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Ban Bossy
What do you think of the Ban Bossy campaign? Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, has partnered with Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of the Girl Scouts, and former Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice to encourage girls to strive for leadership roles. Their thought is that girls are discouraged from asserting themselves because they don’t want to be called bossy—domineering, prone to giving orders. The campaign argues that if we take away the stigma by banning the word, girls will take … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Lean In', Anna Maria Chavez, Ban Bossy, Condeleeza Rice, Deborah Tannen, feminism, Girl Scouts, girls, leadership, self esteem, sexism, Sheryl Sandberg, STEM, work
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Virtual Book Tour with Cyma Shapiro
We are happy to welcome to our website today, Cyma Shapiro, and her book, The Zen of Midlife Mothering: Essays from MotheringintheMiddle.com. It is the first anthology written by and for midlife mothers! The Zen celebrates the heartbreak and the glory of women choosing motherhood over 40 for the first, repeat, or last time, and of those standing firmly in place as mothers now in mid-life. In this increasingly popular trend of new older parenting, these women do not share a collective consciousness like many of their younger counterparts, … Continue reading
selfies and the oscars
By now, it’s likely that you’ve seen the selfie taken by Ellen DeGeneres at the Academy Awards earlier this week. Perhaps you even retweeted it yourself, along with over three million others, breaking the record at Twitter. And actively participating in the event allowed you to feel more connected to the celebrities who were featured in it – Ellen, Meryl Streep, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o, Kevin Spacey. Or are you one of the 40% of Baby Boomers who admitted in a recent Pew Research … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014 Oscars, Academy Awards, Baby Boomers, celebrities, children, connections, Millennials, Pew Research, posts, privacy, selfies, social media, unplug
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Confused about getting a mammogram?
Breast cancer – the most common cancer among American women (except for skin cancer) – is of vital concern to us, with about 1 in 8 eventually developing the disease. While about 40,000 women die from the disease each year, survival rates have significantly improved over the past 50 years – some say because of better screening, others believe because of enhanced treatment regimens. So it’s not surprising that women debate with each other and question their doctors when new data or policy changes emerge. After the U.S. Preventive Services … Continue reading
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Tagged American Cancer Society, breast cancer, death, doctor, exercise, lifestyle, mammography, research, screening, self care, survivor, walk
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