We Are the 51%
April 20, 2012
Today is the last day of Equal Pay Week but only the beginning, I hope, of our collective efforts toward pay equity for all, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or race. In Wednesday’s post, I discussed the Equal Pay Day event in NYC that I attended on Monday. Of course, a single post cannot sum up [...] Read more...
Equal Pay Week
April 18, 2012
As many of you know, this is Equal Pay Week, a time to refocus on the gender gap in pay between women and men. It’s hard to believe that even in 2012, U.S. women are still earning annually between 52 and 78 cents for every dollar men earn for the same jobs, with black women [...] Read more...
When What Divides Us Unites Us
March 23, 2012
I almost feel like a broken record coming back to the issue of anti-woman legislation and political rhetoric over and over again, but new attacks on women crop up every day. It’s truly our political system that is broken. I am amazed that we can even consider pointing the finger at the human rights abuses [...] Read more...
The Future Is in Her Hands
March 9, 2012
On Monday, I talked about two physics concepts that apply to our lives, our work, and our world: resonance and dissipative structures. Resonance teaches us that with the right timing, those of us of like mind, on the same wavelength, will have a magnified effect on the world when we come together—a much greater effect [...] Read more...
Not Much of a Leap for Women
February 29, 2012
Today is Leap Day, an extra day in our calendar every four years to compensate for the fact that the Earth actually takes 365 1/4 days to revolve around the sun. Leap Days (and Leap Years as a whole), like any unusual days, have several traditions and superstitions associated with them. In Greece, marrying in [...] Read more...
No One Wins the Waiting Game
February 20, 2012
We’re still waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change. We keep on waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change. One day our generation Is gonna rule the population. So we keep on waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change. Know we keep on waiting (waiting) Waiting on the world to change. . [...] Read more...
“But I Am Not a Visionary”
February 10, 2012
I’ve written a lot about the visionary voice we all have inside us, the qualities of a visionary and how that voice can guide us toward making a difference in the world while simultaneously achieving sustainable, meaningful success in our lives and work. Many of you are no doubt aware of this voice. Maybe you’ve [...] Read more...
Humanility
January 18, 2012
Another quality of the visionary, along with presence, truth telling, discernment, wisdom, etc., is a combination of empathy and humility that I call humanility. Being humble is to be free from false pride and arrogance. It does not mean lacking confidence or being falsely self-deprecating, for it rests on a clear sense of the truth [...] Read more...
Presence and Invisibility
January 13, 2012
The phenomenon of growing increasingly invisible as we age, and using that invisibility to empower us and others to be change agents, is related deeply with the visionary attribute I discussed in November—presence. (See “Unwrapping Your Presence” and “Stop, Look, and Listen”). The invisible power to fly under the radar and quietly lead change, which [...] Read more...
The Invisible Woman
January 11, 2012
Women tend to have the blessing and the curse of being invisible, especially as we approach 50 and beyond. The negative side of being invisible is clear to most of us. The world no longer seems to notice or care about us or what we have to say—if they ever did in the first place. [...] Read more...
