the media, and the reason may have been a response to some released studies that show women tend to remain silent in foru

I love men. I’ve never been married, but I do love men. I love the way they compartmentalize their thoughts so that when faced with a problem they don’t want to handle, they don’t. They think about football instead. This ability to put off a crisis until tomorrow makes them seem

Debora Spar, president of Barnard College has written a book about women having it all, fresh on the heels of Sheryl Sandberg’s, Lean In. It’s called, Wonder Women, Sex, Power and the Quest for Perfection. Like Sandberg’s work, Spar confesses we women can’t have it all. We mus

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’m one of those fossils who believes “feminist” is a good word. That’s why I couldn’t resist an invitation to attend a “Lean-In Circle,” recently. A group of professional women were meeting to discuss Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In and to talk about her views on why