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Hispanic Women Shaping the Next Generation of Leadership
Hispanic Heritage Month begins on the fifteenth of September rather than the first, and the reason is worth knowing because it explains something about how...
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Health & Wellness
Healthy Aging Starts Earlier Than You Think
September is designated Healthy Aging Month, and the observance has a marketing problem. The phrase reads as a topic for women in their seventies, which me...
Health & Wellness
When Sunday Night Anxiety Becomes a Warning Sign
There is a specific feeling that arrives, for many women, somewhere between four and eight in the evening on Sunday. It is not exactly dread, though dread...
Career
What Women Actually Need to Hear at Work That No One Is Saying
Here is the honest problem with the feedback most women receive at work. It is not that the feedback is unkind, though sometimes it is. It is not that the...
Cover Features
The Woman Building Places to Exhale
There is a feeling many women recognize the moment it happens. You walk into a room, whether an office, a friend's house, a therapist's waiting area, and b...
Features
Amira Robinson: Building Books That Keep Up With Your Business
Most business owners only think about their finances once a year, right around the time tax season starts to feel like a countdown clock. Receipts pile up...
Bloom
What It Means to Rest Without Earning It
There is a belief that lives inside most women I know, and it is one of the more expensive beliefs any of us carry. The belief is that rest must be earned....
Essays
The Grief No One Prepares Women For
There is a photograph on the wall in my hallway of a woman I no longer recognize. She is thirty-two years old. She is standing at a kitchen counter, laughi...
Business
The Business Women Are Quietly Building Around Care
In a converted storefront in a small city in Ohio, a woman named Renata Alvarez runs a company that provides support services to families managing dementia...
Features
What Happens When the Family Caregiver Is Done
Eileen Marston had been caring for her mother for nine years when she stopped, and the stopping did not look the way she had imagined it would when she had...
Business
What Female Founders Wish Their Investors Understood
In a conference room in San Francisco's South of Market district, a woman named Priya Mehta sat across from a partner at a major venture capital firm who h...
Bloom
What Comes After You Finally Stop Performing
Here is something nobody warned me about. When you finally stop performing the version of yourself that you have been performing for most of your adult lif...
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