Now is the time, we are the women: Iron Butterflies

Courageous Vulnerability: A Problem for Men?

Posted by Birute Regine 04 11th, 2013

In isolated North Korea, the new and untested president Kim Jong-un asserts his authority and power with threats and saber rattling—well, actually nuclear arms rattling. Rutgers basketball coach, Mike Rice, demonstrates his power and authority by whacking a kid’s head with a basketball and smearing his team with slurs that deride anything feminine. In Colombine, […]

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Cultivate a Feminine Presence

Posted by Birute Regine 02 28th, 2013

Women’s history month celebrates the accomplishment of women in history, many of them unsung and many still unknown. But it is also a time to consider how women can continue to make history. One way to do that is to redefine leadership by cultivating a feminine presence in the workplace and in our communities. in […]

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Finding Our Way Home

Posted by Birute Regine 12 11th, 2012

The holiday season is a time to go home, to be with family or friends, a journey that begins with the best of intentions. We look forward to all those parties and shared meals, all those gatherings where the room is abuzz with conversations as everyone catches up on news. We love the inside jokes […]

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From Amazon Woman to Feminine Presence

Posted by Birute Regine 08 7th, 2012

In the eighties, women flooded the male-dominated workplace and had to prove themselves man enough for the job. In order to succeed, they had to play the game and often felt they had to copy men’s behavior. Women even dressed the part with padded shoulders, pant suits, certain kind of haircut, a neck scarf. One […]

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The Global Ring of Girls' Voices

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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Play Ball, Girls!

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 […]

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Vulnerability Management: Required course for leaders?

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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Collective Intelligence: A not so secret path to peace

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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Trust Women

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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The Winter Solstice Within

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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