Change starts with noticing what’s happening and then wondering what’s possible. Think of any “successful” civil rights movement around the world. Thinking might have started out as a reaction against injustice shifted somewhere along the way to wondering, “what’s next?” “What’s possible?” The U.S. suffrage movement experimented with different approaches to female suffrage – state by state …
According the Harvard Business Review, this is how women described gender discrimination in the workplace – it’s like “something in the water.” It’s rarely overt, but it’s there. The examples could be considered inconsequential yet nagging. However, add up those examples (ok, dear?) and one generates a profile of second-generation gender bias. HBR defines second-generation …
Women in the United States didn’t gain the right to vote in 1920. Nope. Women in the United States regained the right to vote. Women voted in the U.S. colonies before 1920. The intersections of gender, race, social class, age, religion, nation, politics, and democracy have always mattered in this country. Women (privileged women) voted …
My grandmother created them. My mother kept them safe. I discovered them. My daughter wanted them. And, together we both met my grandmother for the first time as we canned her homemade pickle recipes. Salt. Vinegar. Alum. Dill. Sugar. Cucumbers. Jars. Hours. Days. Weeks. Months. Adherence to the quality, simplicity, and process. How many …
When I was a doctoral student, my mentor gave a group of us this advice. We were about to give conference presentations at a predominantly masculinized event and felt the pressure of academic conformity looming. “Be who you are” she told us. Wherever you are. Be who you are. I’ve taken this advice to heart …
