It's no surprise that married and cohabitating men whose mothers were employed while they were growing up do more housework as adults than other men.
One of the things I tell people these days is that there is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather...
Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
Research supports Jen’s observation that equality between partners leads to happier relationships. When husbands do more housework, wives are less depressed, marital conflicts decrease, and satisfacti...
Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the muscles around our backbone.
Self-compassion isn't talked about as much as it should be, maybe because it's often confused with its troublesome cousins, self-pity and self-indulgence. Psychologist Kristin Neff describes self-comp...
Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of women who entered corporate America could do; in some cases, it might still be the safest path. But this strategy is not paying...
Survivor guilt is a thief of joy—yet another secondary loss from death.
Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. Padmasree
That’s the thing about faith…it helps you know that sooner or later this too shall pass.
The classic scenario unfolds like this. An ambitious and successful woman heads down a challenging career path with the thought of having children in the back of her mind. At some point, this thought...
The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
The loop in your head repeats, It’s my fault this is awful. My whole life is awful. And it’s always going to be awful.
The more satisfied a person is with her position, the less likely she is to leave.3 So the irony—and, to me, the tragedy—is that women wind up leaving the workforce precisely because of things they di...
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a...
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. A
The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are benevolent sexists—holding positive yet outdated views about women.10 (Another term I...
The success and likability penalty is imposed by both men and women. Women perpetuate this bias as well. (...) Calling attention to this bias forces people to think about whether there is a real probl...
The two things we want to know when we’re in pain are that we’re not crazy to feel the way we do and that we have support.
There are still countries that deny women basic civil rights. Worldwide, about 4.4 million women and 1 girls are trapped in the sex trade. In places like Afghanistan and Sudan, girls receive little or...
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