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Motherhood & Mental Health

May 6, 2022May 5, 2025Kamali Brooks
Motherhood & Mental Health
LifestyleLeave a Comment on Motherhood & Mental Health

May is the time of Mother’s Day and Mental Health Awareness Month. One of the greatest blessings in my life has been motherhood. I couldn’t image life without my children. I often miss squeezing and kissing them as babies and Read More

Harnessing the Power of Women-Owned Businesses

February 7, 2022May 2, 2025Kamali Brooks
Harnessing the Power of Women-Owned Businesses
CareerLeave a Comment on Harnessing the Power of Women-Owned Businesses

Women-owned businesses haven’t always been the norm. For many years, women struggled to create their own business and bring it to life. Obstacles in diversity and equality made it nearly impossible for females to succeed in the business world. That Read More

Startling Statistics about Invisible Offenders

January 22, 2016June 29, 2017Live Your Dream
Startling Statistics about Invisible Offenders
Activism, NewsLeave a Comment on Startling Statistics about Invisible Offenders

On December 31, 2015 US President Obama proclaimed January 2016 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention month. The proclamation asks us to “recognize the victims of trafficking,” and “resolve to build a future in which their perpetrators are brought Read More

International Women’s Day: What is YOUR dream for women and girls?

December 1, 2015May 18, 2018Live Your Dream
International Women’s Day: What is YOUR dream for women and girls?
Activism, News1 Comment on International Women’s Day: What is YOUR dream for women and girls?

More than 100 years ago, a woman named Clara Zetkin had a dream.  Clara was the leader of the “Women’s Office” for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. At that time, women in most countries did not have the right Read More

Pay Equity May No Longer Be a Dream in California

September 12, 2015December 7, 2016Live Your Dream
Pay Equity May No Longer Be a Dream in California
NewsLeave a Comment on Pay Equity May No Longer Be a Dream in California

For the last decade many of us have decried our inability to achieve true gender pay equity.  Nationwide, women continue to earn 78% of what men do for comparable jobs.  And in the last year, studies have shown dramatic gender-based Read More

Amnesty’s Misguided Resolution

August 17, 2015December 7, 2016Live Your Dream
Amnesty’s Misguided Resolution
NewsLeave a Comment on Amnesty’s Misguided Resolution

On August 11 Amnesty International’s (AI) governing body adopted a resolution supporting the legalization of “consensual” sex work.  You can read the press release regarding this decision here.  Frankly, I’ve been a bit angry about it.  I haven’t been a Read More

The Good, Bad and Ugly about FIFA Women’s World Cup

July 6, 2015December 7, 2016Live Your Dream
The Good, Bad and Ugly about FIFA Women’s World Cup
NewsLeave a Comment on The Good, Bad and Ugly about FIFA Women’s World Cup

It was so exciting to see the U.S. Women’s National Team win the Women’s World Cup yesterday.  I watched many Women’s World Cup (WWC) matches over the last few weeks (i.e., not just those involving the US) and noticed some Read More

Focus on Pay Equity, Not Work-Life Balance

June 26, 2015December 7, 2016Live Your Dream
Focus on Pay Equity, Not Work-Life Balance
NewsLeave a Comment on Focus on Pay Equity, Not Work-Life Balance

Robin Abcarian in the Los Angeles Times highlights another pay equity lawsuit–this one filed by women lawyers who had been working for Farmers Insurance.  The lawsuit claims not only were they paid less than men (some of whom had less Read More

The Statue of Liberty and Women’s Suffrage

June 17, 2015May 18, 2018Live Your Dream
The Statue of Liberty and Women’s Suffrage
NewsLeave a Comment on The Statue of Liberty and Women’s Suffrage

Today marks the 130th anniversary of the delivery of the Statue of Liberty to the United States. Elizabeth Mitchell wrote about the Statue of Liberty and its creator, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in her book, Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Read More

Is Your Profession Guilty of “Double-Barreled Bias”?

June 7, 2015December 7, 2016Live Your Dream
Is Your Profession Guilty of “Double-Barreled Bias”?
NewsLeave a Comment on Is Your Profession Guilty of “Double-Barreled Bias”?

If you’re like me, you have chuckled at Charlotte Whitton’s quote: “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”  But even though we may laugh at it, Read More

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