Essays, features, and honest perspectives from women navigating work, leadership, care, identity, transition, and change.
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The complete collection of published essays, interviews, profiles, and practical perspectives.
Leadership
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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