The data on misdiagnosis is one of the more uncomfortable bodies of evidence in contemporary medicine. Women are more likely than men to receive incor...
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Health & Wellness
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed
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...
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 femi...
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...
Essays
What the Latest Research Says About Women and Burnout
When Dr. Christina Maslach published the first comprehensive measure of workplace burnout in 1981, s...
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...
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...
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 w...
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...
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 con...
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...
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...
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...
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 tha...
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....
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