Stop Hiding—the Camera Is Your New Resume
If You’re Serious About Reinvention, Buy the Tripod and Hit Record You’ve worked hard, maybe you’ve raised a family, got divorced, or survived something you don’t like to talk about. If you’ve made it to midlife, chances are, you’ve got some battle scars … and stories. But if you’re planning a second act, whether it’s […]
How Ms. Magazine Started a Revolution—and Why It’s Far From Over
The directors of the new HBO documentary Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print talk about the magazine’s storied history and why its “consciousness-raising” is needed now—more than ever. “Try to imagine a life where you are owned by or controlled by the men in your life.” This opening line of the documentary Dear Ms. pulls […]
Death Becomes Her: The After-Party Edition
Rewrite your final farewell, reclaim the narrative, and throw one hell of an after party. Newsflash: You’re going to die. And unlike running into your annoying neighbor at the grocery store, you can’t duck behind a display of Triscuits to avoid it. So how do you want to go out? Quietly buried while your family […]
Cinderella’s Got an OnlyFans—and the Other Princesses Aren’t Far Behind
From MLMs to Menopause, the Disney Princesses are Back—and Way More Relatable At this point in my life, I don’t want the Disney princess dream of a tiara and fairytale romance. I want the version where I sleep for eight uninterrupted hours and a woodland creature scrubs my toilets. Because let’s be real here. How […]
Why the Women of Mad Men Still Matter: Power Moves and Pencil Skirts
Betty, Joan, Peggy. The women of Mad Men still haunt us, intrigue us, infuriate us—and mirror us. Even now, a decade later. While The Sopranos gave us gangsters and Game of Thrones gave us dragons, Mad Men gave us something far more dangerous: Women who dared to want more. They worked in offices, not war […]
Stroke Hits Women Hardest—Here’s What You Can Do About It
Your Age, Race, or Family History Isn’t the End of the Story. Here’s How Women Are Taking Back Control. Sandy Newby tried to speak, but she couldn’t get the words out. One minute she was standing in front of her kitchen counter doing art with her kids, and the next, she was trapped inside her […]
Cybersecurity for Women Who’d Rather Be Doing Literally Anything Else
The Problem: You Are the Target If you’re reading this and interested in cybersecurity for women, congratulations—you’re already on the internet, which means, unfortunately, you’re also on some hacker’s radar. Cybercriminals love an easy target, and women over 50 are often first in line. Why? The tired stereotype of tech-averse grandmothers still lingers—and let’s be […]
Jennifer Jones Kicked Down the Door: The First Black Rockette on Dance, Resilience, and Making History
In 1987, the Rockettes had been high-kicking for audiences for more than six decades—without a single Black woman on the line. It wasn’t an oversight. It was policy, tradition, and intentional exclusion, all masked as a commitment to uniformity and “authenticity.” That changed when Jennifer Jones, the first Black Rockette, stepped onto the stage at […]
Why I Became a Swifty at 50: Taylor Swift’s Power, Genius, and Feminism
Hey Bill Maher: How about you put a sock in it about Taylor Swift’s dating life? She may be able to “handle it,” but she has repeatedly railed against—and sung about—pundits turning her private life into punchlines. The jokes aren’t funny. I can hear the haters now, “Poor, powerful, too-big-to-hang-out Tay Tay, cwying into her […]
The Devil Wears Trendy Trash: The Dark Side of Ultra-Fast Fashion
The True Cost of Ultra-Fast Fashion: Cheap Clothes, High Consequences Is ultra-fast fashion bad for the planet and people—or are sweatshops raising families and nations from poverty? Eighteen years ago, while raising my two young towheaded children, I embarked on a month of consumer celibacy, writing about it for the NRDC’s OnEarth magazine. I was […]
Does Business Really Need More ‘Masculine Energy’? Mark Zuckerberg’s Cringy Take vs. Reality
Mark Zuckerberg’s Masculine Energy in Business Let’s raise a porcelain teacup—pinkies up, ladies!—to Mark Zuckerberg for finally mansplaining to us how the corporate world needs more “masculine energy.” The owner of Meta went on the Joe Rogan podcast in early January to talk up the benefits of aggression in the workplace and complain that corporations […]
Not That Kind of Feminist: Why Boomer Women Struggle With the Label
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