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Why Don’t Moms Negotiate Better?

I’m often demoralized to overhear this criticism about working women: we don’t negotiate. People who deliver this judgment, in my experience, tend to be human beings with limited experience being female: accomplished men in white collar, managerial positions, who shrug off women’s lack of negotiating skills as if absolutely anyone with self-esteem is born knowing…

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Madam President Does Not Tweet Naked Photos

When I was ten, my best friends mom was the smartest woman I knew. She was a 49 spitfire from New York City who wore a great deal of black along with a sophisticated perfume never before sniffed in my staid DC hometown. As a young woman, shed been one of the early Peace Corps volunteers in Africa, and then written a best-selling memoir about the experience.