Elissa Strauss has written for the Forward over a number of years. She is a regular contributor to CNN, whose work has been published in a number of publications including The New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, and Longreads.
Elissa Strauss
By Elissa Strauss
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Life Do Powerful Women Really Make Best Friends?
According to Ann Friedman in her post “Shine Theory: Why Powerful Women Make the Best Friends,” over at NYMag.com, we should seek out women who are more together or successful than we are. She writes: Approaching and befriending women who I identify as smart and powerful (sometimes actively pursuing them, as with any other crush)…
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Life My iPhone Love Affair
As Nina Badzin has been trying to cure her addiction to her smartphone — a struggle she is poignantly and hilariously documenting for the Sisterhood — I have been falling more and more in love with mine. Over half a year ago I gave birth to a baby boy. Taking care of him has been…
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Life Birthright For Babies
As a recent Forward editorial noted, a new Pew study found that 40% of breadwinners are now mothers and 40% of children are now born to single mothers. This shift towards the breadwinner mom, which experts say is irreversible, has us all thinking about the kids. Three-quarters of Americans believe that the rise in women…
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Life Gay Married People, They’re Just Like Us!
You think you are happy in your marriage? Well, you are not as happy as gays and lesbians! Or at least so says Liza Mundy in her cover story, “The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss, for this month’s Atlantic magazine about the lessons heterosexuals should glean from homosexual marriages. Mundy argues that instead of undermining…
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Life Is Fashion Advice for Female Interns Sexist?
In a recent post on Slate’s DoubleX, Katherine Goldstein provides tips for female summer interns on what exactly is appropriate to wear to a workplace. The advice on how to avoid looking like a “skintern” includes avoiding see-through anything, concealing undergarments and leaving the four-inch heels at home. Goldstein ends the post by telling women…
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Life Ruth, Naomi and Women Working Together
Earlier this week, Sisterhood contributors Sarah Seltzer and Chanel Dubofsky published a fantastic back and forth on professional jealousy over at the Billfold. In their conversation they talked about how to remain confident and stay focused on your work, even as others might get the professional breaks you long-desired. They also discussed how it is…
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Life Is the New Domesticity Hurting Women?
Been wondering what’s behind all those artisanal chocolate bars cluttering check-out lanes and tattooed women knitting booties for the babies permanently strapped to their chests? Or, as the show “Portlandia” so acutely captured in one of its most hilarious skits, the undeniable urge that crafty young folks have to put a bird on it? So…
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Life Motherhood? Easy!
Motherhood is easy. Okay, it isn’t really, but doesn’t it feel so good to hear that it might be? That it could be? That, maybe, it should be? Those words, together, motherhood and easy — just writing them allows me to breath deeper. It gets me thinking that, maybe, things really are all right. Like…
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