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Growing up, I was taught that creativity was a highly prized commodity. My father was a product engineer for International Harvester, designing plows and farm equipment, and earned 22 patents. When he retired from that, he and his brother designed a nifty cable-laying machine that laid wires in the ground…

Ever walk into a room where people were arguing and suddenly find that you are getting tense? Did you know that the baby of a stressed mother could be in danger of rising blood pressure? A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the…

I had never heard of the word “childism” before reading Claudia M. Gold’s review of the book Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children by the late author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Young-Breuhl, an analyst, political theorist and biographer, calls attention to the way human rights of children are threatened in America today. Childism…

At the time, I was living in Pennsylvania and my friend recommended it to me. At first I thought it would be difficult because I had tried meditating in a yoga class. But then she said that what she was doing was quite easy and that is how I decided…

In January of 2009 both my parents were diagnosed with “dementia of the Alzheimer’s kind” on the same day. I was expecting such a diagnosis for my mother, who was suffering from short-term memory loss (and who had a history of Alzheimer’s in the family). But the diagnosis for my…

Emily Dickenson. Helen Keller. Emily Bronte. Clare Boothe Luce. Billie Jean King. What do these women have in common? You might say fame, or talent or creativity, and that is true. But what underlies all of their achievements—the one thread that they all have in common?

The mission of The Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues of the State Department, headed by Ambassador Catherine M. Russell, seeks to ensure that women’s issues are completely integrated in structuring and conducting U.S. foreign policy. That office promotes stability, peace, and development by empowering women politically, socially, and economically…

Unity Consciousness—Fulfillment of our Yearning for Happiness, Love, and Meaning “I was out walking in the early morning. All of a sudden I felt very uplifted, more uplifted than I had ever been. I remember I knew timelessness and spacelessness and lightness. I did not seem to be walking on…

There may be many advantages available to the lives of women in the United States compared to women’s lifestyles in many foreign nations, but in the USA there continues to be a disparity between men and women when considering quality of life and its relationship to empowerment. From a century…

As women take on more responsibility in the workplace while continuing as the primary caregiver for their children and in many cases, their aging parents as well, stress levels in women are on the rise. In fact, according to the American Psychological Association (APA), almost half of all women (49…