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When Sunday Night Anxiety Becomes a Warning Sign
When Sunday Night Anxiety Becomes a Warning Sign

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 d...

What Women Actually Need to Hear at Work That No One Is Saying
What Women Actually Need to Hear at Work That No One Is Saying

Here is the honest problem with the feedback most women receive at work. It is not that the feedback...

What It Means to Rest Without Earning It
What It Means to Rest Without Earning It

There is a belief that lives inside most women I know, and it is one of the more expensive beliefs a...

Amira Robinson: Building Books That Keep Up With Your Business
Amira Robinson: Building Books That Keep Up With Your Business

Most business owners only think about their finances once a year, right around the time tax season s...

The Grief No One Prepares Women For
The Grief No One Prepares Women For

There is a photograph on the wall in my hallway of a woman I no longer recognize. She is thirty-two...

The Business Women Are Quietly Building Around Care
The Business Women Are Quietly Building Around Care

In a converted storefront in a small city in Ohio, a woman named Renata Alvarez runs a company that...

What Happens When the Family Caregiver Is Done
What Happens When the Family Caregiver Is Done

Eileen Marston had been caring for her mother for nine years when she stopped, and the stopping did...

What Female Founders Wish Their Investors Understood
What Female Founders Wish Their Investors Understood

In a conference room in San Francisco's South of Market district, a woman named Priya Mehta sat acro...

What Comes After You Finally Stop Performing
What Comes After You Finally Stop Performing

Here is something nobody warned me about. When you finally stop performing the version of yourself t...

The Promotion That Almost Cost Me Everything
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 w...

The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired
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 Diagnosis You Are Living With and Have Not Named
The Diagnosis You Are Living With and Have Not Named

There is a particular conversation that happens between women, often somewhere around the fifteenth...

Why Women Are More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed
Why Women Are More Likely to Be Misdiagnosed

The data on misdiagnosis is one of the more uncomfortable bodies of evidence in contemporary medicin...

What Women Inherit From the Women Who Came Before Them
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...

What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care
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...

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