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I’m THRILLED! And now I’m going to sleep.
Really, you know I don’t do this often. But yesterday Tula was curled up in the body pillow (which I’ve dubbed The Mommy Pod) that Daphne (of Super in the City fame) passed along to me. And I just couldn’t resist.
Please help me welcome an awesome new addition to the feminist blogosphere: Laura Sundstrom, who just recently graduated from Beloit College in May 2009 with a B.A. in Women’s and Gender Studies, can now be found musing at: Adventures of a Young Feminist.
I’m always psyched to see more young feminism out there online. And hey, Laura just joined SHE WRITES, so extra props for her! There’s now a few different bloggers groups over there and I’m jazzed….
You may have noticed that it’s been a little quiet over here. I’m finally resurfacing–breathlessly!–to tell you why.
On Monday, Kamy Wicoff, Nancy Miller, and I launched a new social networking site for women writers called SHE WRITES. You can find us at: www.shewrites.com. OMG. I’m struck with how fast this is catching on. We just hit 400 members and it’s only been 48 hours!!!!!
If you are a woman who writes (and that means MANY of you!!!), please join. It’s easy, it’s free, and it’s an enactment of the philosophy that I’ve always subscribed to here at Girl w/Pen: a woman writing need not write alone.
I’ll be migrating much of the consulting I’ve been doing — writing coaching, workshop leading, etc — to SHE WRITES. Look for future workshops under the SHE NEEDS HELP tab. The site is changing every minute, as more and more people sign on and get active over there. I hope you’ll join us and come see what it’s all about. The GWP community has been so sustaining for me over the years it’s been here, and in so many ways, YOU, the GWP community, are what led me to want to throw my all into the creation of an even wider community of women writers.
There’s so much more to say about this exciting new project, and I’ll share it all soon, but in the meantime, let’s just say I’ll see you there! Â And, of course, here at GWP.
Well now isn’t this interesting: Just as we learn that the world’s wealthy are losing faith in their fund managers, we are also learning that the VAST MAJORITY of fund managers are…guess what, surprise surprise…white and male. Perhaps it’s time to shake things up with a little (say it with me) di-ver-sity on Wall Street? You think? Come on boys, why not just give it a try.
According to a new report covered yesterday in the Times Online (UK), almost half of the world’s 8.6 million wealthiest investors have lost confidence in their fund manager. The report itself lays bare how the credit crunch has damaged people’s personal fortunes. According to the article, “Investors’ lack of faith prompted a quarter of those with financial assets of more $1 million to pull funds from a manager or dismiss their adviser last year…”
Ouch. But wait! Here’s the good news:
Yesterday, nearly 300 people gathered at the Bloomberg headquarters here in NYC for the release of a report by my ladies at the National Council for Research on Women, aptly titled “Women in Fund Management: A Road Map to Achieving Critical Mass—And Why it Matters.”
To learn more about the report’s important findings, and the splashy launch, check out Kyla Bender-Baird’s live-blogging from the event, NCRW President Linda Basch’s oped yesterday over at the Christian Science Monitor, and the report’s very own website, right here.
My heartfelt kudos to all involved in the creation of this timely piece of research, and especially to Purse Pundit, aka Jacki Zehner, for making it happen, being a role model and postergirl for the advancement of women on Wall Street, and keeping it real. Jacki’s latest on this all is up at Huffington Post, “Shattering the Ceilings for Good.”
My man is really involved in this pregnancy thing, I tell ya. What a modern dude.
So I’ve started to feel fluttering inside me — “quickening,” I’ve learned, is the official term when you start to feel the fetus(es) move. Last night I put Marco’s hand on my belly, to see if he could feel it on the outside. This morning, he turns to me and says “Wow – mine is totally moving around.” Accompanying photo attached.
And more importantly, what can be done?
Come hear the answers this Wednesday at the launch of a new report by The National Council for Research on Women.
From the release:
In the last year, we have all been stunned by stories of financial crises, of the sudden demise of long established institutions, and the failures of leading investment professionals. In this report, The National Council for Research on Women calls for fundamental change in the systems, oversight, and leadership of our financial services sector to ensure that the talent pool for the industry includes a diversity of perspectives, including moderating and cautionary approaches, to ensure a stable, healthy, and sustainable financial system. Specifically, they call for a critical mass of women in financial institutions, resulting in greater size and quality of the talent pool and decreasing potential for group-think. They examine the proven benefits of greater diversity in business; the historical and cultural barriers for underrepresented groups; and offer solutions to overcome those barriers.
With crisis comes opportunity – in this case, an opportunity to bring greater diversity to the rarified realms of finance and to infuse the global marketplace with new thinking, broader perspectives, greater transparency, and more sustainable solutions. A panel of experts will discuss how we can take this opportunity to promote women’s leadership in fund management and throughout the corporate space.
Speakers:
Melinda Wolfe, Head of Professional Development, Bloomberg L.P. — Welcome
Linda Basch, President, National Council for Research on Women
Jacki Zehner, Founding Partner, Circle Financial Group and
Board Member Emerita, National Council for Research on Women
Additional speakers to be announced.
Please RSVP to ncrw@ncrw.org
A must-read this morning: WGL panelist Courtney Martin expounds on many of the themes we discussed at Saturday’s panel in her column this week at The American Prospect. Thank you, Courtney, for so beautifully summing up some of the issues, and then taking it the next step.
For another great post-Father’s Day fix, try this latest interview with Jeremy Adam Smith, author of The Daddy Shift, over at Salon, “Daddy on Board”, where Jeremy discusses why dads are spending more time with their kids.
Me and my WGLs (WomenGirlsLadies) at the Brooklyn Museum! Thank you to all who came out on a rainy Saturday to talk it up about Dads, Dudes, and Doing It. Marco says we look like an all-female band here and it’s true: we wish. (We wish we had a manager, actually, is what we wish! Any takers?!) I’m dressed a little hippy dippy here, like the sole member of the group singing folk, but I’m told I get pregnancy license and hey, it’s what’s comfortable!
I hope everyone had a Happy Father’s Day!
There’s so much Father’s Day goodness out there today I don’t know where to start.
Former NYTimes blogger Marci Alboher asks “Are Dads the New Moms?” over at her new Yahoo blog, Working the New Economy.
Lisa Belkin conducts a two part interview with The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared ParentingAreTransforming the American Family
Michelle Goldberg of ABCNews.com tells us What Laid-Off Dads Want
And I offer “Findings from from the Layoff Lab”— a Father’s Day assessment of recession-era dads — over at The Big Money!Â
You can bet we’ll touch on many of these themes — and more, and from a fresh and feminist perspective — at the Brooklyn Museum tomorrow when the WomenGirlsLadies talk about “Dads, Dudes, and Doing It.” Event is free! We’ll be giving books away! I’ll be wearing straight-up maternity wear! This is one you won’t want to miss 🙂
PS. Time Out New York just listed us as one of the “Ten Best Father’s Day events” in town!
