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...
Zoe Matthews
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Career
What to Do When You Are Tired of Being the Only Woman in the Room
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
What I Learned When I Finally Said No
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
How to Recognize When a Job Is Costing You More Than It Pays
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
The Difference Between Networking and Real Connection
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...
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