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 own, la...
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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...
Health & Wellness
The Health Signals Women Are Trained to Ignore
A woman I know sat in her kitchen one morning with her chest hurting in a way it had not hurt before, and she made coffee. She thought about whether the pa...
Essays
The Friendship Breakup No One Talks About
My friend and I stopped speaking on a Tuesday in October. There was no fight. There was no final conversation. There was a text I did not answer in the way...
Voices
I Walked Away From the Career I Built and Started Over
Three weeks before my forty-second birthday, I quit my job. I had been a senior director at the same company for nine years. I had been in the same industr...
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...
Bloom
How to Actually Rest When You Have Forgotten How
There is a moment that happens to a lot of women in the middle of a Saturday. The morning chores are done. The afternoon is open. No one needs anything imm...
Business
How Female Founders Are Quietly Rewriting the Rules of Business
In a small office above a bakery in Portland, Maine, a woman named Rachel runs a consulting firm that turned a profit in its first year and has not stopped...
Cover Features
Ashley Poklar: Speaking Up for Those Who Cannot Speak
The first time Ashley Poklar walked into an alternative school classroom, she was a student teacher who had specifically requested the placement everyone e...
Features
VOICES OF INVENTION
You watch your father slump in his chair, uncomfortable and in pain, and you search for something that will help. It does not exist. You bathe your aging m...
Editorial Team ·May 2026·9 min
Essays
Women Do Not Need More Motivation. They Need Support.
There is a particular kind of advice that gets aimed at women, and it has been the same for decades. Push harder. Believe in yourself. Manifest the life yo...
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