On this season of “Skimm’d from the Couch,” meet the changemakers whose names you should know: Dara Treseder, Head of Global Marketing & Communications at Peloton Dr. Laura Forese, Chief Operating Officer of New York Presbyterian Hospital Kristen Welker, Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News and Co-Anchor of Weekend TODAY Alicia Garza, Principal at…
Read More Skimm’d from the CouchBy Fernanda Santos FEBRUARY 3, 2021 It’s exhausting to be a widow and single mother — and not just because of the responsibilities. For me, fatigue comes from having to constantly engage with complete strangers who don’t know what to make of a woman without a man. I’m sure that their comments and I’m-so-sorrys are well-intentioned.…
Read More I didn’t see the insidious ways women are held back — until I became a widowIt’s time to end the myth that working mothers “opt out” of their careers to become stay-at-home moms, said Sarah Green Carmichael at Bloomberg. As the pandemic is making clear, “when women leave the workforce, they’re not exercising their options — they’ve run out of them.” In August and September, 865,000 women dropped out of the…
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