Sublime

This entire notion of “the perfect mom/wife/homemaker,” of the “nostalgic siren call for a return to Fifties-style homemaking,” is a considerable misunderstanding of what Martha Stewart actually transmits, the promise she makes her readers and viewers, which is that know-how in the house will translate to can-do outside it.

We find deep meaning in the act of serving.

“Women in the Executive Suite Correlate to High Profits.”)

As one of those women, Lois Carrier, told me, “Until a woman learns to value herself, she’s not going to be valued by an employer (or client).”

Because businesses with more women in senior positions make more money.

young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.

I know the one person in all of Hollywood whom Joan will not speak to is a woman. She’s a top studio executive. Joan would walk out of the room if she was there.” He did not say her name, but later told me it was Lucy Fisher.