Working Mothers
Find practical guidance, encouragement, and strategies for navigating work, caregiving, and career growth.
Tips
How to Raise Girls to Be Confident and Empowered
Research-backed tips for raising girls to be confident, curious, and empowered—from encouraging healthy risk-taking to teaching girls the value of failure.
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How Working Parents Can Lighten the Mental Load
Sharing the load at home but still feeling stretched thin? Here's how working parents can shrink the mental load — and see their busy life differently.
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What to Do if Your Partner's Job Always Comes First
Earning less doesn't mean your career takes a back seat. Learn how to reset a household dynamic that's leaving you stretched thin at home and at work.
Guides
For Working Mothers
Learn how to avoid the motherhood penalty with strategies to address bias against working moms, increase visibility, and advance your career.
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Celebrate the Ambition of Working Mothers
Working mothers are more ambitious than women overall, yet maternal bias holds them back. See the data and learn how to support moms at work.
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How to Be a Feminist Dad
Feminist dads raise healthier, more successful kids. Get research-backed tips on being an involved father who challenges gender stereotypes at home.
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Public Speaking Anxiety: Why It's Different for Women, and How to Move Past It
Women face gender bias when speaking in public, from interruptions to harsher judgment. Get research-backed tactics for building presenting confidence.
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How Do I Manage a Performance Review after Maternity Leave?
Managing a performance review after a hard six months with a new baby? Get advice on giving yourself credit and reframing the conversation.
Op-Ed
Why Women's Leadership Is More Important than Ever in the Age of AI
AI can't replicate communication, empathy, or ethical judgment, the strengths that position women to lead in an AI-powered workplace.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The Importance of Women's Financial Literacy, with Mrs. Dow Jones
Mrs. Dow Jones on negotiating pay, investing rather than just saving, and why financial literacy is real freedom for women in every stage of their careers.
Op-Ed
Q&A: The "Rainbow Ceiling" for LGBTQ+ Workers, with Layla McCay
Layla McCay explains the rainbow ceiling holding back LGBTQ+ workers, the pay gap behind it, and how allies at work can help close it starting today.
Findings
What happens when companies support Black women
Black women are among the most motivated and qualified employees, yet face the worst broken rung of any group. See the data and learn how to be a better ally.
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No equality at work without equality at home
Women have more power in the C-suite than ever, but housework inequality hasn't budged. See the data and what it means for workplace equality.
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How to be an equal partner
Couples who share housework and support each other's careers are happier and stronger. Get practical tips for building a truly equal partnership.
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The extra step many women take to become CEO
New Lean In research reveals the extra step women take to become CEO that men don't. See the data on the leadership gap and what companies can do.
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What Companies Support Women in the Workplace?
Learn the key signs a company genuinely supports women, from leadership representation to sponsorship programs and flexible work policies.
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“Imagine if they got support, this could be a woman’s world”
New McKinsey data reveals women face a broken rung in India, Nigeria, and Kenya. See what drives the gender gap and what companies can do to close it.
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The surprising connection between housework and fertility rates
Countries where men share housework have higher fertility rates. See what Nobel economist Claudia Goldin's research reveals about domestic labor.