How could this have happened?  No one spoke up!  The election was basically ignored, allowing a less than 400-person vote, to decide a financial move that smashed the city budget.  But where were the voices from the city employees who watched this happen?  Why did they not holler to their neighbors, to the press, to whomever would listen about this maneuver? Of course, it also shows how the public must take every election seriously rather than for granted. But I am stunned by the deafening silence that surrounded these three greedy officials.  Leadership requires courage. It appears that there were no leaders in any other part of that city.

This August marks the 90th anniversary of  U.S. women getting the right to vote. By getting that vote, women could begin to really shape the world. When you read the story of how  suffragettes were beaten, jailed, and even tortured by police who thought women should NEVER have the vote– you realize the price that was paid for the precious freedom to cast a ballot… to allow our voices to be heard.

How dare anyone– particularly a woman–  run for public office who didn’t even registered to vote until the age of 46. I live in California. It matters not the political party. What matters is the nonchalant dismissal of voting.  To me, it makes my voice even more significant. You can check out the candidates for yourself.

Based on the Dr. Reynold’s doctoral research and decades of coaching smart, strong women, Wander Woman identified a growing number of women who are constantly searching for “something more” in their lives. Although these women are confident in their abilities and continue to stack up the accomplishments, at the end of the day they are discontented, disappointed and exhausted.

First, Reynolds defines the societal factors that led to the drive and restlessness these women experience. Then she defines the dark side of women raised to excel—in their constant search for the next great thing, they lose a sense of who they are and what their purpose is beyond their accomplishments and praise.

Once the reader can clearly identify her challenges, the bulk of the chapters in Wander Woman provide practical exercises, powerful questions and case studies to help the reader channel her restless energy into a more fulfilling path. In the end, the reader will release her “burden of greatness” and be free to choose her own life rules and direction.

For new dads, the study underscores a shift. They do not equate being a good father with the role of “the breadwinner,” but with “being there, being present, spending time and being accessible.”

In small but significant way, PAMPERS has started advertising its diapers to fathers, hosting a “Daddy Play Date” in Manhattan with celebrity fathers like the singer Joel Madden and the actor Gilles Marini and about 100 guests, who played carnival games with their toddlers. According to an invitation, “the event was to pay homage to dads on diaper duty.”

Now if we can get the Equal Pay Act to live up to its name, equity will hit home and office front.

Sally went into space one more time in 1984 and became a member of the presidential commission looking into the Challenger Explosion.  The Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control offered Sally a fellowship and she left NASA in 1987.  Sally founded Sally Ride Science™ in 2001 to support girls’ and boys’ interests in science, math and technology.

“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
—Susan B. Anthony

“We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”
—Geraldine Ferraro

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
—Janis Joplin

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”
— Martina Navratilova

“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
—Princess Diana

Molly continued her interest in woman’s rights when her family moved to Denver, Colorado in 1894.  She became an early student at the Carnegie Institute in New York.  She and her husband had two children and quietly separated in 1909.  Molly enjoyed traveling and was one of the first women in the U.S. to run for a political office.  She ran for a Senate seat twice but did not win.  She went on to help develop the first court for juvenile matters and remained active in her activism pursuits.

Molly was traveling when she heard that one of her grandchildren was very ill.  She purchased a ticket on the RMS Titanic and boarded in France.  Molly became famous after her life saving efforts when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912.  She helped others get in the lifeboats and only boarded one herself at the last possible minute.  She talked the people in her lifeboat to turn back to look for survivors.  This she got her name “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”.  Molly used her status as the hero of the Titanic to increase her activism activities in woman’s rights and literacy for children among others.

In the last years of her life Molly became an actress.  She was estranged from her children and died in 1932 from a brain tumor.