When Will We See A Woman In The Oval Office?

March 31, 2015February 11, 2018Leave a comment

"...certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman President
--maybe sooner than you think.

~ Excerpt of Remarks by President Richard M. Nixon on April 17, 1969
at a Reception Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the
League of Women Voters of the United States.

This entry concludes my series on women
in honor of National Women's History Month
and International Women's Day

In 2016 it will be 240 years since our nation's Declaration of Independence. And in the nearly two and a half centuries that have passed we have yet to see a woman in the White House. Despite the fact that women have comprised roughly half the population from the beginning of our nation to the present and have contributed equally to its founding and growth, there has never been a woman elected to the highest office in the land. I find that bewildering, foolish and, frankly, galling.

Chivalry – The “Benevolent Sexism”

March 24, 2015February 11, 2018Leave a comment

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"I lament that women are systematically degraded
by receiving the trivial attentions
which men think it manly to pay to the sex,
when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft,
from her 1792 book,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Those are strong words from British author and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, who launched feminism in the 19th Century. Back then she and other women were bristling over the practice of on the one hand men bowing to women, picking up their dropped handkerchiefs and opening doors for them while on the other hand denying them independence, education, careers and even the right to own their own property or control their own finances. Women did not even have legal custody of their own children and were considered property of their fathers and later their husbands. While the former treatment of women was viewed by some as "chivalry," the latter was considered by many to be a denial of rights.

FEMINISTS (DO) (DON’T) HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR (Updated March 2025)

March 18, 2015March 9, 2025Leave a comment

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Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible,
and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated,
and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage
will be among the first to celebrate victory. ~ Maya Angelou

Definitions

Feminism: noun
The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. ~ Merriam-Webster.com

Feminist: noun
A person who supports feminism, adjective - of, relating to, or supporting feminism; "feminist literature" - Google

College Campus “Etiquette”: Yes Means Yes, No Means No

March 10, 2015January 18, 20182 Comments

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"Enough is enough.
It’s time to stop sexual assaults on our college campuses."
Whoopi Goldberg

To continue my series this month on women's issues to commemorate National Women's History Month in the U.S. and International Women's Day on March 8, I am focusing on a situation that young women are facing on today's college campuses: rape and sexual assault.

The Women Who Might Have Been Shakespeare, and Other Unsung Heroines

March 3, 2015April 10, 2023Leave a comment

Mary Sidney Herbert Amelia Bassano Lanier

“So far as anybody actually knows and can prove,
Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon never wrote a play in his life.”
~ Mark Twain

Last week I began my series on women to honor National Women's History Month during March and International Women's Day on Sunday, March 8. In that entry I wrote about what women expect on a first date. This week I'm addressing a different kind of date - history dates that turn a spotlight on unsung heroines throughout history whose ideas and inventions either were or might have been credited to men.

The Office Romance Minefield

February 17, 2015February 13, 20231 Comment

Birds do it
Bees do it
With each other employees do it
They do it, they fall in love.

The Obamas did it. The Gateses did it. Even Michael Kors and Lance LaPere did it. They fell in love while working together. And, everything seems to have worked out well for these former workplace lovebirds.

At the other end of the spectrum lives and careers have been left in ruins. Remember NASA astronauts Lisa Nowak and William Oefelein? Or the sensational criminal case involving former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide Christine Beatty, who were involved in an extramarital workplace affair? And the equally sensational end to former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy's administration due to an extra-marital affair with a subordinate.

Romantic Relationships As Viewed From Venus & Mars

February 10, 2015February 3, 2018Leave a comment

Men always want to be a woman's first love.
Women have a more subtle instinct:
What they like is to be a man's last romance.~ Oscar Wilde

With Valentine's Day coming up this weekend, what better time to turn to the subject of romance, which men and women often view through different lenses. While we are all Earthlings it often seems as though we come from different planets, such as Mars and Venus, as John Gray asserted in his bestseller, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.

How to Deal with the Silent Treatment

February 3, 2015February 4, 2018Leave a comment

By John Daly of The Key Class
Reprinted with permission of the author. View the original article.

Let me set the scene. A good friend doesn’t return your voice or text messages. Your emails go unanswered. You get no response whatsoever. This comes out of the blue. You scratch your head and try to figure out what’s happened.

Has this ever happened to you? If so, what did you do? Did the relationship fall by the wayside? What can you do if it happens in the future?

Coping With The Workplace Bully – Part 2

January 27, 2015February 25, 2018Leave a comment

Bullies want to abuse you.
Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators.
Power up and let the bully eat your dust. ~ Nick Vujicic

The last two entries, Scoping Out the Political Landscape and Coping With The Workplace Bully - Part 1 of 2, addressed the related topics of workplace politics and bullying and focused on background and statistics on bullying as well as current efforts to eliminate bullying. According to the Workplace Bullying Institute, here are a few more insights:

Jeanne Nelson

A degree will get your foot in the door. Your soft skills will open it.