The CWCW Blog

ALTHOUGH HILLARY CLINTON may not have broken that glass ceiling in November, we nevertheless are seeing a surge in women of a certain age breaking new boundaries and shattering records. However, politics and culture don’t always follow the same trajectory.  Pop music singers, Broadway divas and Hollywood’s finest actresses are defying long [...]

I PROUDLY ADMIT it. I’m a Georgia O’Keefe groupie. I just can’t get enough of this iconic artist. I’ve seen countless exhibits, visited the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe and her Ghost Ranch and Abiqui homes. In fact, my daughter-in-law presented me with a beautiful 256 page, comprehensive, coffee table book, [...]

Editor’s Note: The American Geophysical Union (AGU) will be sharing reflections on the March for Science from AGU leaders. This is part two of three. Click here for part one and part three.   AS I STEPPED onto the train to Washington, D.C., I immediately sensed a palpable science vibe throughout the train.  In the café car, the tables were [...]

WE’VE ALL BEEN there when Google Maps goes horribly wrong. We’re on our way out to dinner when it tells us to turn onto a ramp that doesn’t exist. Or we’re frantically trying to find an alternative route around the parking lot that is the highway when our GPS has us make a U-turn, on a one-way street, going the wrong way. Occasionally, [...]

IS FASHION ART? The perennial question. Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has said, “I find it extraordinary […] that in this day and age people are still debating it.” Another colleague said to me, “How can you, of all people, question whether fashion is art?”—as though I were casting [...]

IN 1987, Congress declared March National Women’s History Month. Every year, for the past 30 years, a special Presidential proclamation is issued to honor the extraordinary achievements and contributions of women in history and contemporary society. Every week, for nearly the past four years, Sandi Klein’s Conversations with [...]

IT’S LATE, I know, with the Oscars moments away, but I have some last minute thoughts I need to share about some of this year’s Oscar nominations. Full disclosure, there are plot spoilers ahead. First off, I thought Best Actor Nominee Casey Affleck’s character, Lee Chandler, in Best Picture Nominee Manchester by the Sea was a petulant [...]

“ARE YOU READY?” “Yeah, let’s do this.” My best friend and I boarded a bus at 5 am on Saturday morning bound for Washington, D.C. It was filled with many tired women, tired because it was 5 am and because the day before a man who stands for misogyny, bigotry, hatred, and greed was named the 45th President of the United States. We all slept [...]

ANXIETY IS THE most common psychological condition, but the great news is that it is also the most effectively treated. The cause and cure for anxiety are: the brain (an organ in our body) and the mind (the thoughts we can control). Below are three tips that can help us grow through our fears. 1. Facilitate Optimism. Our fear level is [...]

I believe in the story of Wonder Woman. I always have. Not the literal baby being made from clay story, but the metaphorical one. I believe in a story where a woman is the hero and not the victim. I believe in a story where a woman is strong and not weak, where a woman can fall in love with a man, but she doesn’t need a man, where a woman can [...]