2011
Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
85 min
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When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.
More and more women are discovering after years of marriage to men, and having had children, that they are lesbians. Were they always—or is sexuality more fluid?
Gloria Steinem became a spokesperson for issues about aging quite accidentally after declaring to a reporter on the occasion of her fortieth birthday, "This is what forty looks like.
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In her latest book, Crones Don’t Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen’s playful sense of humour and keen insight combine to offer women thirteen qualities to cultivate. Engage in these small practises and you’re bound to be a happier person, who’s doing her bit to make the world just a little better.
What’s next for the getting-older generation of women who have been redefining themselves each decade? Women turn 50 and cross into uncharted territory.
Geriatric psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dilip Jeste reveals how our brains compensate for physical aging and discusses an unexpected evolutionary advantage to growing old–gaining sage wisdom–which holds great promise to benefit society as a whole.
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