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Women Make Great Leaders

Four Ways To Embrace And Advance Your Leadership Skills No matter your gender, it’s hard to deny that women are commanding new respect...

[2] On guilt antidotes...

“Guilt is not our friend,” Pat Mitchel said last week.* Indeed it isn’t. In fact, guilt is one of the most destructive and debilitating...

15 Ways Stay-At-Home Parents Can Prepare To Go Back To Work

Every day, around the world and across industries, professionals put their careers on hold to start a family. As the children grow up,...

[1] On personal growth space...

Stay-at-home mothers often become magnets for miscellaneous wider-family responsibilities that relatives with jobs haaave to delegate (or...

The women candidates for 2020 are putting motherhood front and center

Breaking with norms of the past... Moments after Kirsten Gillibrand announced her candidacy for president, the Democratic senator...

"Makes going to work look easy"

Decades before she was House speaker, Nancy Pelosi had an even harder job. Last month, Nancy Corinne Prowda was watching television when...

Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand. For Mother's Day I asked for one thing: a house cleaning service. Bathrooms...

In 2019, Leaning In Is Still No Match For The Maternal Wall

Working mothers are frustrated. In our quest for gender parity are we expected to just give up? I read Lean In on my honeymoon. Yes, in ...

Harvard Study: Kids of Working Moms Grow Up Just as Happy as Stay-At-Home Moms

To work or not to work? Harvard happiness study will instantly make all moms feel better. It's one of the first questions that many...

For Women Job Seekers, Networking Like a Man Isn't Enough

To get a great job, you’ve got to network—make contacts, know the right people. You know the drill. But a study out today in the...

How Stay-at-Home Parents Can Transition Back to Work

The vast majority of people who take time off to raise children (or other caregiving work) would ultimately like to return to the...

Why Working Mothers Should Turn To Entrepreneurship To Lean In

Entrepreneur is synonymous with disruptor, risk-taker and outlier. But entrepreneurship is more than a handful of dynamic personality...

Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do

Stop blaming motherhood for a problem created by fathers by Jessica Valenti One of the most pernicious modern myths about motherhood is...

A lesson on looking

Are you looking closely? Visual educator Amy Herman explains how to use art to enhance your powers of perception and find connections...

Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work

Harvard Business Review, 2018 by Priya Fielding-Singh, Devon Magliozzi & Swethaa Ballakrishnen To get ahead in the workplace, you have to...

Why Mothers Make Better Entrepreneurs

Raising a family might be more similar to running a startup than most people would realize. by Eva C. Reder "We can meet on Thursday at 9...

How Our Careers Affect Our Children

by Stewart D. Friedman What working parent hasn’t felt guilty about missing soccer games and piano recitals? When there are last-minute...

How to introduce yourself so you’ll be unforgettable (in a good way!)

If you can move beyond the boring basics when you’re asked “What do you do?”, you’ll set yourself up for new relationships, opportunities...

The Problem With Being Perfect

A trait that’s often seen as good can actually be destructive. Here’s how to combat it. by Olga Khazan When the psychologist Jessica...

How to gain control of your free time

How we choose to spend every minute, ultimately becomes our life. by Laura Vanderkam TedWomen, 2016 There are 168 hours in each week. How...