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Read more: Sexism is a clear challenge“Sexism still exerts a pull on our lives and our choices,” says Hillary Rodham Clinton. “It is a very subtle but clear challenge that has…
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Read more: Her first spacewalk“All six of us in that first batch of women felt a self-imposed pressure,” says Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space.…
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Read more: Edit oftenI found these words displayed on the wall of Forest Meadow Junior High, where I go once a week to volunteer. “Your life is your…
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Read more: The glass ceiling“She broke the glass ceiling,” writes Nancy Gibbs in the September 18, 2017, issue of Time magazine. “What a jagged image we use for women…
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Read more: The one who contributes nothingRemember the middle-school project? In her book Short Stories by Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine talks about the middle-school student who doesn’t do his–or it could be…
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Read more: The Three TsDana Suskind lists the three Ts for interacting with a child in her book Thirty Million Words—tune in, talk more and take turns. I think…
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Read more: Women’s workMechtilde of Hackeborn, born in 1240, entered the cloistered world when she was only seven. When she grew older, she taught children at the convent…
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Read more: A woman mechanic in IraqShadi Mohammed is an extraordinary mechanic in an ordinary garage in Sulaimani, Iraq. “I want to change the perception of society toward women and toward…
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Read more: Be radical!?“A radical is a man (or a woman) with both feet firmly planted in the air,” President Franklin Roosevelt once said.
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Read more: Let goYou can’t control everything—although I often try to. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the…