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Hello from a new Rhodes Project staff member!
Hello readers! My name is Rachel Achs, and I am the latest addition to the Rhodes Project team. I will be focusing on the social media side of the Project. A couple weeks ago, I began my stint by posting this article, but I’d like to take a step back and introduce myself before continuing … Read more
Dismantling the “Teutonic Mother Cult”
Hey guys! My name is Rachel Achs and I’m a new member of the Rhodes Project staff. I’ll be introducing myself soon, but I wanted to start off by posting this article: On October 3, the New York Times reported that Deutsche Telekom is having trouble meeting its newly introduced gender quota. This comes after … Read more
Rhodes Women: Shifting the Power of Balance #NWFM
Every year, the Rhodes Project is invited to participate in the National Work and Family Month Blog-a-thon, sponsored by the Alliance for Work – Life Balance. Support this important effort by sharing work/life balance articles in October: this is an issue that affects everyone. And take a look at our 2010 entry, on discrimination against … Read more
What We’re Reading Now: October is National Work and Family Month! #NWFM
Every year, the Rhodes Project is invited to participate in the National Work and Family Month Blog-a-thon, sponsored by the Alliance for Work – Life Balance. Support this important effort by sharing work/life balance articles in October: this is an issue that affects everyone. And take a look at our 2010 entry, on discrimination against parents … Read more
Naomi Wolf is so Nineties: On her conservative feminist critique
This Saturday in the Globe and Mail, Naomi Wolf argued that feminism, although of leftist origins, was not leftist in essence, taking as her example the female politicians who have risen through the ranks of the Tea Party in the US. Although Wolf does not align herself with their politics, she believes that the outsider … Read more
Guest Blog — The Pill and the Hill
It’s been a bleak year for women’s health, what with the Title X fracas and ongoing state battles to defund Planned Parenthood. Hence, the Obama administration’s Monday announcement that private health insurers will be required to cover preventive health services for women without copays or deductibles is welcome news. This historic legislation, the Affordable Health … Read more
Stop the Chore Wars!
When I saw the cover photograph of this week’s TIME magazine—an impeccably dapper husband and wife doing household chores—I thought, “Why is this woman mopping the floor in heels?” But the real misstep in the photograph is the location of both husband and wife inside the home. Ruth Davis Konigsberg’s article, “Chore Wars,” does nothing … Read more
What we’re reading now 20.07.11
An article in the Guardian discusses The Tree of Life’s brilliant and reclusive director—Rhodes Scholar Terrence Mallick. Mallick’s personal decision to focus all his energies on making the movie—as opposed to promoting it through red-carpet premiers and award shows—is refreshing in today’s hyper-documented entertainment industry (although we delight to think about what Mallick’s blog would … Read more
Hello from the new Rhodes Project Consultant!
My name is Casey Calista and I have joined the Rhodes Project team as a consultant focusing on Lucy Banda Sichone. Lucy was a Rhodes Scholar in 1978 and attended Oxford the same time as Dr. Ann Olivarius. The Rhodes Project has previously published a piece on Lucy, available here, which outlines her life, career, … Read more
Wanted: a new profile of Sheryl Sandberg
From time to time, people send the Rhodes Project articles that they feel are related to the work we do. Last week, a colleague e-mailed me Ken Auletta’s New Yorker profile of Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, with a note that it was “such a Rhodes piece.” It is now the most … Read more
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