Women’s Issues

August 26, 2010: Women’s Equality Day

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August 26 officially marks 90 years since American women have been allowed to vote. Most anniversaries are nostalgic, with the news media hauling out newsreel footage from their archives to give viewers a glimpse of a [...]

Turning Off and Tuning Out: Practicing “Good Sleep Hygiene”

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The following post by Dana Wood is an excerpt from her new book, Momover: The New Mom’s Guide to Getting It Back Together (even if you never had it in the first [...]

Queen of Your Own Life: Interview with Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff

I just finished reading Queen of Your Own Life and I’m excited to be interviewing the authors today. Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff are highly accomplished women and best friends. Kathy is best known for playing Mimi Bobeck on The Drew Carey [...]

Successfully Balancing Your Business Life and Family Life

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I committed to writing this post for She Takes on the World at the beginning of January when balancing baby and business seemed quite easy! Right after committing, life through a wrench in the flow, [...]

WHY is the Happiness of Women Declining?

BalanceThe subject of women’s happiness has been thrust into the spotlight recently, following the publication of The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness, a study that shows women are less happy than 40 years ago despite having far more opportunities. A subsequent article by Marcus [...]

Women in Business and Entrepreneurship Series Part 1 of 3: My Experience as a Woman Entrepreneur

More women own businesses than ever before but there are still challenges we face and myths surrounding women entrepreneurs. In this three-part series on women in business and entrepreneurship I will discuss my own experiences, facts and statistics about women and entrepreneurship, and challenges we need to overcome as we move forward.

My parents raised me [...]