Posts Tagged ‘women’
At the Water Cooler: What Would You do if You Weren’t Afraid?
In her newest book, “Lean In,” Sheryl Sandberg asks her readers a question that inspired us here at Spike the Water Cooler. What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Sandberg says that if she weren’t af...
Wisdom from Condi Rice: If you don’t speak up, you’re going to get pushed down
In this extraordinary excerpt, Condoleezza Rice puts her thoughts onto paper in order to drive home an important point: women need to learn to speak up. We all know that voicing one’s opinion can be tough and that in orde...
A Push for Women in Technology
It’s no secret that women are vastly outnumbered by men in the technology sector. Only 20 percent of computer programmers are women. NPR recently published this exciting and inspiring tale of Sarah Allen, a computer progr...
Beauty is Not Skin Deep
Dove recently launched a campaign targeted toward women. It’s purpose is to show women how they physically see themselves, verses how others view them. It is a primal instinct to be curious about how you are perceived. It...
What Makes It Such a “Man’s World”?
Yesterday’s New York Times featured an article by Andrew Ross Sorkin about women who are top at their companies making it in a man’s world. The article sites Irene Dorner, chief executive of HSBC North America, sayi...
Photo of the Day: The Many Hats We Wear
Women especially are known for constantly wearing different hats: the working girl, powerful boss, loving mother, caring friend. It’s essential, however, that we remember what is important so that these hats don’t b...
Does Having a Baby Mean Getting Bumped?
A recent article in The Guardian explains a disturbing trend. One in seven women surveyed are being laid off after returning to their jobs from maternity leave. The ones who do come back to work often report a sense of alienati...
Celebrating Sisterhood in the Nation’s Capital
There is a lot to love in Washington, D.C. As a city, we are educated, well-read and generally high achieving. We care about the world, and believe that we can do something about it. Even more, we feel an obligation to do somet...
The Nu Project
The Nu Project is as interesting as it sounds. Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum has shot and collected photographs of naked women all around the country. But not just any photographs: real, authentic ones. According to this H...
Who RUNs the World? Girls.
To my fellow running ladies out there: imagine being told you could not compete in a race because you’re a girl. Sounds crazy right? But up until 1971 (yes that seemed shockingly recent for such regulations to me too), the Am...
