Women's Issues
He kept us waiting while the other guests drifted out into the summer night, and then sat us down at his authentically grainy wood table and said to me, “So? I hear you’ve written a couple of books.”
I replied, “Several, actually.”
He said, in the way you encourage your friend’s seven-year-old to describe flute practice, “And what are they about?”
The
... See moreWhen we are stressed out, we tend to clench parts or all of our bodies, constricting the natural flow of qi until it stagnates, leading to tissue, organ, or system disorders. In my experience, stress is at the root of most of women’s health concerns. It sets off hormonal imbalance and causes qi to stagnate, conditions which can lead to everything f
... See moreClaudia Welch • Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science
One study found that people who bragged openly27 (“I’m the life of the party”) were actually more likable than those who made self-deprecating claims
Jessica Bennett • Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
“Women in the Executive Suite Correlate to High Profits.”)
Katherine Kay • Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better
seem nice enough. If a woman seems really nice, she is considered more nice than competent. Since people want to hire and promote those who are both competent and nice, this creates a huge stumbling block for women. Acting in stereotypically feminine ways makes it difficult to reach for the same opportunities as men, but defying expectations and re
... See moreSheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Women create shadow hierarchies while pretending to want equality
Claim: Competent women should be rewarded based on ability
Reality: Women who shine too brightly must be taken down a notch
Claim: Beauty standards are oppressive and we want equality
Reality: Deny differences in beauty while creating hierarchies based on it
Claim: Women should live their
... See moreMany mothers look for part-time and flexible work so that they can manage all of this extra unpaid work, but only 10 per cent of jobs are advertised as part-time, with just 1 in 4 jobs specifying any type of flexible working,9 so many women are forced to work in jobs that are well below their skill level. On top of this, part-time work is paid at a
... See moreJoeli Brearley • The Motherhood Penalty: How to stop motherhood being the kiss of death for your career
For most women between the ages of approximately ten years old to around fifty years old, our nature is cyclic. However, we are raised with the expectation of living and working and behaving like men. We are taught, unrealistically, to expect that the things that fulfil men and meet their needs will also make us happy and contented – and when we fa
... See moreMiranda Gray • Female Energy Awakening
a woman’s mental health postmenopause is usually better than it’s been at any other time in the life of that particular woman, other than maybe childhood.” What. “Is that really true? Is it because our periods stop?” “Mm, it’s more that we aren’t cycling anymore between estrogen and progesterone and FSH. And, of course, in a patriarchy your body is
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