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TEDxPasadenaWomen: How I Learned to Love Unconscious Bias
By Solstice72 On September 11, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Career-Life Fit, Change, Family Work, Fatherhood, Gender Issues, Leadership, Motherhood, Mothers & Fathers, stereotypes, Unconscious Bias, Women
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Let go of being right and notice your own unconscious bias. One humbling way is to take the 15-minute Implicit Association Test from Harvard. Notice unconscious bias out loud. Notice it out loud in person, share it with us on Twitter and Facebook. Change the […]
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 […]
Both men and women rank sharing household chores as the third most important ingredient in our recipe for a successful marriage, right behind faithfulness and good sex. Yet the latest data tells us that in dual-earner couples, mom is still doing more housework and more childcare than dad does. Surprisingly, when […]
I am so fed up with advice from people telling women that if they just make the right personal choices at the right time in the right order then there is no problem fitting career, marriage, and kids into our lives.
That’s a load of crap. If anyone had been able to figure out a […]
“Can I Have It All?” is the Wrong Question
By Solstice72 On July 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Career, Career-Life Fit, Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood, Mothers & Fathers, Remodeling Motherhood, Work-Life Fit
When I speak to groups of young women and men, more and more frequently the question I get isn’t “Can I have it all?” it’s “Should I have kids at all?”
Young women and couples watch as friends have children, and see new mothers and fathers completely stressed out juggling work and family, marriages […]
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 […]
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, […]
Why Families Today Have No Time
By Solstice72 On February 2, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Family, Family Work, Motherhood, Mothers & Fathers, Remodeling Motherhood, Time
In my life before motherhood, I led time management training sessions for employees of a big company. I indoctrinated everyone in the Franklin-Covey system for managing time. Before the age of iPhones, I kept my own binder-size day-planner and later a Palm Pilot at my side to manage my own time. But they were no […]
Our Favorite New Year’s Tradition – Making Resolutions Together (Repost)
By Solstice72 On December 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Career, Career-Life Fit, Family, Family Work, Fatherhood, Holidays, Kids & School, Marriage, Money, Mothers & Fathers, Parenting, Resolutions
I’ve always been a New Year’s Resolutions sort of person, but the process became so much more powerful about ten years ago when my husband and I started making them together. Our New Year’s Resolutions ritual was one of many experiences that helped me realize one of the key points of my book, This […]
Creating a Family Vision: Part 2
By Solstice72 On December 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Career-Life Fit, Family, Mothers & Fathers
In “Creating a Family Vision: Part 1” I described how my husband, daughter and I spent part of our vacation in January creating vision board collages. We each thought about the day of our daughter’s high school graduation and then collected magazine images that reflected our feelings and […]
As families across the country face a week (or more!) with kids out of school, parents who may or may not have days off themselves, and competing demands for who wants to do what with their time, I thought I’d share a facilitation tool I’ve adapted for our family when we have extended family […]
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I’m still trying to get over the fact that the two senators representing Destination MEDICAL Center voted against requiring masks in the #mnleg. Especially after a member of their own caucus died of COVID-19.
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1/ Covid (@UCSF) Chronicles, Day 310
What a joy watching Fauci's press conf. today. Last yr must have been torture for him, a brilliant man of great integrity. How liberating to speak truth w/o looking over his shoulder, & how uplifting to listen to him! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GJMDYZ2LNcWe are building a partnership with the American people to confront COVID-19.
A partnership rooted in transparency and science.
And together, we will mount an effective response to the pandemic that gets us all back to our lives and loved ones: https://www.whitehouse.gov/priorities/covid-19/I am honored to be the first male spouse of an American President or Vice President. But I'll always remember generations of women have served in this role before me—often without much accolade or acknowledgment. It’s their legacy of progress I will build on as Second Gentleman.
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Social Security: Neutral in Name, Sexist by Design
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 […]