In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

On the one hand, parents want their children to swim expertly in the digital stream that they will have to navigate all their lives; on the other hand, they fear that too much digital media, too early, will sink them.

Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing social order out of balance. That's exactly what's happened in South Korea, which is a highly patriarchal society. They started educating women, and then they were no longer the women that society wants them to be. That caused a real cultural crisis.

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.