Childbirth Trauma: The Human Rights Issue Nobody Really Cares About

Childbirth Trauma: The Human Rights Issue Nobody Really Cares About

Childbirth trauma is a major public health issue in the United States, as well as globally, with up to one third of mothers1 describing their birth experiences as traumatic, and up to 20 percent reporting clinically significant symptoms of PTSD, though the number is likely higher given the prevalence of underreporting, misdiagnosis, and an absence of routine screening protocols and any formal diagnosis.

Moms Are Speaking. Are We Really Listening?

Moms Are Speaking. Are We Really Listening?

ow do modern-day moms really feel? It’s a question almost no one in positions of cultural power actually takes the time to ask. We hear endless talk about closing the “gender pay gap,” designing workplace policies to shove mothers back into offices, and celebrating women who “do it all.” But when was the last time anyone paused, looked a mother in the eye, and listened to how she feels about the relentless messaging that motherhood is somehow lesser?

Webinar summary: “What if Selling Revealed You!”

Webinar summary: “What if Selling Revealed You!”

Céline approaches sales through the prism of direct selling and female empowerment. With exceptional experience – over 10,000 salespeople under her management and sales of up to 450 million euros – she shares a deeply human vision of the profession.
For Murielle, her starting point is philosophical: everything is sales. A conversation, a marriage, a religious conviction – it’s all based on an exchange of values between two people. To understand this is to desacralize and de-dramatize sales.

The Male Breadwinner Model Was Never Traditional

The Male Breadwinner Model Was Never Traditional

I argue that the breadwinner model is not traditional but was a radical invention that was little more than a century old at its peak. It carried within it the very pathologies that now afflict the dual-earner model that succeeded it. If we want to understand why men and women struggle to build genuine partnerships today, we need to go further back than the postwar golden age to really understand what the breadwinner model replaced.