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No, Earning More Wonโt Make You Wealthy. A Financial Planner Explains What Will
Read More: No, Earning More Wonโt Make You Wealthy. A Financial Planner Explains What WillThe biggest mistake Certified Financial Planner Kim Potgieter sees young professionals make is assuming that earning more will make them wealthy. Their thinking goes that once their promotion lands, their salary increases or their bonus clears, financial security will shortly follow on its own. The reality? It rarely does. Weโve all been there: you finally…
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Stop Avoiding Your Credit Score! 5 Expert Ways To Boost Your Rating Right Now
Read More: Stop Avoiding Your Credit Score! 5 Expert Ways To Boost Your Rating Right NowIf owning a home is on your vision board, let this be your first set of keys to unlocking that dream. Youโve heard of a credit score, sure, but used wisely, every swipe, spend and slip can help tap open doors. Certified Financial Plannerยฎ and financial wellness coach Jean Archary shows you how. Meet the…
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How Menopause Affects Women at Work
Read More: How Menopause Affects Women at WorkWhen I put out a call on social media recently for fellow Gen X friends to share their experiences with menopause at work, the response was immediate and enthusiastic. Many in my circle were eager to talk about how this tumultuous transition has impacted their work life. But when I asked if anyone could share…
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Do You Have A Bullsh*t Job? Hereโs How To Tell โ And Whether AI Could Replace You
Read More: Do You Have A Bullsh*t Job? Hereโs How To Tell โ And Whether AI Could Replace YouWill AI replace my job?ย Itโs a question that may well have crept into your late-night, panic-stricken thoughts. But according to the authors ofย Survive The AI Apocalypse: A Guide For Solutionists, the roles most at risk arenโt always the ones youโd expect โ theyโre often the well-paid positions that add little real value. In this exclusive…
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Red Flags To Look Out For When Hunting For A New Job
Read More: Red Flags To Look Out For When Hunting For A New JobFeeling unfulfilled in your current role and considering a career change? Before jumping into a new position, itโs important that you look beyond the salary package and job title and consider what really makes you happy. Genuine workplace happiness depends less on the industry itself and more on human connection, supportive culture, and team dynamics.…
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Taking Charge of My Finances Gave Me Strength During Loss
Read More: Taking Charge of My Finances Gave Me Strength During LossAs told to Jacquelyne Froeber and Noelys Mendez August 14 is National Financial Awareness Day. I grew up in the countryside of Cuba in a traditional Cuban household. My father was the provider for the family. He worked โ a lot โ on the small farm we owned and he took care of all of…
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5 Women’s Health and Beauty Products Made by Women
Read More: 5 Women’s Health and Beauty Products Made by WomenMay 12-18 is National Womenโs Health Week. As the saying goes, behind every great company is a great woman. Or we should say, a lot of great women. Nearly 4 out of 10 businesses in the U.S. are owned by women. These women-owned businesses employ more than 12 million people and generate $2.7 trillion a…
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Meet the Badass Women Supporting Other Women in Their Health Journeys
Read More: Meet the Badass Women Supporting Other Women in Their Health JourneysApril Wilson is no stranger to making her own mark. โMy journey started at a young age in the Army, where women are typically overlooked and outnumbered, but I established myself as an independent badass with life experience,โ she explained. Still, she couldnโt predict where her own health journey and self-taught design and production of…
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Mazda Made With Soul
Read More: Mazda Made With SoulMazda has searched the South African landscape to find people driven by an innate sense of curiosity, willing to tell their human-centric stories of success and passion for their craft. These individuals embody the true meaning of community and harmony with all things in and around us. In this series, they will be imparting their…
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The Truth About Working While Struggling with Perimenopause
Read More: The Truth About Working While Struggling with PerimenopauseOctober 18 is World Menopause Day. I began to forget words. Not complicated or unusual words, just everyday words. One afternoon I was driving with my son, and in the middle of our conversation, I forgot the word โflower.โ I laughed it off, saying I was tired and needed more sleep, and I did because…
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Staring at an Image of Yourself on Zoom Has Serious Consequences for Mental Health โ Especially for Women
Read More: Staring at an Image of Yourself on Zoom Has Serious Consequences for Mental Health โ Especially for WomenBy Roxanne Felig, University of South Florida and Jamie Goldenberg, University of South Florida In the past few years, people across the world have spent more time on video chat programs like Zoom and FaceTime than ever before. These applications mimic in-person encounters by allowing users to see the people they are communicating with. But…
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Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top Jobs
Read More: Fishing, Strip Clubs and Golf: How Male-Focused Networking in Medicine Blocks Female Colleagues From Top JobsBy Jennifer R. Grandis, University of California, San Francisco Women have been entering academic medicine at nearly the same rate as men for decades, but very few women reach the top levels of leadership. For example, as of April 2022, of the 71 U.S. cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute, only seven are…
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The US Doesnโt Have Enough Faculty to Train the Next Generation of Nurses
Read More: The US Doesnโt Have Enough Faculty to Train the Next Generation of NursesBy Rayna M. Letourneau, University of South Florida Despite a national nursing shortage in the United States, over 80,000 qualified applications were not accepted at U.S. nursing schools in 2020, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. This was due primarily to a shortage of nursing professors and a limited number of clinical…
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What Is Imposter Syndrome?
