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10 Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Career Before 2027
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...
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Features
Why Women's Work Is Often Remembered Without Their Names
Here is a name most of us were never taught. lived in Philadelphia in the early 1700s, raising four children and working out a better way to process corn....
Editorial Team ·Sep 2026·5 min
Career
The September Reset: 9 Things to Leave Behind Before the Year Ends
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...
Leadership
The Quiet Power of Being the Woman Who Makes the Introduction
Every professional field has one, and if you have been working long enough you can name her. She is not necessarily the most senior person in her industry....
WEFTS
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...
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...
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