This is my second blog on why WXN should NOT have titled its women’s conference “What Glass Ceiling.” This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: “Occupy Women- A radical vision for dealing with the glass ceiling and the sticky floor.” Part 1: You can’t see it because it’s glass “No doubt about it, the glass ceiling is alive and […]
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Here is why I am writing a book on raising girls in our highly sexualized society. This is my story. This book started about ten summers ago, on our family vacation. My wakeup call came on sunny peaceful afternoon dockside at the lake. My relaxing read was shattered by the ear piercing squeals of my
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Here is my updated summary of the book I am writing. I am almost done and looking for an amazing publisher. I am sure it will be a best seller! (in all modesty!) WHAT YOUR MOTHER DIDN’T TELL YOU: 150 STRATEGIES TO RAISING GIRLS IN OUR HIGHLY SEXUALIZED WORLD A BOOK IN THE WORKS (A QUICK SUMMARY)
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In his book The Omega Project, Kenneth Ring found that those who have had near death experiences show significant shifts in the following ways: Increase appreciation for life, greater self-acceptance; decrease in concern for impressing others, greater concern for others; decrease in materialism, increase for social and planetary issues, and increase in quest for meaning.
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My friend Cheryl just helped me understand why powerful women avoid feminists. Its quite simple. Cheryl was a feminist years ago and is now wealthy and powerful (enough). As she says (and I supplement), 1. We hate feeling powerless. We hate feeling that we need someone to rescue us. Women should stop complaining about the difficulties of working in a “mans world” and start sucking it up. Be
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Recent research shows that women are having more extra marital affairs these days. In fact wife affairs rose almost 40 percent in the last 20 years. Why? Although we like to think it has to do with sex drive this is not the case. According to Daniel Bergner author of, “What do Women Want?” women’s sex drives are
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I use the following the ten questions as the Table of Contents for my upcoming book, titled: 50 Ways to Advance Women.” I hope this book (that I am struggling to get done!) will become the “textbook” for the Lean In movement! Do humans really thrive in a 24/7 competitive culture? Are men really better workers and leaders than women?
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You must listen to this great mini-doc on CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2012/06/05/delusions-of-gender/ Cordelia Fine is the author of the book Delusions of Gender. I will have to go buy it now.
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I am going to buy the book, “Unworthy Creature: A Punjabi Daughters Memoir of Honour, Shame and Love” by Aruna Papp with Barbara Kay. It seems to capture the difficulty women face when other women are being burned and killed in the name of family honour. It is always difficult to question the culture and
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I see that Christie Blatchford and the National Post have published a book on the trial of the Shafia family. If you recall the father, mother and brother were all found guilty of murdering their two daughters and step mother. They pushed their car into a lake. I like the title of the book because its so true. Honour
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