As my play, “Woman on the Scarlet Beast,” goes public, there’s another role my director is about to assume: becoming a mother.  If the baby reads the calendar, it should arrive soon after the play ends.  I’m hoping it is a well-behaved child and won’t arrive before it is s

Recently, a reader shared an article with me by Gail Collins from the New York Times. (Click)  Collins was ranting about the plight of working women who are pregnant.  In one case, a female employee working at Wal-Mart’s was fired for carrying a bottle of water on the job in an ef

Some people may not know that Margaret Sanger, champion of a woman’s right to choose in the early 20th century, was opposed to abortion.  She felt the procedure too much endangered the life of the woman so she promoted contraception instead. (“Women Before Fetuses” by Rebecca T

“It’s no surprise some cynical observers have concluded that the glass ceiling has been replaced by a ‘glass cliff.”  So writes Alan Murray, managing Editor of Fortune Magazine, as he notes that in the corporate world, women have faced a ”hyper-Darwinian struggle” to reac

I’ve long been a fan of writer, Edith Wharton, so when I came across  a reprint of her essay, first published in March 1938, naturally I stopped to read it.  In the course of her remarks, she made a number of observations, some of which were curious.  What, for example, did she m

What was touted as a debate, turned out to be a love-in as Judith Shulevitz and Rebecca Traister reviewed the gains and losses of the feminist movement. (We Are All Feminists Now,” by Judith Schulevitz and Rebecca Traister, New Republic, 9/28/14 pgs 14-23.)  While the goal of total

Near the end of my last term in public office, my secretary left for California and I had to replace her.  Rather than do a long search for a job that would last less than a year, I hired an independent contractor. After that, I turned my attention to the task of winding down the off

In the early 1970s, I worked hard to pass an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that would grant women equal protection under the law.  The movement didn’t succeed and today, many of my sex feel such a law is unnecessary.  Happily a few have begun to rethink the question and to reevalua

Tonight is Halloween so it’s time for a scary tale. But this one isn’t about ghosts and goblins.  It’s a tale far more horrible.  It’s about a feminine myth that has kept women from reaching their full potential.   We start with Hysteria, the Greek word for muse.  Literal

Each year when the time comes to renew my subscription to More Magazine, I equivocate.  At 78, I’m too old to care about mascara that will make my eyelashes grow.  I have naked, Mona Lisa eyes.  I don’t mind.  I no longer wish to paint a face “to meet the faces I shall meet.