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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...
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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...
Health & Wellness
The Diagnosis You Are Living With and Have Not Named
There is a particular conversation that happens between women, often somewhere around the fifteenth year of friendship, in which one of them mentions a sym...
Health & Wellness
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed
The data on misdiagnosis is one of the more uncomfortable bodies of evidence in contemporary medicine. Women are more likely than men to receive incorrect...
WEFTS
What Women Inherit From the Women Who Came Before Them
My grandmother died with a recipe in her head that she never wrote down. It was for a stew she made every Sunday, the kind that took most of the morning to...
Essays
What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care
The phrase self-care entered the cultural bloodstream in the 1970s through the writing of Black feminist activists who used it to describe something specif...
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 the Latest Research Says About Women and Burnout
When Dr. Christina Maslach published the first comprehensive measure of workplace burnout in 1981, she did not expect it to become one of the most widely u...
Essays
What I Used to Call Strength and What I Now Call Survival
I used to be proud of how much I could carry. The list of things was long. A full job. A household. Other people's needs, layered on top of my o...
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...
Leadership
The Loneliness of Leading Other Women
There is a story we tell about women supporting women, and then there is the experience of being a woman in charge of other women, and the two have less in...
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