Women are moving into C-suite positions at a faster rate than ever before. In 2024, 24% of senior leadership positions worldwide will be held by women. Many of those positions are held by women who are also mothers. The conflict between executive management positions and motherhood has not dissipated, even as the glass ceiling is […]
Many people would say that no job is harder than being a mom and a housewife. Taking care of your children while doing the dishes, washing and drying clothes, cooking meals for yourself, your children and your partner (if you have one) can be very exhausting. If you are a housewife, you probably spend most […]
For better or for worse, our first impressions of the world usually come through the people who raise us. Luckily for me, the women in my family were able to gently guide me through any situation, offering their priceless opinions and advice along the way. They conveyed much of their wisdom through words, but I […]
I’m a lucky gal. I am very close with my mom and feel comfortable opening up to her with just about everything under the sun. But there are still a few things that I never, ever, ever, evvvvver want my mom to know about me, mostly because I really don’t want to see or deal with her […]
The holidays means spending more time than usual with your family, which equates to an increase in those passive-aggressive comments your mother used to dole out every hour on the hour when you were growing up in her house. Moms take on a special tone when lovingly criticizing their children that leaves the victim unsure […]
After almost two years at home with my son, I’m going back to work. As I’ve told people the news — family, friends, other moms, the checkout guy at the liquor store who sold me the celebratory champagne, the customer service rep from Citibank’s fraud department who called to check on my unusual activity – […]
We’re on the cusp of “bikini season,” if magazines in the grocery shore checkout line are to be believed. I’m sure you’re familiar with the wide variety of products — ones that remove hair, ones that firm up jiggly thighs, ones that promise to burn stomach fat — which supposedly get a body ready for […]
It always amuses me when something concerning pregnancy, birth, or parenting pops up as a “trend.” Odds are, that “trend” has been in practice for ages, but most likely in non-urban, non-privileged, non-U.S. areas. Take, for example, the notion of using midwives to deliver babies over OB-GYNs. Only when it hit Brooklyn and the New York […]
Today in the world of increasingly boundless parent-child relationships, one chutzpah-filled writer smoked weed with her mother. Specifically, she took her 68-year-old Hasidic mother to enjoy the pungent fruits of Hempcon in San Francisco. And yes, exactly what you think happens at Hempcon happens: it is “America’s largest medical marijuana Show,” after all. So yeah, this fearless […]
