When I read the Forbes article Millennial Women Burning Out at 30, I could definitely relate. While I was relieved to know that it’s not just me, I was curious as to why this burn out trend is seemingly impacting Millennial women more than men? First, I want to skip the usual “gender/generation” assumptions. Millennial [...]
Archive | December, 2011
This week’s Taste of Feminism
Reading Materials Robert Massie has written another fascinating book, Catherine the Great. I bought it two days ago, and since then, I haven’t put it down. The story is about Sophia Augusta Fredrika von Anhalt Zerbst, a relatively unknown princess of minor German nobility, who traveled to Moscow to marry her second cousin, Peter, and [...]
Domesticity Doesn’t Equal Anti-Feminist
I read a piece in the Washington Post on Sunday that is still rolling around in my head. Emily Matchar wrote about The New Domesticity. Basically she’s asking a simple question: is the new wave of hobbies for women around knitting, sewing, canning, cooking, etc. a step back or a step forward for women. When [...]