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Women, Girls and the Cost of Being Female

A recent study by the McKinsey Global Institute offered a startling calculation: the world can gain $12 trillion by 2025 simply by empowering women and achieving gender parity in the work place and our homes. This is big news for international leaders, multinational corporations, banking conglomerates – and moms and daughters everywhere. “The Power of…

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Worst First Dates

Whether it’s from online dating, a blind date or a set-up of the brother of a co-worker, first dates stink! There’s really no other way to say it. You get yourself all put together; showered, hair done, nails done, cute outfit only to at best be disappointed. But if that’s the worst thing you get…

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Rethinking Family Vacations

“Vacation is just me washing dishes and doing laundry in a different place,” my mom used to joke to the four of us kids during summer vacations. We took a lot of family trips. My mother was a teacher, so she had the summers free from her paid job; she drove us 10 hours from…