having it all
The Sex And The City creator once had a very interesting date to a gala.
I met Candace Bushnell a few years ago in Las Vegas. She was headlining the annual Passion Parties convention and I was running around the desert, looking for Strippers and cocaine.* The Passion Parties crowd is a rowdy bunch and might be some of the most avid and knowledgeable fans of Sex And The City. Read: The Cons Of Living Vi-Carrie-Ously
For the record, Candace Bushnell considers herself more of a Samantha ("I'm Samantha… I have sex with everybody"**) and she told a really great story about being outshone by some bling. It goes something like this:
Candace … Read More
If you weren't paying attention, here's the week's best from YourTango.
YourTango this week was just like the perfect man: powerful, sexy and bold. In case your liquid lunch did a number on your memory, here's what you missed.
Feature: Can Powerful Women Find Love?
And you thought Maureen Dowd and Hilary Duff had nothing in common
Love Buzz: 5 Things To Blame On Sex And The City
If only love was as easy as scapegoating.
Celeb Love: Simon Says He And Paula Secretly In Love
Maybe he's not a cold-hearted snake after all?
Tomfoolery: If We Stop Kissing Then The Swine Flu Wins
We aren't in Beirut. We don't … Read More
Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere, and other wise words from Cosmo's iconic editor.
Not everyone sees Helen Gurley Brown as a great feminist. Some, in fact, see her as completely the opposite of that. As the editor of Cosmopolitan for 32 years, she celebrated sex and consumption. And in her interviews and bestselling book, Sex and the Single Girl, she advocated for men footing the dinner bill and women using their feminine wiles as a weapon.
But a new book by Jennifer Scanlon argues that Gurley Brown was, in fact, one of the great trailblazers, right up there with Betty Friedan (The Feminist Mystique) and Gloria Steinem. Entitled Bad Girls Go Everywhere: … Read More
Women fighting fertility timeouts are redefining what it means to "have it all."
In 1983, legendary Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown released a book called Having It All, in which she outlined tips for women hoping to find success in the workplace, at home and in bed. The past 25 years have left women's plates increasingly—some might argue, precariously—overloaded, as they try to maintain healthy portions of career, love and family. In her upcoming new book, In Her Own Sweet Time: Unexpected Adventures In Finding Love, Commitment, And Motherhood, New York City journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt explores the expanding buffet of choices that exist for women hoping to "have it all" today. … Read More
LPGA great walked away from the game less than a year ago and is on her way to having a family.
Recently retired golf super star Annika Sorenstam has become pregnant. Per Chattahbox, the female Tiger Woods and husband Mike McGee are expecting their first child as Annika has posted their imminent arrival on her personal blog.
The Swedish golf machine won 72 LPGA tournaments in her career and was named player of the year on eight occasions. The player of the year awards total is a record and she's mentioned in the same breath as Babe Didrikson and Mickey Wright when discussing the greatest lady golfers of all time.
But, clearly she wanted other things … Read More
Driven, successful, and... always single: Do guys really find power sexy?
Today, more women than ever are wildly ambitious and intellectually curious. According to Harvard Business School's e-publication "Working Knowledge," women now make up 35 to 40 percent of business school applicants; women also make up the majority in the undergraduate populations at more than one Ivy League college.
According to the BBC, the average woman's workweek is now half a day longer than it was five years ago—sometimes with more work waiting to be done at home. The media has coined the term "alpha female" to describe these assertive, strong, successful women who are big on work.
But how do … Read More
Women are working later into pregnancy and coming back sooner.
A recent survey by the census bureau shows that pregnant women are working more than ever.
A couple of quick stats:
-67% of first-time mothers are working (compared to 44% 40 years ago)
-80% of working women work into the last month of their pregnancy (35% 40 years ago)
-58% return to work within 3 months (16.5% 40 years ago)
Supposedly, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 was supposed to help this a little. So, what’s the moral? Is there one? Has our standard of living increase come at too high of a price? Are employers … Read More
Pregnancy presents, bunking up in Iraq, and college women put career first.
Get the latest love trends from Catie Lazarus. Bling for having a babies, married couples shacking up in Iraq and more!
These mavericks are making a risky, rewarding move to be together more.
According to Fortune Small Business, more and more couples are going into business together. It is estimated that 3 million of the 22 million small businesses in America are couple-owned (as of 2000).
The primary reason behind this change is thought to be that women are earning a lioness share (59%) of the college diplomas. And evidently the old mode of a man starting a company and having his wife run the office is going out the window. A good number of today’s mom & pop shops (by that we … Read More
According to a study by researchers from Duke and the University of Albany...
According to a study by researchers from Duke and the University of Albany (Catherine Mosher and Sharon Danoff-Burg, respectively) male undergraduates are now more likely to sacrifice career prospects for romance than females. In a survey of 237 undergrads (a small number if you ask us), 51% of the women said they would choose love over work. And 61% of the men said they would do likewise.
We did a Dish a few days ago about research that indicated women in unhappy marriages had high levels of stress whereas men derived most of their stress from work … Read More