Going Back To School

As women we celebrate new adventures and joyfully enter new phases of life. Many women get to a certain point in their lives, often after having raised kids, where they are ready for a new challenge. And this new challenge might be learning a new skill or even starting a new career.

For many women, the challenge of choice is a college education. I’ve known several mothers who, after spending 4-6 years raising kids with very little intellectual stimulation, choose to go back to school to get re-baptized into the world of adult life… a new start.

But going back to school later in life isn’t without challenges. Especially as a parent if you still have kids in the home. It’s a balancing act and sometimes you just won’t have enough time. But just because you can’t experience college like a single young adult who’s 18 years old, doesn’t mean it’s not worth your effort. It might just be the challenge you were looking for.

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20 Women Who Shaped Our World

Women are playing an increasingly larger role in shaping the world we live in.  That’s great news!   And about time.  There are countelss women who have helped make our world a better place, but some stand out as having made culture changing contributions.

The website SuperScholar has listed twenty of the most influential women intellectuals of our time.   Admittedly, I don’t recognize most of these women, but we probably all owe them some debt of gratitude for bringing about a better world.

Here’s are the top ten and then you can read about them all and see the last 10 at the original article:

1. Margaret Atwood
2. Aung San Suu Kyi
3. Karen Armstrong
4. Susan Blackmore
5. Mary Daly
6. Midge Decter
7. Barbara Ehrenreich
8. Susan Faludi
9. Susan Greenfield
10. Germaine Greer

Read the rest here: 20 Most Influential Women Intellectuals

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