We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women ...to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators nee...d to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception o...f the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a suc...cessful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, a...dventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »