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Career
The planning meeting ends at 3:30, and you have ninety minutes to finish the budget summary due tomorrow morning. You are halfway back to your desk when Da...
Career
The sentence that stops most reinventions is some version of I would have to start over. A woman says it about a field she has been curious about for six y...
Career
Most year-end career reflection is really goal setting wearing a disguise. You look back briefly, decide what you want next, write it down, and the looking...
Career
September does something to women that January does not. January arrives with a clean page and a culture that wants you to fill it, and most of us know by...
Career
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...
Career
There is a particular fatigue that arrives, often somewhere in the second decade of a woman's career, that has nothing to do with the work itself. The work...
Essays
The first no was to a woman I had known for eleven years. She had asked me, the way she had asked me dozens of times, to do something that would benefit he...
Career
Here is something almost no one tells you when you take a new job. The salary is the easy number to calculate. Everything else, the part of the job that do...
Career
Most women I know have a particular feeling about networking events. It sits somewhere between dread and obligation. They put on the outfit. They print the...
