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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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 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 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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Posted by Birute Regine 10 4th, 2010
Tea Partiers and right wing conservatives have been proclaiming themselves as advocates of the US Constitution and want to go back to the original interpretation established by the framers. Their near hysterical and distorted manner of embracing the Constitution seems to have missed an important element, the heart and soul of the document itself. When […]
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Posted by Birute Regine 09 15th, 2010
I came across ancient predictions from civilizations as far apart as Meso-America and Asia that point to 2010 as the beginning of an inevitable transition from the Era of Man, which has extended back some 5000 years, to a new, more embracing, more human era: The Era of Woman. A proliferation of patriarchal societies defined […]
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Posted by Birute Regine 08 19th, 2010
I’ve read the amazingly successful blockbuster bestseller “Eat,Pray, Love.” It’s a well-written, witty, entertaining memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert. I have to admit, I’ve been scratching my head as to why is has been among the top 10 books for how many years now? It’s good, but is it really that good? Okay, I admit I […]
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