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In a professional setting, there’s really no excuse for bad-mouthing anyway — be it your client, colleague or CEO. Read...

Every child needs to know that they have an unlimited source of support in their parents, who will love and accept them no matter how badly they’ve failed. Read...

We’re all susceptible to work stress. Even if you’ve got your dream gig, there will no doubt be times that you’re stressing out about work.

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The reality is that not everyone wants children. Read...

This article first appeared on Fairygodboss and has been republished with permission.

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After 17 years as a working mom, I see my biggest job as bringing up my two sons and making them responsible, ethical adults who contribute to the future of the world.

On a day-to-day basis, though, this mostly involves cooking for them, driving them around, cleaning up after them and always remembering how much I love them. I’m fortunate to have a great partner in crime in my husband, and he helps create an environment of gender neutrality at home; daddy cooking doesn’t signify a “special occasion,” for instance. Add to this an employer that empowers you, as well as management that values your contributions, and what you have is a team of indispensable allies for working moms like me who want to keep their sanity.

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As businesses across the world shutter — with little idea as to whether or when they’ll be able to reopen — countless people are left feeling like their careers have been put on hold.  Read...

Financial anxieties are on the rise and, for many of us, triggering memories of the last recession we lived through, in 2008.  Read...

Women are always enduring the unwarranted, unsolicited opinions of others on how they should live their lives. Read...

Obsessing about work mistakes? These six strategies can help you put these situations in perspective and find a productive way to move forward.

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Your Monday blues are likely worse if you are going through something you can’t control, like fertility treatment, a parent’s illness, or project deadlines.

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