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I am just back from a bucket list family trip to Acadia National Park in Maine. We chose the dates and I booked the ocean-side campsite back in the spring. As gas prices climbed, we thought maybe this wasn’t the…
Have you noticed lately how many truth-tellers — commonly known as “whistleblowers” — in this country are women? A star example is Cassidy Hutchinson, the young former White House aide whose volcanic testimony in June riveted viewers watching the public…
How a gendered society needs to change to become a better society. Recently, I came across a study showing that as women grow their careers, their household chores actually increase, I realized that this was playing…
Every election cycle you hear “every vote matters”! I can tell you from personal experience how relevant these words are, especially in local elections. In local runoff elections, the stakes are even higher. In 2020, during the peak of…
In 1979 I met Julia Child, the iconic “French Chef” of television and cookbook fame. She and her husband, Paul, came to a reception in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to meet the new class of Nieman Fellows, mid-career journalists who had…
The cri de coeur from U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kentanji Brown Jackson at her confirmation hearings earlier this spring pierced my heart, too. “I’m saving a special moment in this…
The reasons women remain severely underrepresented in technology & coding careers are vast & varied. From systemic differences in how girls & boys are parented or taught from a young age,…
Partisan gerrymandering, i.e., designing electoral maps to benefit a particular political party during the redistricting process, goes against the core value of our democracy: that the people should choose their representatives, not the other way…
The prevailing male leadership style of take charge, be decisive and save the day presents a problem for the workplace today. This masculine way of leading represents black or white thinking that leaves many options on the…
My name is Lily and I’m in 6th grade. My school did something for Black History Month every day last month. Images for Black History Month rotated on the televisions around our school, they put black…