“My generation, really sadly, is not going to change the numbers at the top. They are just not moving. We are 50% of the population, in my generation there will not be 50% of women at the top of any industry,” said Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg at TEDWomen. I felt a kind of cold chill hearing that. Sandberg [...]
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“I do think there is an awakening happening among women,” Marianne Schnall, founder of feminist.com, said to me, “and it needs help and we need to support each other. We have so many choices now but if we don’t know who we are then we won’t know how to make those choices count.” I agree [...]
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Fourteen years ago, I was forty years old, had recently received my doctorate from Harvard where I’d worked with Carol Gilligan in a small research collective that was charting new developmental pathways for girls and women, and had co-authored a bestselling book about how to transform the mother-daughter relationship in the hopes that the next generations of women [...]
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From UN Millennium Development Goals to an exploration of Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy and a call for integral education to start informing our higher education systems to new visions for women of faith, the Parliament themes bombard participants at all kinds of different levels and dimensions of the mind, psyche, and self. The session on the [...]
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Both perennial spiritual questions. In 2007 several of my spiritual sisters and myself, committed to pioneering a new stage in culture, wanting to create a new ground between us as women and a true partnership with men, sat down one day and created this (wo)manifesto (read Elizabeth Debold’s blog) below…The Ten Challenges of a Liberated [...]
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Women have always been powerful in their roles in society. Just recently, I saw this inspiring post about women in China who are fighting for the rights of their tribe, the Uiguren, and even risk their lives to do so. http://www.zeit.de/online/2009/28/bg-uiguren (It’s in German, my native language, but I think you must have seen this pictures [...]
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“Women’s creations sank soundlessly into the sea, leaving barely a ripple, and succeeding generations of women were left to cover the same ground others had already covered before them.” …Although late at night these words leapt from the page, shattering the comfortable lull of descending sleep. This disquieting observation by Gerda Lerner, Professor of History, [...]
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This is a manifesto, or you could call it a manifesta, or, better yet, a (wo)manifesto for all women who want to shoulder the responsibility to evolve culture and consciousness. Who sense the possibility of a new way of living, free of the roles and limitations that have held us in ways of being that [...]
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