by Cathi Hanauer | Sep 19, 2018
Editor’s note: Are you a single empty nester? We’d love to hear your experience in the comments! I was, as my teenage son would say, amped to  read Tom Perrotta’s new novel, Mrs. Fletcher. For one, Perrotta is a master of the funny, engaging, quirkily sexy...
by Janet Siroto | Jan 23, 2018
As we went to tabulate your responses to our survey about sexual misconduct, the news was still rife with stories of misconduct. Famous names in publishing, politics, the performing arts, and elsewhere were dismissed from their jobs or investigated. Â We saw Salma...
by Jeannie Ralston | Jan 17, 2018
2017 was our year, according to numerous late December assessments by writers who lean toward big pronouncements. Even though (or maybe because) a woman didn’t control the White House, we ended up controlling the zeitgeist. Even though (or maybe because) a woman...
by Veronica Chambers | Jan 17, 2018
I had an amazing work experience at Newsweek, which at the time was owned by the Washington Post. The atmosphere there was similar to how the film The Post depicts the newspaper. It felt like becoming part of a family, and I felt this swell of possibility. I was in a...
by Helen Darling | Jan 16, 2018
This article is part of a month-long series about transitions; at least one story per week will focus on new ways of living and thinking about ourselves. Recently I decided to go back to work, the hourly-pay kind of work. I mean my boys aren’t boys anymore, and...