Cross posted with permission from Feminist.com Excerpted from the book Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice by Marianne Schnall. Copyright © 2010. Excerpted with permission from Blue Mountain Arts.    Over the course of my career as a freelance journalist, I have had the great [...]

Cross-posted with permission from patriarchalDISORDER Since I created the Google Map "Mapping the Femisphere," I’ve had requests to get on the Map (by invitation only and I welcome requests) from people I don’t know.  So, I’ve inquired about their work as a feminist or other, especially after clicking on their website, blog or Facebook page [...]

Thanksgiving has never been a favorite holiday of mine. I’m thankful for many things, and take time to consider them this time of year. But eating huge amounts of food – most of which I just am not a big fan of – is lost on me. Last week Time magazine put out a list [...]

Thanksgiving.  While this day normally conjures up an image of 20 people seated around a beautifully-laid table filled with delicious food and wine, in recent years my family has rarely had more than five people at the dinner table.  I’d like to say that this is because we do not have a large family or [...]

By Merle Hoffman, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. "Funny," people would say, "you don’t look Jewish. Funny, you don’t look like a concert pianist. Funny—you don’t look like a feminist." But I was all of those things and more. [...]

If you haven’t seen it already, I highly recommend this post by John Shertzer over on his blog, Fraternal Thoughts. In the post, John discusses the influence women have over men—and how women can use this influence to change sexist (or otherwise negative) behavior. John offers specific suggestions for how women can encourage men to [...]

Reading Materials: Are you looking for a fun and light book? Read the new novel "Beachcombers" by Nancy Thayer, which chronicles the story a single father and his three daughters, who are now adults dealing with separate life troubles (more info at Elevate Difference). The memoir “Just Kids” by Patty Smith tells her story living [...]

Chivalry.  Feminism.  Chivalry and feminism.  Can those words go together?  Are they two completely unrelated ideas that can really co-exist?  I question myself on this at times.  The other day I struggled outside my office building trying close my umbrella, while keeping my all important coffee cup upright, hang onto my bags and get through [...]

We have come so far over the past 50 years, and yet the road stretches out in front of us beyond the horizon. How it is that, in the 21st century, paycheck fairness can be so difficult to pass? And why, oh why, did women vote against it?  I was once asked why it matters [...]

Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman As part of a move to create a space for an “exchange of dialogue,” Patricia Duff founded the organization The Common Good.  Her goal is to make sure that people are willing to keep an open ear and have conversations that “aren’t limited to sound bites.”  The group has [...]