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Making the Most of a New Year: College Admissions Advice for 9th and 10th Grade Students
The start of a new year is the perfect time for ninth and tenth grade students to embark on their college admissions process with energy and enthusiasm. In fact, decisions taken by ninth and tenth grade students over the coming weeks will shape their future in a big way, which is why I’m happy to…
Teen Talk
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Help for Busy Moms Overcoming Career Challenges
We are excited to welcome our new contributor, Allison Brecher, to our revamped Career section. Allison is a Senior Litigation Counsel at Marsh & McLennan Companies, a Fortune 200 financial services company based in New York with operations in more than 100 countries. She’s a superwoman - - she handles a busy case docket, writes books…
Quick, Hide The Knives
Two articles in the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly describe new research that unearths the phenomena of womens so-called indirect aggression.Unfortunately, the findings are described in distinctly negative terms. The Evolution of Bitchiness, is the Atlantics title.A Cold War Fought by Women is the slightly less derogatory title chosen by the Times.These august publications are two of the oldest, WASPiest, Harvard-est publications in the nation, devoured by our …
The Pitfalls Of Teaching Our Daughters To Be “Nice”
In one short, 12-day span, The New York Times published two articles that serves as feminist bookends, of a sort, regarding the pitfalls facing women when we try to be too darn nice.