In a corporate office, for instance, women are infantilized, so they continue to be seen as inferior and therefore less powerful to men professionally. A month ago, a colleague in the corporate office I used to work in asked if I was an intern. I didn’t express how I felt — because why would you, how […]
Racism is stunning in its consistency. Q: What’s the best way to appear professional? A: Dye yourself white. And make sure your hair approximates whiteness as best it can, too. That’s according to Google Images, at least. Twitter user @BonKamona posted the results of a search via Google for “professional hairstyles.” She repeated the experiment by […]
Because “expert” advice is doled out regularly for free on the Internet like candy from a Pez dispenser, is actual expert advice losing its financial value? My brain has been picked over like a dead gazelle. Dear God, the flies! Get them off me. Who can relate? Complete strangers on the Internet feel entitled to […]
Roughly 63% of working mothers agree with the statement “Sometimes I feel like a married single mom.” Many women know all too well how it feels to try to accomplish the suffocating expectation of succeeding as a full-time professional while also being a full-time mom. They know the true meaning of catching conference calls on the […]
Isn’t this movement away from us and toward independence the central goal of parenting? I started my son in full-time daycare a few months ago, when he was almost 2. Before that, my partner and I traded off childcare responsibilities and got a ton of help from a nanny that came a few days a […]
“Here you have the unexpected, glorious secret about dying. When you know it is going to happen, you can choose to make the final chapter of the story the very best one of all.” “Former lady who leaned in…” says the Twitter description beneath a photo of a beaming, golden-haired woman around my age in […]
