by Stephenie Foster | Aug 14, 2017 | Book Reviews, Featured Posts, In the News, Readings
In July, I read the Washington Post article about 150 maids who rioted at the Mahagun Moderna apartment complex in Noida, outside Delhi, India. These workers stormed the complex because they believed a maid had been beaten and held captive overnight by her employers...
by Stephenie Foster | Mar 26, 2017 | Book Reviews, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
My latest blog — a review of Helene Cooper’s new book on Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberia. It’s a must read.
by Stephenie Foster | May 25, 2014 | Book Reviews, Women in Leadership
I just finished this amazing – and inspiring – autobiography of Dr. Hawa Abdi and her work in Somalia. I’ve heard Dr. Abdi speak several times, and met one of her courageous daughters, Dr. Deqo Abdi. But, the book provides so much more insight than...
by Stephenie Foster | Oct 23, 2013 | Book Reviews, Women in Business, Women in Leadership
Here is my Huffington Post review of Martha Johnson’s new book, On My Watch: Leadership, Innovation & Personal Resilience. A great read for anyone who is interested in how leaders at every level of an organization can think about innovation, transparency,...
by Stephenie Foster | Oct 17, 2013 | Book Reviews, Women in Business, Women in Leadership
Here’s the latest, with some things I took away from Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In. I found it to be a conversation starter.
by Stephenie Foster | Jun 28, 2013 | Book Reviews, Women in Business, Women in Leadership
My first iBook is out! This iBook – focusing on women’s business advocacy – is another in my series of manuals designed to help women succeed in business, public life and advocacy, and my co-author is my great friend Lauren Supina. I hope you will take a look...
by Stephenie Foster | Feb 8, 2013 | Book Reviews, Women in Business, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
I’m excited that the newly published Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today’s World contains seven entries that I authored, including short biographic pieces on Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and Bahraini businesswoman...
by Stephenie Foster | Dec 26, 2012 | Book Reviews, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
This article also appeared on the Huffington Post, January 23, 2013. I’m on an email list where, at each year end, we exchange lists of books and movies we recommend to each other. This year, I decided to focus on books and films re Afghanistan. This is in no way a...
by Stephenie Foster | Aug 24, 2012 | Book Reviews, Women in the Middle East/North Africa
Like Rory Stewart, who wrote The Places In Between, Asne Seierstad came to Afghanistan two weeks after the fall of the Taliban. However, her book, The Bookseller of Kabul, is a different kind of portrait of Afghans and Afghanistan than Stewart’s account of his walk...
by Stephenie Foster | Aug 19, 2012 | Book Reviews
Most women want to be good daughters. I certainly know that I did and that striving toward that goal was very important to me. Joyce Maynard’s book, The Good Daughters, addresses this struggle of being a “good daughter” and facing the world as your own person. The...
by Stephenie Foster | Aug 7, 2012 | Book Reviews, Readings
Rory Stewart is what many would call eccentric. Two weeks after the fall of the Taliban, Stewart traveled to Afghanistan to walk from Herat to Kabul. His account of that walk, The Places in Between, is a quirky book. It’s about his walk across the rugged terrain...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 8, 2012 | Book Reviews, Women in Leadership, Women in Politics
Not even a month after her book, Mighty Be Our Powers, was published in September 2011, Leymah Gbowee won the Nobel Peace Prize along with two other women, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen. Gbowee was awarded the prize for...
by Stephenie Foster | Jul 1, 2012 | Book Reviews
I had purchased Diane Keaton’s recent book, Then Again, when it came out and put it in a stack of books to read later. And so this weekend, in the sweltering Washington, DC heat, I picked it up and decided to read it because, frankly, I thought it would be a very...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 25, 2012 | Book Reviews, Readings
Here’s my latest on Huffington Post – review of a great biography of Aung San Suu Kyi. I highly recommend it.