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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There’s a scene in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! that I’ve been thinking about lately. The novel’s heroine, Alexandra Bergson, is confronted by brothers who try to convince her that she’s too old to get married. Their…
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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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Have you heard about the recent release of a new line of Ken dolls? They’re part of toy giant Mattel’s efforts to bounce back from a pretty serious sales slump. At first, I was…
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You may have heard something about The Hollywood Reporter’s interview with Billy Bush that was published this week. It was billed as Bush “breaking his silence” on the infamous Access Hollywood tapes that surfaced…
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Yesterday would have been my mom’s 85th birthday. I miss her often, but I wonder if our relationship with each other would be any different if she were still alive today. If I’m being…
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Of all the myths about feminists and feminism, the most persistent might be the myth of the man-hater. You know that number. It goes like this: Feminists hate men because men don’t like unshaven…