Currently viewing the category:
"Current News & Events"
TEDxPasadenaWomen Highlights!
By Solstice72 On June 3, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Current News & Events, Events, Gender Issues, Leadership, Mothers & Fathers, stereotypes, Unconscious Bias, Women
TEDxPasadenaWomen on May 30, 2015. One of 250 independently organized TEDx Women events happening across the globe in connection with the main TEDWomen event in Monterey CA the same week. 14 speakers, 3 special guests, 100 in the audience. What a […]
On February 24, I spent the day in Silicon Valley at the Watermark LeadOn Conference for Women (#LeadOnCA) along with 5000+ women listening to speakers like Hillary Clinton, Brené Brown and Diane Von Furstenburg. Gloria Feldt led a panel discussion on women and pay equity. Gloria is co-founder and president of […]
Title IX and My Jump Shot: More Powerful Together
By Solstice72 On June 18, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Current News & Events, Education, Gender Issues, stereotypes, Uncategorized
I grew up in a small town in Minnesota in the 1970’s, the oldest of three girls. My father was an athlete in college, so I played ball from the time I could walk. Although Title IX passed in 1972 when I was four years old, it didn’t matter much to me at first […]
Gen X and Social Security: Will We Choose to be Cynical or Practical?
By Solstice72 On June 15, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Current News & Events, Economy, Family, Generations, Money, News & Commentary
My Gen X peers and I come by our skeptical – okay our cynical – world view honestly.
My childhood was bookended by 1979’s energy crisis and the Three Mile Island disaster on one end and 1987’s Black Monday stock market crash on the other. While Boomers experienced the triumph of a man […]
Soon after we had our daughter, I read that elderly women receive far lower Social Security benefits than men due largely to motherhood. Having just become one, I visited the Social Security Administration website. At the top of the page, they reassured me “Social Security is neutral with respect to gender.”
I proceeded to […]
I want to stick a fork in the W.O.R.K. act.
The W.O.R.K. act was proposed recently by a Democrat in response to the media feeding frenzy over Hilary Rosen’s comment that Ann Romney had “never worked a day in her life.” It would allow low-income single parents to count time spent raising children […]
I recently conducted a webinar for Mothers & More on the 6 Biggest Money Mistakes Mothers Make, and I wanted to share my answer to a participant question because it so neatly ties to the also […]
The Connection Between Tax Day and Equal Pay Day
By Solstice72 On April 15, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Current News & Events, Economy, Events, Money, Motherhood, News & Commentary, Remodeling Motherhood
Equal Pay Day and Tax Day often fall in the same week. But the connection between the two is no coincidence.
Equal Pay Day is the day that symbolizes how far into that year […]
Women’s History We Still Live With Today
By Solstice72 On March 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Current News & Events, Economy, Gender Issues, Money, Motherhood, Mothers & Fathers, Remodeling Motherhood, Uncategorized
March is women’s history month and I wanted to share a few tidbits of women’s history that are even less commonly known than most, and history that is still impacting the lives of women and mothers today.
Did you know that…
When the Social Security act was adopted in the late 1930’s, the Council […]
Today’s mothers and fathers have an uphill battle. Here we are struggling to share parenting and employment in a world that still expects us to be in traditional family roles, and a government institution comes along to tell us that when dad takes care of the kids it’s “babysitting”, but when mothers do it, […]
A great read about Linked Learning in the latest Education Week.
~ Kristin
With a program called Linked Learning, California educators show that academics and career and technical education don’t have to be mutually exclusive By Catherine Gewertz Porterville, Calif.
To the national debate about whether students should pursue career […]
Newsletter
- Load More...
.@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he's spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he'll build an America that lives up to our ideals.
I'm honored to join him as our party's nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.It's time for women to lead the way. Making calls for @Lindsey_Port to help #FlipMNSenate as the news arrives that @KamalaHarris is @JoeBiden #VP pick. Great women like @aleta4mnsenate & @sarabflick running everywhere! 83 days folks. Get busy, give now. Let's do this!
Today is Primary Day! To find your polling place and other important information be sure to go to http://LindseyPortMN.com/Vote! Be sure to #MaskUpMN at the polls and cast your vote safely!
I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.
Check out my book "This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling #Motherhood" on #BookBuzzr #moms #family - http://bit.ly/2dbgsJa
Check out my book "This Is Not How I Thought It Would Be: Remodeling #Motherhood" on #BookBuzzr #moms #family - http://bit.ly/2dbgsJa
Good for these young men. @NCAA and their universities have failed them. @PlayersTribune
A dozen Pac-12 football players release a wide range of demands, threaten a boycott https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-08-02/pac-12-football-players-release-list-of-demands-to-avoid-boycottAlarming disregard for the very principles our democracy was founded on. This country will vote on November 3rd. https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1288974105417588736
Categories
Search
You Can Do What Mayer and Slaughter Do
What’s stunning about the reaction to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” and the news that new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is pregnant is the size and scope of the reaction itself.
And I can explain that reaction with a screen shot.
Those two tweets.
The […]