Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to limit access to contraception and legal abortion, they are relegating women to another century, a time when men ruled exclusively and women were considered property and had to be guided by a firm masculine hand.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.