From Teen Vogue authored by Andrea Park: “In the past few years, Lady Gaga has spoken out time and again about the mental and physical pain she’s experienced due to her fibromyalgia, mental health issues, and ongoing trauma from the sexual assault she experienced at age 19. On Monday night, while being honored at Elle‘s Women in Hollywood event in Los […]
Category Archives: Family & Personal
The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world
From The Guardian authored by Harriet Griffey: “It is difficult to imagine life before our personal and professional worlds were so dominated and “switched on” via smartphones and the other devices that make us accessible and, crucially, so easily distractible and interruptible every second of the day. This constant fragmentation of our time and concentration […]
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights
From The New Yorker authored by Sarah Stillman: “Helen—a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl—is an asylum seeker from Honduras. This summer, when a social worker asked her to identify her strengths, Helen shared her pride in “her ability to learn fast and express her feelings and concerns.” She also recounted her favorite activities (“playing with her dolls”), […]
Overworking ourselves is overrated and unhealthy. Why is it so hard to respect work-life balance?
From The Lily authored by Brianna Gilmartin: “Why does our society perpetuate the idea that people must be constantly working in order to be worthy of respect? I get tired of the way our culture fetishizes overworking. People contribute to this by competing over who has worked the hardest, longest hours as though overworking makes […]
This is the cost of women’s workplace emotional labor
From Fast Company authored by Gwen Moran: “Welcome to being a working woman in the 2010s, where the gender pay gap, scant leadership representation, and negotiation backlash—not to mention #metoo and #timesup—are common workplace land mines. Be sure you regulate your composure so you’re not too “abrasive.” Also, we’re going to need you to do your part for workplace culture by […]
Make an Ass of Yourself: How to Embrace Your Imperfections and Live Unfiltered
From Extreme You authored by Sarah Robb O’Hagan: “In the Spring of 2009, I had just returned to work after giving birth to my third child, when I received an excited request from the PR team to participate in a photoshoot for a media article about the turnaround of Gatorade. Those were still the glorious […]
Powerful Women Talk About Power (And Powerlessness)
From The Cut introduction by Hanna Rosin: “’You have power when so many women are powerless!’ said a sexual-assault survivor as she confronted senator Jeff Flake. The woman who spoke these words was, at that moment, pinning him into the corner of an elevator. He looked stricken and ashamed, like a boy caught with one foot out […]
Doctors Put Lawyers To Shame When It Comes To Practical Training
From Above the Law authored by Jordan Rothman: “It is well understood that law schools do a terrible job at training law students to be practicing attorneys. Indeed, many law schools have absolutely no practical component, and merely teach students how to read cases, digest points of law, and write law school exams. Most law […]
Teach boys to own their actions, not that girls ‘ruin everything’
From ESPN W authored by Katie Barnes: “Girls can be blamed for just about anything. It’s been a thing since the dawn of time. Just ask Soddy-Daisy High School assistant principal and athletic director Jared Hensley. Hensley announced a rule Wednesday morning that banned the wearing of athletic shorts at school. He said the code […]
How Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony Changed America
From TIME authored by Hailey Sweetland Edwards: “History often seems inexorable in hindsight, shaped by powerful figures operating beyond our control. But when Dr. Christine Blasey Ford walked in to face the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 27, raised her right hand and swore to tell the truth, it was clear that an unassuming psychology […]
