by ellenboeder | Nov 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
I know there’s this thing about midlife women finally saying, “I don’t give a f*ck!” It speaks to how they no longer care what others think of them, or whether they measure up to society’s ideas of how they should be, act, live, work, mother, or look–and I’m...
by ellenboeder | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
I had a client once who was deciding if she wanted to have a baby or not (she was not pregnant at the time). She was concerned that I could not support her in this deliberation because she had seen (through social media and public speaking) how much I valued my role...
by ellenboeder | Mar 7, 2016 | economics, Feminism, Motherhood, nurturing, values
“…mothers can never achieve economic equality in the labor market as things now stand…Workplace marginalization has cumulative effects on a primary caregiver’s income, her status in marriage, her children’s security, and even the economy as whole.” —The Price of...
by ellenboeder | Sep 21, 2015 | empowerment, Feminism, Motherhood
When the feminist scholar and professor Andrea O’Reilly was looking for an artist to create the cover for the book, “Mother Outlaws: Theory and Practice of Empowered Mothering,” the majority of the images she received were of pregnant women’s torsos. Though...
by ellenboeder | Aug 25, 2015 | empowerment, Feminism, Motherhood
About a year ago I started searching for resources on feminism and motherhood. When I realized that a lot of my pre-motherhood feminist ideals of independence, financial autonomy, and career advancement (that had given me a sense of empowerment) were not what I was...
