Ivanka Trump either is completely unable to sway her father even though she claims that he listens to her or that she simply doesn’t care about women’s rights.

I was at a meeting for my neighborhood elementary school a few weeks back. One of the teachers was talking about how they may have to have to cut art, PE, and after school programs. The majority of students in that school are low income. Many of the students don’t speak English as their first language. They need…

But that guy has been mayor of Bolingbrook for like 30 years. His closest previous race was one he won by 75%. He’s won other races with 100% of the vote. The fact that he eeked this one out my a mere 102 votes isn’t a victory, but it does feel like progress to me.

Word. I had a bad sleeper. I would have cut him.

Awww! Best of luck to you on a medically boring and safe pregnancy and delivery. Here are two things that are an attempt to make you feel better:

There are many days where I close the door to her bedroom after bedtime, look at my husband and say, “Well, we all survived.” And that day is marked in the success column.

Nah, they’ll tell you, “But it’s so wooooooooorth it. And you totally get used to it! You just don’t neeeeeeed as much sleep when you’re a parent!”

I am a mom, I really like being a mom. It is TOTALLY OKAY for anyone, and you specifically, not to be a mom.

My nearly socialist Chicago Alderman was elected at 26 and he’s doing all right so far.

I’ve got no love for Rahm, especially as a parent with a kid going into CPS soon. Chance puts forth a semi-coherent and remotely plausible education policy and I will consider it.

I did some work that involved close contact and sitting in interviews with people who had committed what would be classified as crimes against humanity - mass killings, rapes, tortures. That thing about the dead eyes is true in my experience. It’s like a shark is looking back at you, the light is somehow missing....…

Best of luck! My thing works best in a billable hour or client billing situation and is less applicable in situations where the hour pressure is internally driven, like nursing.

I’m in tech services for the legal industry, where there is a lot of pressure to work MOAR HOURS and what’s worked really well for me in keeping hours reasonable is to spin it not as a work life balance issue but as setting achievable client expectations. Saying, work life balance is important to me may get you…

This is true, but it’s also true that the cost/benefit to negotiating is different for women than it is for me. Not only are women who negotiate for raises less likely to get them (others have provided links to those studies) but other studies have shown that women who negotiate are more likely to be penalized for…

Yeah.... If you have kids, you should really talk to your Ob or Midwife about scheduling at pelvic physical therapy appointment about 8 weeks after childbirth, ESPECIALLY if you have forceps or a 3rd degree tear or worse. Stress incontinence after child birth is very common, like 1 in 3 women. Countries like France…

I have a paradoxical reaction to benadryl, as does my mother. It is unpleasant. I imagine it would be even more unpleasant for a 3 year old who doesn’t understand that feeling of jittery panic is chemically-induced and will go away eventually. The only way I think it could be worse for said 3-year-old, would be to…

Maybe I’m an outlier, but I have never personalized an avatar on any platform, save facebook (and my Facebook profile pic is like 10 years old at thus point.) I’ve had this account since the day they switched to Kinga, behold my randomly assigned, pink pixalated glory. I have 860 comments and over 7600 up votes on…

Mike Pence is working damn hard to make sure everything day is a day of silence for women. Well, some noise from the kitchen is whilst cooking dinner is unavoidable and he’s been told that he must tolerate some sounds while the babies are being birthed so thar he can be assured we are paying our penance for Original…

Weighting in to represent massive weddings: 300 people, 30k. Had it at a convention center, buffet to accommodate many pallets, full open bar. Our parents each paid about 1/3 and we got an unexpected windfall that paid for the rest. So luck had a lot to do with paying for it tbh. (The husband is Indian, it’s either…