Monthly Archives: May 2010

A Room of Our Own—Breastfeeding and Moms Who Work Outside the Home

By Linda | May 27, 2010

Bend, Oregon is 175 miles south of Portland. Surrounded by the beauty of the pines and the silence of the desert, I am tapping out this post. If you read “On Being a Trophy Wife,” you would know why I am in Oregon at this past weekend. Yes, I am still enjoying the spoils of [...]

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Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan: Is Her Appointment Good for Women?

By Linda | May 26, 2010

I know very little about Elena Kagan save for the fact that she is a tenured professor and former Dean of Harvard Law School. I know that she has had no judicial (and for that fact little governmental) experience. She is an Obama appointee who is now Solicitor General of the US, representing the US [...]

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On being a trophy wife

By Linda | May 24, 2010

What image do you have when you hear the words “trophy wife”? Young, tall, beautiful, usually blond woman bedecked in diamonds and gold, smiling adoringly at her usually more mature (a/k/a older and graying if not visiting his colorist regularly) husband? The wife, with all of her strengths as a status symbol for [...]

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Missing Women’s Health Week

By Linda | May 18, 2010

Did you know this is woman’s health month? I didn’t.
Did you know this week past was women’s health week? I didn’t.
This past week and this merry month of May are marked on our calendar “to empower women to pay attention to their own health”. Items on the government generated checklist include getting [...]

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Woman of Valor: What’s a Woman’s Worth Anyway?

By Linda | May 13, 2010

A lot, especially if you are Lori Van Dusen and Associates, who have spent more than 2 decades advising clients about wealth accumulation (another way of saying “saving for a rainy day”). Since we are talking about more than $8 billion, you can understand what rankled the well-known firm of Smith Barney when, [...]

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What Kind of Feminist Are You?

By Linda | May 12, 2010

While driving home from work last week, I listened to an interview on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. The interview was with one of the leaders of the new feminists—“Radical Homemakers.” Shannon Hayes, described her flight from the halls of academia after she obtained her PhD. Women professors were scarce, she noted, [...]

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A Woman of Valor–Carrie Bergeron-Desai

By Linda | May 3, 2010

This weekend I had a choice. I could spend May 1, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada with my colleagues and friends at our spring meetings to discuss advances, issues, and controversies in otolaryngology. Or I could spend my weekend in Lancaster, New York (a non-descript suburb of Buffalo, a not very exciting city) [...]

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