“When women shoulder a disproportionate share of responsibility for housework, their perceptions of fairness and marital satisfaction decline, and…marital conflict and women’s depression increases.” ~ Leslie Bennetts,The Feminine Mistake Neither my husband nor I expected me to become an unpaid servant. He never expected me to do all the child-rearing as well as all the tedious […]
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I have had a lot of positive feedback on the launching of my three new books this week. I just got this email Hi Maureen! Congrats on these books! Couldn’t be more timely for me, since I am recently back to work after a 16 month maternity leave, and struggling through childcare issues and seeing
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This ad show how saying “you are pretty” and other harmful words hold our daughters back. Well worth the 30 seconds. How we hold girls back video
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Here are my top 7: Girl-Parenting Books by Maureen F. Fitzgerald, Phd (www.maureenfitzgerald.com) (November 2012) 1. Debold, Elizabeth, Marie Wilson and Idelisse Malave “Mother-Daughter Revolution-From good girls to great women. (NY: Bantam, 1993) 2. Deak, JoAnn “Girls will Be Girls-Raising confident and courageous daughters” (NY: Hyperion, 2002). 3. Elium, Jeanne & Don Elium. “Raising a
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