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Book review:
‘Daring: My Passages’ by Gail Sheehy
She belongs to a generation whose lives took place on both sides of a major American fault line.
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The Obama Administration’s stealth plan to remake the workplace
Liza Mundy, director of the breadwinning and caregiving program at the New America Foundation, notes that the first piece of legislation Obama sign...
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The Old Boys Club and the Failure of Peacekeeping
Bill Clinton got the photo op handshake but, in the end, failed. So did Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. John Kerry joins a long list of men ...
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The New Power Wives of Capitol Hill
That’s not unusual. Her days run 18 hours. Having a husband in public life “makes everything a little busier,” she says, but “I do love it.” Still,...
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A Father's Day Wish
BThis Father's Day, I'm thinking about the many ways that dads and moms keep the ever-whirling merry-go-round of life with small kids manageable. I...
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Ousting Women Leaders
It's more than 'management style'
In June 2011, Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock praised the company’s first female chief executive, Carol Bartz, at the annual shareholder meeting. She wa...
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A Decision That Helped Shape Michelle Obama | The New York Times
Liza Mundy: "Race for her has been a little bit of a third rail, an area in which she’s had to be careful...I don’t feel like she has unleashed the...
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D.C. Is Debbie Dingell’s Town
Earlier this winter, Debbie Dingell made time for a chat over lunch at Bistro Bis, a Capitol Hill watering hole not far from the office of her husb...
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Paternity Leave: Why Men Don't Take It, But Should
New mothers usually take at least some time off after delivering a baby, but dads are less likely to take leave. Advocates are pushing more dads to...
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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Work Too Hard
Forget Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia spinning in a blur with her leg impossibly held straight up against her ear. The sight of skier Bode...
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Monica Lewinsky, Reconsidered
Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul and the new politics of an old sex scandal.
Like it or not, we’re having a national flashback to the 1990s—replete with images of thong underwear near the Oval Office, semen-stained blue dres...
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Roundtable: A Trove of Clinton Documents in Arkansas | CNN
Liza Mundy: "[Hillary] uses the phrase 'pain threshold,' and she talks about how people in Washington have a pain threshold that is too low. It sou...
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A Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards
The controversy began—as virtually all political and religious debate in Saudi Arabia does these days—with a provocative tweet. On January 18th, So...
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Book World: ‘HRC,’ Inside Clinton’s State Dept. and the Political Machine
Ah, public service, among the noblest of callings, pursued by selfless individuals who have laid aside greed, ego or other personal gain, devoting ...
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The Most Judged Woman in America
That any American politician is truly self-made is a pretty hilarious notion. While some start out poor or disadvantaged, along the way every polit...
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Shopgirls
A women’s revolution has begun in Saudi Arabia, although it may not be immediately evident. This fall, only a few dozen women got behind the wheel ...
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Daddy Track
The Case for Paternity Leave
When Chris Renshaw told his co-workers that he was planning to take six weeks of paternity leave, they responded with overwhelming support. “It’s d...
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There’s Something About Mary
"At least we don’t have office parties in strip clubs any more,” mused a college friend of mine over a recent end-of-year lunch. She entered a bank...
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Working Parents in High-Powered Jobs
One Spouse Must Make Career Sacrifices
Female breadwinning is a reliably inflammatory topic. Earlier this year, when the Pew Research Center published a study showing that mothers are no...
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The 70-Year-Old Trophy Wife
When envisioning a gleaming, medically enhanced future in which things like implant technology, super-personalized medicine, and organ regeneration...