American feminists have generally stressed the ways in which men and women should be equal and have therefore tried to put aside differences.... Soci….

There are three pillars, regardless of your work culture, whether you're in Silicon Valley or on Wall Street: how you look, how you speak, and how yo….

There are six elements of gravitas critical to leadership: grace under fire, decisiveness, emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room, int….

Women have made enormous progress on the lower and middle rungs of the career ladder, but we are failing to make the leap into senior positions. Ever….

Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibil….

Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It s….

Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form of public policies designed to he….

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future..

There are simple rules of engagement: You need to have your voice, but it has to be very intentional - be brief and to the point, with fresh ideas. D….

If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you mo….

The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest f….

The degree to which the child-rearing professionals continue to be out of touch with reality is astounding. For example, a widely read manual on brea….

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the….

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived..

Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cul….