Urge a Vote for Violence Against Women Act

November 27, 2012

Print This PostYesterday, I wrote a post on Domestic Violence Goes to Work that was based on a White Paper from Soroptimist International.  After that post, an e-mail on a related topic arrived from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), an association that is breaking barriers for women and girls. AAUW is very active [...]

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Domestic Violence Goes to Work

November 26, 2012

Print This Post“Ellen works for a small shipping company in the western Canada city of Vancouver.  She has been unhappily married to Paul for more than 20 years, and she and her two daughters bear the brunt of Paul’s verbal taunts and controlling behavior.  Though he has never physically abused the children, he often beats [...]

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Thanksgiving is THANKS giving

November 19, 2012

Print This PostWhen I was watching the news on TV this morning, I saw a segment about a woman who was already camped outside Best Buy.  She wanted to be first in line so that she could dash in the store when it opened after Thanksgiving ended at 12:00 a.m. or the start of Black [...]

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Buying Politicians vs. Real Politicians

November 8, 2012

Print This PostIf it was up to me, I’d limit the presidential or any campaign period to one month to save money.  It would also put pressure to find the real politicians who understand effective leadership of constituencies and not politicians bought by ‘megadonors’.  And since our planet is experiencing global warming, a month of [...]

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One of 90,000,000

November 6, 2012

Print This PostMy completed ballot was #5 this morning.  A little before 7:00 a.m., I walked to the polling place to be one of the first in line to cast my preferences for an array of leaders.  My vote was not just for a president but a U.S. senator and local politicians plus California propositions. [...]

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Voting for the Big Picture

November 5, 2012

Print This PostIn November 2008, I was determined to write-in Hillary Clinton as my choice to be president of the United States.  Although there were many female heads of states and outstanding leaders in global countries, there was no spot on the ballot for Clinton’s name.  To me, it was time for a woman to [...]

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Halloween is a Day to Pretend

October 31, 2012

Print This PostHalloween is a day for wearing masks and costumes that transform you into someone you aren’t but maybe want to be.  If you camouflage your real persona, you can pretend who you are and assume the behavior of a famous person like an actor or politician, if only for an evening. A few [...]

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Real Leadership in an Emergency

October 30, 2012

Print This Post“I am fine.  My building and immediate neighborhood is in great shape,” a friend who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan wrote in a text message to me early this morning.  Yesterday I had sent e-mails to friends, colleagues, former students, and family who lived in the tract of tropical-storm Sandy [...]

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Customer Service Agent

October 29, 2012

Print This PostI am tired of receiving e-mails asking me to fill out a survey or using the letters on my cellphone’s number pad to rank the ratings of customer service agents at the end of a conversation.  Since I relocated recently, I needed to bring in needed services to my home — all from [...]

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Career Intelligence

October 25, 2012

Print This PostYour career is my business.  And part of that business is sharing information with you about aspects of your career, or put another way, pointing you to where you can gain career intelligence. Yesterday when I was reading Crain’s New York Business, I saw this:  “$8,275 The gap in median pay between full-time working [...]

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