Leadership
The Difference Between Being Needed and Being a Good Leader
There is a sensation that arrives when your phone rings and it is the third person this week who cannot proceed without you, and the sensation is not entir...
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Leadership
Business
Stop Trying to Sell to Everyone
Ask a woman who has been running a business for two years who her customer is, and you will frequently get an answer that covers most of the adult populati...
Career
Reinventing Yourself Without Starting From Zero
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...
Leadership
How to Lead Someone You Don't Like
Sooner or later you will manage someone whose company you do not enjoy. Not someone who performs badly, which is a separate problem with a separate solutio...
Health & Wellness
How to Finish the Year Without Burning Yourself Out
The final quarter of the year is structurally the hardest one, and most people treat it as a matter of willpower rather than as a predictable convergence o...
Career
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...
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...
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