Welcome to the new ShriverReport.org, the go-to place for insightful, informative and impactful reporting from the front lines of women’s lives.  → Read More

This week, Maria Shriver took to The TODAY Show to ask women around the country a simple question that our readers are certainly familiar with: what does #DoingItAll mean to you?  → Read More

When you’re trying to squeeze a little extra productivity out of your day, do you sacrifice sleep? If you forgo sleep in favor of getting more done you’re not alone. As tempting as it may be to stretch the length of your day by limiting your sleep, this practice can actually be detrimental to your productivity, your focus and attention, your emotional well-being, and your overall health. And there are a number of simple steps you can take to improve the quality of your sleep and ensure you’re getting enough sleep on a regular basis.  → Read More

Not only does traditional masculinity oppress women but it also severely restricts the agency of men (a topic, I’ve written about in the past in the context of straight man love and hip-hop), often in simple, taken-for-granted ways. Straight men go to extreme lengths to perform masculinity. They avoid a wide variety of activities that they arbitrarily deem feminine or “gay” without analyzing the detrimental effects of this type of gender policing. Often mundane, seemingly inconsequential activities are heavily policed, inhibiting men’s ability to live freely day-to-day. While it’s also important to show men the macro level benefits of feminism and disavowing traditional masculinity, I thought it would be fun to reveal the little ways that my life changed when I stopped trying to perform traditional, patriarchal masculinity. So here it is: the 5 MOST Mundane Ways Disavowing Masculinity Changed My Life.  → Read More

Grad schools that offer financial aid aren’t doing it to be nice and help you out. Any university you might apply to wants to make itself look good, and they want to bring in students that will better the school’s image; offering financial aid is one way they attract desirable students. But what other tricks are there to making a graduate degree more affordable? What’s the difference between paying for a master’s and a PhD? How does that differ from going to law school?  → Read More

A few years ago, I asked my husband out on a date. I remember this evening in particular because I had to talk to him about something important and I thought that he would not be too pleased with the news. We had made a number of appointments with a reproduction specialist. My husband and I had organized a long trip in the hopes that we would conceive our child. That evening, I told him that I could not follow through with our plan.  → Read More

Seven years ago I learned two things. I learned that I had breast cancer and dense breast tissue. Tragically, I learned them both the same day. My tumor, detected through a self exam, did not show up on a mammogram that day.  → Read More

When someone responds with sarcasm after I explain that I am not a Feminist, I believe it is more than an indication that I am being stereotyped, or judged, but that perhaps the person with whom I am speaking has limited exposure to different narratives of women’s livelihood. Like all things well-intended, therein are ugly truths, and American Feminism, is no exception. Knowing this, I made a choice about how I identify myself as an advocate for the rights of all women, and inclusion (or lack thereof) was foremost in my decision.  → Read More

The fact that a wage gap exists between genders is not up for debate. You already know the all-too-familiar statistic that women earn 77 cents for every dollar that men earn. But exactly why the gap persists is still being discussed. A study published in the American Sociological Review offers a new explanation. Researchers claim that it may be a matter of overtime: Men are more likely than women to put in 50 hours or more of work a week.  → Read More

I’ve got three boys ages 5, 3 and 9 months young. They’re all perfectly spaced by 2 years and 5 months. People say I have a team. Oh yeah, I love my wife. She’s on the team too! She finances our team and she organizes our space.  → Read More