The Chicago Tribune has a very moving article. Mugabe's people have been killing members of the opposition party and we worry about our presidential candidates making poor jokes...  Kalyn sent me these links from Field to Feast, an African food blog- a post from April with hope: "A week ago today, the ...

First weekly column is up today... When it comes to marriage, the more things change, the less things change. In a society where mothers who work full-time still do twice the amount of housework and even more childcare hours as working fathers, the idea that Dad would give up his career ...

At the recent PDF Conference in New York, Arianna Huffington faced the audience and said, "I want you to listen to me." What she meant was, stop multi-tasking for a second. Stop Twittering, blogging, IM-ing, catching up on email, or reading Gawker and listen. We all hear, we're adept at hearing ...

As any Democrat knows, "Working Families" are a staple of any good Dem's rhetoric. The concept of "helping America's working families" is so often used, it loses its power as a concept. But the "working women" campaign the Obamas are running this week is new. The title of Obama's theme ...

Women's social networks are famous for being dense. We talk amongst ourselves, online and offline. Before women entered the workforce, their social networks were almost entirely female. Even still women's networks are more female than male, and contain fewer weak ties (See Ronald Burt). Their networks are less rich in those ...