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• But a Boob Job IS an Investment

  Posted Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:57 PM By Rosa Brooks
  
  In his " Human Nature " blog, Slate 's Will Saletan rejoices over the recession's toll on the cosmetic surgery business and expresses horror at the idea that some suckers (social parasites?) still refinance their homes to get cosmetic surgery during economic Read More...
  Filed under: women, health care, parenting, children, work, workplace equity, plastic surgery, Botox

• Dispatch from the Mommy Wars

  Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 9:56 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Mom who works at home: Bill will be picking up the girls today . Non-salaried mom: Why, are you out of town ? M: No, just on deadline . N: Well that's awfully nice of him. I hate for him to have to do that . M: It's not nice; he's their dad . N: But, Read More...
  Filed under: parenting, family, marriage, work

• Obama's Sexist Dog Whistle

  Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 2:07 PM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Barack Obama brought up Hillary Clinton's period ! "I understand that Senator Clinton periodically ,'' (See? He said it!) "when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal." Clearly, he was saying his rival ought to look Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, women, feminism, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, gender issues, '08 election, stereotype threat, gender stereotype, work

• More Time With the Family or in Timeout With the Family?

  Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:41 PM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  A report in the Wall Street Journal today about the departure last weekend of former Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle offers up this explanation for the departure: Ms. Solis Doyle recently returned home after two months on the road to find a Read More...
  Filed under: women, work, Patti Solis Doyle

• "Babies" Having Babies

  Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:10 PM By Rachael Larimore
  
  Wow, Dahlia , thanks for sharing that story on "young" parents in the WaPo . I'm not quite sure I get the point of the article, but it leaves me with a million random thoughts. First off, it puts to rest the notion that only women write puff pieces . Read More...
  Filed under: parenting, education, work, women

• From the Department of Decrepit Parentage

  Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:11 PM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  Did anyone else find the Washington Post ’s front page story today about “young” college-educated parents just surreal? (Disclosure: They own us.) First off, all these extremely young parents who are not hanging out in bars or brunching with their buddies Read More...
  Filed under: women, parenting, education, work

• Hillary's Girls Pass the Kleenex and Save the Day

  Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:20 AM By Melinda Henneberger
  
  Back when that book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten came out, I thought about how everything I needed to know I learned in my 92 years of dating. And as it turns out, those lessons hold up pretty well in political life, too, in that Read More...
  Filed under: Barack Obama, women, Hillary Clinton, Democrats, primaries, debates, '08 election, Bill Clinton, work

• Workplace Dynamics

  Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 1:14 PM By Ann Hulbert
  
  Don't miss our books round-up (how's that for an inside plug?), which has convinced me to spend my winter vacation week reading about, what else, work. Like Michelle Tsai, who along with Torie Bosch recommends Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End , Read More...
  Filed under: books, work

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