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...
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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...
Voices
The Promotion That Almost Cost Me Everything
I am writing this anonymously because I still work in the role I am about to describe, and some of what follows would be difficult to publish under my own...
Essays
The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired
There is a woman in my life who has been admired for as long as I have known her, and I have watched the admiration do something to her over the years that...
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