What to pick up when you drop the ball
Even as women make great strides in the workplace, many feel like they shoulder an unequal percentage of the work at home. And so, discussions …Read More
Category Archives: Women
Reading Virginia Woolf at a wrestling meet
I spent Saturday morning as I have many a wintry Saturday morning this year: driving to a wrestling meet in some new corner of Pennsylvania. …Read More
What does tenure take?
I have long been fascinated by the academic concept of tenure. Like making partner in a law or consulting firm, getting this offer of a …Read More
Invest in your happiness (or perkiness)
I am by and large, a cheap person. I prefer the term "frugal", but sometimes we need to call it like it is. Nowhere is …Read More
Reader time makeover: Adding exercise and writing to an incredibly full life
Whenever I poll audiences about what they'd like to spend more time doing, exercise almost always comes out on top. Push a little bit more, …Read More
The TED experience
So it has been quite a day. I did not make it through the whole thing to the bitter end -- so, alas, I only …Read More
Greetings from San Francisco
I'm in San Francisco this week to speak at TED Women. The actual talk is tomorrow, but I was able to practice on stage today, …Read More
Fertility and false choices
Infertility has many causes. Plenty of young women have trouble conceiving, a fact that doesn't get talked about much because there are no larger social …Read More
It is OK to miss a soccer game
I made a conscious decision to skip town last week ahead of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and I didn't watch much of either …Read More