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“If you have abandoned yourself in the effort to keep anyone or anything else, unlearn that pattern. Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return home.” Martha Beck  
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Lean Out – 50 Ways to Shift Corporate Culture so Women can Reach the Top

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Here is the proposal for my new book I am writing. I am searching for a great publisher. Pass it along!  Lean Out – 100 Ways to Shift Corporate Culture  So Women Can Reach the Top by Maureen Fitzgerald, PhD (former policy lawyer) (copyright)   “Leaning In” is not enough  In her recent best-selling book “Lean In”

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The most amazing words ever are by bell hooks

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If you read nothing else this year, read these words by bell hooks on forgiveness and Trayvon Martin. Here is an excerpt: “The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety…. The person who is really the threat here is the home owner who has been

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If men did more housework the world would be amazing

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I think that one key women’s freedom is to have men take home and child care seriously and carry half the responsibility (or more). We would respect women’s contributions more, we would create more humane workplaces and we would free women to do earn money, do more of what they love and help women not feel like slaves (with no pay) to their homes. Here is

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Please admit that women’s anxiety is caused by cultural pressures

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Thanks Emma Gray for a great article. Here is a quote where she speaks of the research on women and mental illness: “As Freeman and Freeman wrote in their op-ed: “Considering that on the whole women are paid less, find it harder to advance in a career, have to juggle multiple roles, and are bombarded

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Lean In could leverage its power to make lasting policy changes

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I wish I had said it first: “Lean In” should leverage the movement to bring in policies that support women like paid maternity and paternity leave, affordable childcare, paid sick days and flexible and part-time work hours. Thanks to Yaron Schwartz for writing a great article and mentioning Madeleine Kunin’s book, The New Feminist Agenda. Here is an excerpt;

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