Women and Work

Yeah! What she said…

Allyson Kapin has a heroic piece today on the Huffington Post: More and more women are starting their own companies (including tech and web 2.0 ventures). Women make up at least 50% of the Web 2.0 market from a user and consumer perspective. According to TechCrunch, 60% of US Facebook users ...

Michelle Obama’s “momification” is positive too

Rebecca Traister on Salon has a thought-provoking article called "The Momification of Michelle Obama." Traister's thesis is that while it's tempting and wonderful to get excited about "Bamalot" and our new, very now first fanily, it's also an essentially regressive and anti-feminist focus. Traister writes, "But with progress comes inevitable ...

Cathy Benko’s column in New York Times

I read all of Cathleen Benko and Ann Weisberg's Mass Career Customization and, along with Mary Catherine Bateson's Composing a Life, I (perhaps weirdly) keep its message close to my heart. The central thesis of Benko's work is that a career is not a ladder; it's a lattice. Sometimes you ...

The blandness of women’s empowerment lit

Germaine Greer said, "I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover." Ah but you see Germaine, that's exactly where we're at now. So how to help women get on boards without succumbing to the mindlessness of the airport business ...

If Perez says it: Sarah Palin is Queen of the Tabloids

Just what we want for the next four years!! A scandalous, tabloid presidency. Way to go McCain!!! This will really restore America's standing in the world! PerezHilton.com Lindsay Lohan on Palin

The art of compromise (with apologies to Elizabeth Bishop)

The art of compromise isn't hard to master .... compromise something every day. Accept the ambivalence of lost opportunities, the hour spent doing something you don't want to. The art of compromise isn't hard to master. I'm not going to the Democratic National Convention, and I'm sad about it. I am obsessively watching CNN (after a ...

Why I’m a bread and butter voter

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this in the Guardian: "For American women now, money is the ultimate women's issue. Not choice." "The way Washington, DC non-profit organisations, political campaigns and especially the media package the interests of women voters is a case in micro-inequities, those little acts of discrimination ...

It’s the new McCain: Titty jokes and Bush smirks

Cross-posted from the Huffington Post From Politico: "...at a biker rally in Sturgis, South Dakota, John McCain appears to have volunteered his wife for a topless beauty pageant: McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally's traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that's been ...

What I learned from (hot chick on Wired magazine cover) Julia Allison

What kind of ambition drives a woman to appear in a glamour shot on the cover of a nerd magazine under the caption, “Become Internet famous (even if you’re nobody)…Julia Allison and the secrets of self-promotion.” Did you all see the recent Wired cover with Julia Allison? Women on Wired ...

Cobbler has no shoes

My website is in a bad place. I know. I'm in a major transition: career, life stage. And thus, the site is in flux, my bio's in flux, all is flux. I will soon have a lovely, frequently updated site. Until then, remember me fondly and read me elsewhere!