Women need to be heard. To be heard requires understanding and knowledge. In this, women in America are very much like their sisters in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Guatemala. All over the world, women are still dying in childbirth. A woman dies every single minute. In the majority of countries it is usually due to the [...]
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Curve Balls
“This desire for control and flexibility? It’s more than on-ramping and off-ramping. It’s more than a chance to have further education or take a world adventure. More even than to care for the sick and sometimes, the dying.“ It’s been a long year. And we’re only half way. In the midst of global economic trauma, [...]
What Are You Worth?
Power is a loaded word. And often (almost always) goes with money. And asking. And negotiating. Last Sunday I wrote about it in the context of mothers. My friend Lisa Gates has begun something extraordinary at Craving Balance. She has created a learning community, an on-line space where women (it is specifically for women, but [...]
Balance, What Balance?!
Why do I persist in using the term “work life balance” when it has so many complex connotations? I have a very simple answer. Because it’s the lingua franca of the academic research and literature, of corporate programs, of legislation and of every day people. There are those I respect who argue convincingly for alternative [...]
Is it Complicated? Hell Yeah!
Two articles from opposing ends of the work-life spectrum piqued my interest last week. The first starts out like this “You’re meeting with your boss. Your kid’s Halloween parade starts in an hour. If you’re going to make it, it’s time to go – now. What do you do?” Whilst this piece is written with [...]
Work-life Lessons from a Birth Story:
My eldest son is three years old today. He has brought nothing but joy and delight into my life. Even-tempered, curious and cute beyond words, he is a gift every single day. Naturally on his birthday, I am reflective about his actual birth. And birth always gets me thinking about women, medicine and power. Recently, [...]
