June 18, 2018

The way to help people relinquish victimhood isn’t to lecture them about it, but to help them find their personal power. And that starts when they’re ready to let go of their anger…

June 5, 2018

Women and men just don’t talk about these things—certainly not business colleagues at a networking lunch who don’t know each other terribly well…

June 5, 2018

Today, scores of female candidates compete in primaries across the country. Over the coming months, the winners will face biased, sexist, and unfair questions and criticisms that their male counterparts will not. It’s predictable. But their responses don’t have to be…

May 25, 2018

This morning, Harvey Weinstein surrendered to the NYPD. He's still denying the scores of accusations against him, but no one cares. We're way beyond that…

May 19, 2018

The cheers from women erupted immediately. Why? Because we have all had our "Maybe she's just confused" moments…

May 19, 2018

I received an email from my daughter's school about the recent tragedy at a Texas high school where yet another student went on a shooting rampage. The email referred to an attachment, which it noted was "the same one you received last time…”

April 23, 2018

A recent graduate of The Reckoning checked in with me a few weeks after the session to say, “Everything has changed! Just not in the way I thought it would…”

April 17, 2018

It's a common misconception--that to be powerful you have to overpower others…

March 29, 2018

As my seven-year-old daughter and I joined the March for our Lives rally this weekend, the full impact of the crowd hit her. It was a bit overwhelming, as she, like her mother, doesn't really like crowds. She gripped my hand tighter and forged on, head down…

March 29, 2018

Today Stephon Clark is being laid to rest, and we all mourn. Because all of our children are all of our children.

Fellow grownups, it's time to put an end to this nonsense…

February 28, 2018

It's almost too meta to bear: swimsuit models finding their voice by objectifying themselves with empowering words scrawled over their bodies…

February 26, 2018

These two women--with very different political views--have both declared that men who abuse or harass women should be held accountable. And they're saying to women, there's nothing political about standing up for your humanity…

February 23, 2018

Watch the video to see the difference…

February 2, 2018

She had started to think this had something to do with her gender, given that she was the only woman in the group. And she had never confronted him about it…

January 11, 2018

The backlash was inevitable. Someone was going to say that #MeToo had gone too far, is pitting women against men, is breaking down the fibers of society…

December 19, 2017

Feminists taught us that “the personal is political.” Now it’s time to understand that the political is personal. You can only fight another’s perceived power with your own personal power…

September 5, 2017

I was never a fan of Steve Jobs. Yes, he was the “cool” choice in the Apple-Microsoft battle to become Dominator-of-the-Whole-Entire-World, but I was a Bill Gates enthusiast, with all his nerdy, corporate plotting…

August 28, 2017

For women en masse to truly reject Option A, it could mean that mainstream women are finally taking the obligation to end sexism seriously—and into their own hands…

July 21, 2017

On this day my client was stressed. She was frustrated, and a little angry. As she described it, “There’s just no solution to being constantly punched in the face by deadlines…”