Posted by Birute Regine 10 3rd, 2011
Back in the early 80’s, I was involved with the Harvard Project of the Development of Girls and the Psychology of Women headed by psychologist Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice. It was a heady, exciting intellectual time. Previously most psychological research was based on all male participants, the assumption being that what [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 07 30th, 2011
Finally, the media takes notice of women’s sports but it takes being a finalist in the Women’s World Cup for it to happen. And even then you had to have cable TV to see the game on ESPN. Women’s sports has come a long way, partly due to Title IX, but it still has a [...]
Posted in : Gladiator watch
Posted by Birute Regine 07 11th, 2011
I was having dinner with a friend, a very successful consultant, whom I hadn’t seen for quite awhile. As we munched on a Caesar salad, I talked about my research on successful women. “I asked myself what did these women, from many walks of life, share in common,” I told my friend. “What I discovered [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 03 16th, 2011
In July of 2000, Swanee Hunt, former ambassador to Austria and founder of the Institute for Inclusive Security, was hosting a dinner at her home in Cambridge, MA for the Democratic Congressional Caucus. President Clinton walked into the gathering, after failing 48 hours previously at Camp David, to negotiate a settlement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 01 25th, 2011
On a cold wintry day like today in Hancock, New Hampshire, when it’s minus 7 degrees and three feet of snow sit like piles of meringue glistening in the morning light, hibernation instinct kicks in and I just want to hide in my cave. I notice the cave needs some tidying up though, and I [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 12 14th, 2010
I’m in New Hampshire, looking out my window as I write. The night flurries have left the pines sugar-coated; the peninsula juts out into the frozen river of white and grey. Clouds drift heavily in the sky, casting shadows on the path that winds through the woods like a white ribbon. The winter landscape is a palette [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 11 20th, 2010
Fed up with the polarization and posturing in Congress, many people opted to vote out the old and vote in the new in hopes of changing the game. Voting out women, however, is not going to help solve these problems. This is the first decline in women represented in Congress since 1978. Scores of countries [...]
Posted in : Gladiator watch
Posted by Birute Regine 11 9th, 2010
When I interviewed Texas Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson several years ago she had presented a peace resolution that was pending in Congress. The thinking behind it was that we need to plan for peace like we plan for war. She told me that some of her male colleagues in Congress said they were afraid to [...]
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Posted by Birute Regine 10 14th, 2010
(This blog was originally published on the Huffington Post, Oct 5, 2010) Years ago, I visited my daughter Rasa at a wildlife camp about 10 miles south of Nairobi, Kenya, where she was studying wildlife management. Rasa’s three months at the camp, closely connected as she was to nature, transformed this beautiful strong young woman, [...]
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The Global Ring of Girls’ Voices
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Vulnerability Management: Required course for leaders?
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Collective Intelligence: A not so secret path to peace
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