The following  op-ed is featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.
“The end of ‘fair’ comes the day you graduate.”
That’s the tough reality I deliver on campuses in speeches to college women.  Most shake their head in agreement.  They know what lies ahead.
Yes, in 2011, for the first time in history, women surpassed men as recipients of college degrees.  But, once they’re in the workforce, women have vastly different career and pay trajectories.  In fields like corporate management and politics, men still occupy 84% and 83% of leadership roles, …

Two weeks ago today, a college friend communicated some shocking news: our sorority sister and dear friend, Amy Friedlander, was dead. Amy was part of a murder-suicide in which her two young children, and husband, with whom she was days away from finalizing a divorce, were also found dead.
The media that morning described a Westchester home so bloody, that it was not possible to discern, who murdered who. Big mystery, right? Even if I hadn’t known Amy, I could have made a very educated guessed. Women account for 85% of …

Two weeks ago today, I was given some shocking news from a college friend:  our sorority sister and dear friend, Amy Friedlander, was dead.  Amy was part of a murder-suicide in which her two young children, and husband, with whom she was days away from finalizing a divorce, were also found dead.
The media that morning described a Westchester home so bloody, that it was not possible to discern, who murdered who. Big mystery, right?   Even if I hadn’t known Amy, I could have made a very educated guessed.  Women …

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The above is one of several images in the information section of Merck's Web site for its product Gardasil. Click the image to browse the site, or enter this URL: gardasil.com. During the CNN Tea Party Debate this past Monday, sparks flew over an executive order issued by Governor Rick Perry in 2007 mandating an HPV vaccination for all sixth-grade girls. At that time, Perry was the first (and only) governor to issue such an …

Republished from MORE magazine, September 10, 2011.
We go behind enemy lines for the real story.
It’s back-to-school time, which is exciting for the kids except for, oh yeah, all their anxiety over schedules, books, classes and clothing.  Yet those pale in comparison to what moms face coming back this week—another year on the PTA battlefield.

I’m a PTA mom in transition. I spent 19 years working on Wall Street. Three years ago, I left to raise my kids and became more involved with the PTA. Wall Street was easier. Hands down.

Having been …

We’ve just been informed of the passing of Nora Bredes, a true champion of and for women.  Nora was President of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee, a prominent organization in New York dedicated to increasing women’s representation in politics.
Nora will be missed immensely.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family.
Her family put the following note on her Facebook page:

Dear friends,
This is a message from Nora’s family. Nora passed away peacefully on Thursday afternoon after a long battle with breast cancer.
We know this may come as a surprise …

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Last summer, I wrote an article here at HuffPost, Why the ‘Pro-Women’ Movement Should and Will Replace Feminism.   Sarah Palin had just declared herself a ‘conservative feminist,’ while endorsing a slew of diverse women candidates and working to get them elected.  I found her efforts to get more women into leadership, admirable.  The women who apparently own the term “feminist” vehemently disagreed with me.  Rather than welcome Palin with a sisterly embrace, they pursued her with machetes of words for daring to utter their sacred …

Karl Rove has a crush on Nancy Pelosi?  Who knew?
Yes, that’s right.  Rove’s American Crossroads is fawning over the House Minority Leader.  Extolling, via mouthpiece America Crossroads president Steven Law, Nancy Pelosi’s “charm.”
Flattery will get you nowhere, Karl.  Your real agenda is to demonize a woman leader, yet again.
Yes the Pelosi-pander is just a prelude to take a swipe at DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.   According to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads,  Wasserman Schultz is negative.   You heard that right.  Coming from Karl Rove, the supreme king of positivity, whose …

The following op-ed is featured on the front page of The Huffington Post.

A shot from the unreleased documentary, as it is posted at Newser.com.

When the credits rolled at the end of the pre-screening of ‘The Undefeated’ my first thought was this: Why didn’t Hillary’s advisors think of this? It was impossible for our country to know the real Hillary Rodham Clinton through the media’s sexism-colored-glasses during the 2008 presidential race.   The real Hillary was never introduced.  By the time our country finally got to know her post-2008 and …

The following op-ed is featured at The Huffington Post.
Sarah Palin and daughter Piper board her "One Nation" bus after visiting Fox News headquarters in New York on Wednesday. (The Week)
1. Our country has yet to elect a woman president – a national embarrassment! Almost every country in Europe and Latin America; along with India, Israel, New Zealand, Canada, China, Pakistan, Rwanda and many other countries have been led by a woman. The UN cites: “The achievement of democracy presupposes a genuine partnership between men and …