NEW BOOK BY HOST OF
 ”FEISTY SIDE OF FIFTY”
By Mary Eileen Williams, M.A., NCC

If you’re over fifty and looking for work, you probably have a slew of preconceived notions about how bad the job market is for older applicants. You are also likely to have a number of concerns and questions that need to be addressed.
In the course of my twenty years of experience as a career counselor and job search specialist, I’ve counseled thousands of midlife career changers and jobseekers and—believe me—I’ve heard it all. Here are a few …

Susan Dworkin’s Riveting Story of a Scientist’s Struggle to Preserve the World’s Harvest
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. At my house, twenty-two people gathered and brought their favorite foods to our table. But, who made sure that there would be food for the table?
His name is not household word, but it should be. Dr. Bent Skovmand, a brilliant Danish scientist (the ‘Viking’), had a lot to do with putting food on all our tables because he dedicated himself to protecting the seeds of the world’s food supply. Dr. Skovmand’s story …

Ann Higdon
MEET ANN HIGDON
2009 PURPOSE PRIZE WINNER
“The Purpose Prize gathering is revolutionary,” said Ellen Goodman the newspaper columnist and herself, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize. “I am looking at you as my mentors,” she told the audience in her keynote address at the recent Purpose Prize Summit.
I have to agree. It was a room filled with inspiring people and stories.
I met Ann Higdon, winner of a 2009 Purpose Prize ($50,000.) and was impressed by her strength, warmth, and humor. Ann is the fist to admit that in high school …

A Take-Off on the Classic “Do You Know Me?” American Express Ad
By Mary Thom – editor, author and consultant for
The Women’s Media Center
In 1983, Bella Abzug, the former Congresswoman from New York, was a featured speaker at the first National Forum for Women State Legislators held by The Center for American Women in Politics. The gathering of 350 representatives from 46 states at the historic Hotel Del Coronado near San Diego was the largest number of elected women ever assembled in one place, according to former chair of the …

Marcy Adelman: 2009 Purpose Prize Winner
BRINGING EXPERIENCE TO SOCIAL INNOVATION CHANGES EVERYTHING
In a culture that often seems to thrive more on “creating” villains than honoring heroes, it is especially rewarding to report on people who are changing the world. THE PURPOSE PRIZE – announced by Encore Careers and Civic Ventures – celebrates and honors people over 60 who are bringing experience to social innovation (read the press release).
I was proud to have been a judge for this Award, and I can tell you the candidates and winners are a …

You’re going to be seeing a multimedia blitz about a new national study of women’s status called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything. Gloria Steinem gives you a preview of this project created by Maria Shriver and a D.C. think tank, and suggests ways you can use it and also judge its success.
For the first time in the history of the United States, half of all people on payrolls are women. This big landmark is the centerpiece of The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything, a newly …

Good Natured Hysteria – Shaken and Stirred with Hilarity and Honesty!
Some of the best laughs I have experienced in the last decade have been with my girlfriends about the absurd things that are happening to our bodies and our minds. We are laughing at the absurdity of it all, and we are laughing with each other. That is how we surmount the inevitable. But there is a genre of post-menopause support books that does just the opposite – the jokes are about self-contempt and the laughter is about humiliation. …

The Women’s Media Center Exclusive Provides Answers
 
Like many of you, I am sure, I kept wondering as I read about the American journalists who were arrested by North Korea, tried, sentenced and finally released, what prompted these two women to leave their families (especially a young child) to venture to the Korean peninsula to follow a story. What was the story they were pursuing?
In all the coverage of their chilling circumstances I found no answer to that question. Until this week when I read the dramatic, detailed, and well …

DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEAR OR WELCOME CHANGE?

Second Adulthood is all about change. It’s about a restlessness that creates a non-specific “itch” to make changes. Life in the Fertile Void, as I call this period, may feel like a free fall; it is alternately exhilarating and terrifying.
The changes you choose to make may not be as dramatic as parachuting out of a plane or as operatic as running off with the cable guy, but they will probably feel as momentous. Though some women are overcome with …

5 Organizations that Support Fathers & Families

In 2000, my book “Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First” was published. It was the result of my exploration into the uncharted territory of “shared parenting.”
There were pioneers everywhere, but they were few and far between. As I wrote then,
“My first clue was the backpacks…Like the moms and baby-sitters trudging by, they seemed blissfully oblivious to giant rabbit or Mickey Mouse ears rising from behind their own. These were dads who knew–knew their own kids in that …