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She’s Been Here Before
Photo source: Library of Congress Another powerful moment of the Engage conference came from a history professor who spoke. As the professor spoke, behind her on the screen was a portrait of Mercy Otis Warren, a woman most of us were not taught about in school. Warren...
AI Is No Longer Coming, It’s Already Here: How Can You Embrace It?
In the last few weeks I have written about the Engage conference I attended. I didn't expect to leave a conference on women's economic security thinking about artificial intelligence, but there I was, reading a slide titled Top 5 Reasons I'm Excited About AI in...
The Statistic Nobody Wants to Talk About
I heard a statistic at the Engage Conference that truly resonated with me. Money arguments are the second leading cause of divorce in America — right behind marital infidelity. — Ramsey Solutions, survey of 1,000+ U.S. adults Did it surprise you? It shouldn't,...
The Garden and the Fourth
Today, in anticipation of the 4th when we will have company in our yard, I walked out to my back garden to assess. I took stock of what's blooming and what needs a little spruce up. After 30 years of tending this plot, I find the earth underneath my feet incredibly...
Jobs Don’t Have Genders: Opening Opportunities to Everyone
Last week I wrote about a line from the Engage Conference that has stayed with me: Jobs Don’t Have Genders. During the course of the day, I made a list of what needs to be in place for women and those in marginalized communities to both enter and remain in...
Jobs Don’t Have Genders
At the Engage Conference I wrote about last week, the panelists — Dr. Lynn Shaw, founder of WINTER (Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles), Iliana Flores from the Teamsters, Ariane Hegewisch of IWPR, and Lark Jackson of Chicago Women in Trades had me riveted. The...
A Room That Changed My Aperture
Last week, I walked into a building in Washington, D.C. I had never been in before, and I paused. The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream has a ceiling that demands you tilt your head back and stare. Intricate coffered plasterwork, gold detail, and soft...
The Cost of Waiting
I play cards with a group of women. There's a little food, a little wine, and a lot of laughter that gets louder as the evening goes on. When the group first started, the hostess shouted to her husband in the kitchen, with silliness in her voice, "The dessert isn't...
Changing Our Questions
Last week's blog, Less Wrong Tomorrow, clearly struck a chord. The responses came quickly, and many were vulnerable and personal. One reader wrote about caring for her aging father: "We have so many decisions to make, but Dad seems paralyzed. We're uncertain about...
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