This piece is cross-posted with permission from RH Reality Check What happens when women, like men, can be parents without bearing children? Does one form of gestation become a status symbol? Another a stigma? Who decides which gestation environment is healthier or more economical? You? Your gamete-partner? Your priest? Your employer? Your insurance company? If [...]
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Eat Girl Scout Cookies to Support Leadership
I can’t get over the attacks on the Girl Scouts. Over the top accusations, generalizing everyone involved and actually hurting the girls…who are after all, girls! I know wrote about this recently, but the attacks from the far right keep coming, and I’m beginning to wonder if I’m the only one upset by it. I [...]
Malawian Women in Public Places
As a young girl growing up in Malawi, I once wore trousers to church. They were a brand new pair purchased on my father’s recent trip abroad. A few minutes into the service, I heard sniggering behind me growing louder and more annoying by the minute. Turning around, I cast dirty looks at the two [...]
The War for Our Future
I’m so angry about the war on women. The debates consume my thoughts and nothing seems more important than talking and thinking about women, and the reality we live in. I feel the need to share with other women how I’m feeling because I know we all feel attacked. This is so much more than [...]
Where are The Women at Davos?
Last week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) convened in Davos, where thought leaders, from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, met to discuss the world’s pressing issues and the innovative new ways that we can solve them. But at a conference so committed to progress, and the progress of women, the [...]
The Ides of March and the Myth of Female Sex Objects in Politics
There she was – pretty and flirty and blonde and sexy and damn cute. Like all female political interns, of course. Because both I and the guy are former political staffers and current young professionals living in our nation’s capital, I wasn’t surprised at all when his idea for a first date was to go [...]
Fighting Domestic Violence as Law Enforcement
For much of our history, domestic violence was viewed not as a matter for law enforcement but as a personal or family matter. Because of that communities often stood by while women and men were being hurt or murdered. Finally, those laws have changed. Today, my former police department in Orlando has a zero tolerance [...]
Navigating the Waters of Donating to Female Candidates
A few months ago I wrote about the need to donate to women candidates. If we want to be better represented we need to support each other as candidates. I have pledged time and again to give more to women candidates. So last week I made my first donations of the 2012 election cycle, and [...]
Talking With Kathryn Bolkovac About The Whistleblower
After seeing (and reviewing) The Whistleblower, I contacted Kathryn Bolkovac, whose story is the basis of the movie, and interviewed her. Her answers speak for themselves, but also give such a sense of her persona, grit and determination. FOSTER: You were faced with a situation where the people you worked with were engaged in something [...]
Why – and How – To Get Political Internships So You Can Get Off the Sidelines
One way to start getting off the sidelines if you are early in your career is an internship with a Congressional office or campaign. While most of what you do won’t be very glamorous, they’re all the things that everyone says about internships—you get your foot in the door, you meet people, you learn how [...]