Last week, a friend posted a question on Facebook: how do working women deal with people in the workplace who call them sweetie rather than using their given name? (Or honey, or girl, or . . .…
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I’ve written before about my decision not to dye my graying hair any longer. As I mentioned then, hair color was never really an effort to hide the fact that I was aging. It…
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Last fall, my son asked if he could interview me for a class project. The assignment, as he explained it to me, was to interview “a powerful woman.” It’s hard to turn down a…
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Ever since the wave of #Metoo narratives began maing its way across social media, I’ve been having lots of conversations about what “counts” as sexual harassment. It’s probably not surprising that women have a…
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When Mike and I got engaged, in 1988, it didn’t even occur to me that I’d change my name after we got married. And I mean that sincerely–I didn’t give it a thought. But…
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In the week since the Women’s March on Washington (and the man sister marches that took place that same day–including the March on Austin, in which I participated), I’ve been handed one example after…
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You may have noticed that I skipped a post last Friday. That happened for several reasons: It was my birthday. It was also inauguration day. As a friend put it in a Facebook birthday…