While the current president spent his weekend badmouthing the FBI on Twitter, his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, was in Paris speaking about the great need for more women in elected office. As the AFP reported (via Huffington Post), Obama made an appearance at this weekend’s Les Napoleons summit—a communications event that gathers leaders in…
Read moreAfter The New York Times published an explosive report detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, dozens of women came forward with their own accusations against the Hollywood mogul. Within a week, Weinstein had been fired from his company and expelled from the Motion Picture Academy. Now, in a post-Weinstein world, legions of…
Read moreWe can always trust former First Lady Michelle Obama to speak up about important issues facing women—and to share some sound wisdom while doing so. She’s spoken out about the ways parents can better raise children so that when the kids reach adulthood, the men don’t feel so problematically entitled and the women feel more…
Read moreOn Wednesday Former First Lady Michelle Obama took to the stage at the inaugural Obama Summit alongside poet Elizabeth Alexander for a wide-ranging discussion on topics like Twitter, raising children and the crucial importance of self-care. But perhaps her most pointed and valuable advice was for men in America and their grave need to get…
Read moreI was sexually assaulted in college. While that’s a horrific sentence to type, it’s not an uncommon one: more than 17.7 million American women could write some version of it if they really wanted to. And many are, thanks to the #MeToo movement that’s happening across social media. Women around the world are coming together,…
Read moreMotherhood isn’t about finding a way to fit everything in or, god forbid, have it all. You learn that pretty quickly—say, two to three weeks into this mess. Trying to do it, you discover, will only lead to a cascade of tears in a restaurant bathroom where you’re shoving toilet paper into your bra to…
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