Category Archives: Women at Work

Do Women Really Want to Be Perfect? Another Voice Heard!

By Linda | September 3, 2013

Debora Spar, the president of Barnard, the elite woman’s college across the street from Columbia University in NYC has a new book. The basic premise is that women cannot “have it all” because in their struggle for power they got stuck in “an endless quest for perfection.”
Stunned, we are unable to make all the choices! [...]

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Women’s Equality Day Is Here Again. Where Are You?

By Linda | August 26, 2013

Today is Women’s Equality Day. Again. You forgot? Never knew? Join the crowd. Why this day? The end of summer? Women’s suffrage. Passage of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution. And what have we done with that vote?
Not to be forgotten, Congresswoman Bella Abzug sponsored legislation in 1971 giving our president [...]

Also posted in Adventures in Advocacy | Tagged gender equity, women's rights | 2 Comments

Will the Real Feminist and Champion of Women’s Rights Please Stand Up? Part 3 of 3.

By Linda | March 21, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, writes a book and creates a program encouraging women in business to Lean In, to take risks, to move their careers by overcoming their own internalization of gender stereotypes that keep us down. Heavy press follows, and with it an (un)fair share of criticism. Jody Greenstone Miller, in the Wall [...]

Also posted in Adventures in Advocacy | Tagged Face book, Feminism, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, women's rights, Yahoo | 4 Comments

Will The Real Feminist and Champion of Women’s Rights Please Stand Up? Part 2 of 3

By Linda | March 20, 2013

Yesterday we highlighted Sheryl Sandberg’s feminist niche–creating women leaders to change the workplace. In reaction to the media blitz for her book, another point of view was heard from Wall Street Journal columnist and business entrepreneur, Jody Greenstone Miller, President of her own Business Talent Group. She believes that women need more of the right [...]

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Will the Real Feminist and Champion of Women in the Workplace Please Stand Up? Part 1 of 3

By Linda | March 19, 2013

In the past month, three prominent and powerful super-achieving women have gone on record with their secrets for success. Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook put forward her Lean-In program designed to re-design a woman’s approach to her work. In rapid and critical response, Jodie Greenstone Miller offered her cure for what ails women—more time. And [...]

Also posted in Accidental Crusader | Tagged Feminism, Jody Greenstone Miller, Lean In, Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Women and Leadership | Leave a comment

“The Mommy MD Guides” and Other Books I Wish I Had Written

By Linda | March 14, 2013

Almost 5 years and 453 posts ago, I started The Brodsky Blog. I was told I had to build an audience for “my book.” Since then I have written enough to fill a book, but it isn’t the book I started to write about–my experience suing two powerful organizations for gender discrimination and the fall [...]

Also posted in Telling Stories, Uncategorized, Worthy Causes | Tagged authors, Mommy MD Guides, Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing, Women entrepreneurs | Leave a comment

Artist Ellen Steinfeld Is a One Woman Show at the Burchfield Penny Art Gallery–Not to be Missed

By Linda | February 6, 2013

Suspended Motion: Sculptures and Watercolors by Ellen Steinfeld
This coming Friday, February 8, 5:30-7:30 pm it’s happening at the Burchfield Penny Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY. Artist Ellen Steinfeld will exhibit her work–the first time they have ever had a single artist show. Ellen is an incredibly versatile artist; and this exhibit promises to show off [...]

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Do Women Professionals Prefer Women Doctors? A Linked-In Perspective

By Linda | December 12, 2012

Linked-In is a business networking site, the way face book is a social networking site. Frankly, I haven’t yet figured out how Linked-In works exactly. But somehow, I found myself in a group called Professional Women’s Network.
I am never quite sure if professional women includes women doctors. I was a member of the National Association [...]

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Flexing the Mommy Muscles–How Many Roles Do Women Need to Play at One Time to Be Taken Seriously?

By Linda | September 14, 2012

Yesterday, in the Huff Po, Joanne Bamberger bemoans “the political cult of Mom” which she found not unexpected in Tampa but found pretty surprising in Charlotte. How open minded of her. She reports that Ann Romney, who never worked a day in her life raising 5 children while battling multiple sclerosis and supporting her husband’s [...]

Also posted in On the Job | Tagged Mommy Cult, Mommy Muscles | 4 Comments

Response to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic Article: “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All”

By Linda | July 5, 2012

Wise Women Can and Do Have It All. Professor Slaughter, You Missed the Boat on Feminism—You Had Too Much
Background:
The Atlantic Magazine’s feature article this month was hailed by some women as a long needed revelation, almost a soul bearing confession, one that freed them from the bondage of too many choices. This sensationalist account of [...]

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