Saturday, November 7, 2015

Rosemary Kennedy and the Legacy of Mental Illness

An excerpt:
As a young girl in the early 1900s, Rosemary Kennedy—the eldest daughter of the auspicious Kennedy family—was beautiful, affectionate, and mild-mannered. But her life story pivots on what became perhaps the century's most chilling manifestation of the fear, shame, and ignorance that surrounds mental health: the lobotomy.
Check out her (rather gruesome) story in Vice.

Why Women Aren’t C.E.O.s, According to Women Who Almost Were

"It’s not a pipeline problem. It’s about loneliness, competition and deeply rooted barriers." Read more in the NYT .