Read More: What Is Imposter Syndrome?โWhat if I donโt deserve to be here? What if I just got lucky? What if everyone finds out Iโm a fraud?โ These were the types of questions that raced through Angela Fickenโs mind when she first launched her private psychotherapy practice at the age of 28. โI was trained by the best people and…
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Career, Domestic violence, Financial health, mental health, Real women real stories, Self-Care, Work
As a Journalist Who Was an Early Domestic Violence Victim, Writing and Teaching Have Been the Best Medicine
Read More: As a Journalist Who Was an Early Domestic Violence Victim, Writing and Teaching Have Been the Best MedicineOctober is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. He was a lawyer with a red Alfa Romeo, a 7 handicap in golf and a new two-bedroom condo in a leafy Washington, D.C. suburb. I was a banking and pensions reporter with a spotty driving record, a shopping problem, and a studio apartment in an iffy D.C.…
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Anxiety, Career, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Fatigue, Health care professionals, mental health, Retirement, Stress
Nurses Are Leaving the Profession, and Replacing Them Wonโt Be Easy
Read More: Nurses Are Leaving the Profession, and Replacing Them Wonโt Be EasyBy Rayna M Letourneau, University of South Florida The fourth wave of COVID-19 is exacerbating the ongoing crisis for the nursing workforce and has led to burnout for many nurses. As a result, many are quitting their jobs in substantial numbers all across the country, with 62% of hospitals reporting a nurse vacancy rate higher…
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Women Face Motherhood Penalty in STEM Careers Long Before They Actually Become Mothers
Read More: Women Face Motherhood Penalty in STEM Careers Long Before They Actually Become MothersBy Sarah Thebaud, University of California Santa Barbara and Catherine Taylor, University of California Santa Barbara The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Unfounded assumptions about how motherhood affects worker productivity can harm women’s careers in science, technology, engineering and math long before they are โ or even…
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Naomi Osakaโs Withdrawal From the French Open Highlights How Prioritizing Mental Wellness Goes Against the Rules, on the Court and Off
Read More: Naomi Osakaโs Withdrawal From the French Open Highlights How Prioritizing Mental Wellness Goes Against the Rules, on the Court and OffBy Dorothy Chin, University of California, Los Angeles and Tamra Burns Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she would withdraw from the French Open after she was fined and threatened with being disqualified for not speaking to media during the tournament to protect her mental health. French Open…
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Budget, Career, caregiving, Childcare, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Gender, Gender diversity, Lgbtq, Parenting, Transgender, Work
Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic โ and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to โNormalโ
Read More: Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic โ and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to โNormalโBy Derek P. Siegel, University of Massachusetts Amherst Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt or foster, and some use egg or sperm cells they’ve frozen โ usually before starting hormone replacement therapy. As a sociologist who studies inequality and…
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Roe v. Wade Gave American Women a Choice About Having Children โ Hereโs How That Changed Their Lives
Read More: Roe v. Wade Gave American Women a Choice About Having Children โ Hereโs How That Changed Their LivesBy Constance Shehan, University of Florida The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a Mississippi state law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, much earlier than the 24-week threshold generally established by the pivotal abortion rights case Roe v. Wade in 1973. Roe v. Wade granted women the right to…
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At What Age Are People Usually Happiest? New Research Offers Surprising Clues
Read More: At What Age Are People Usually Happiest? New Research Offers Surprising CluesBy Clare Mehta, Emmanuel College If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it be? Would you choose to be nine years old, absolved of life’s most tedious responsibilities, and instead able to spend your days playing with friends and practicing your times tables? Or would you choose your…
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Women Frequently Experience Sexual Harassment at Work, yet Few Claims Ever Reach a Courtroom
Read More: Women Frequently Experience Sexual Harassment at Work, yet Few Claims Ever Reach a CourtroomBy Joseph A. Seiner, University of South Carolina Sexual harassment allegations against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including at least three from current or former aides, are a reminder of just how commonplace unwanted touching, propositioning and other inappropriate behavior is in the workplace. My recent research explores the prevalence of toxic work environments โ…
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Why a Stimulus Package Matters to Women
Read More: Why a Stimulus Package Matters to WomenIf you’re a woman, you probably know what it feels like to juggle work, childcare, housework and your own well-being. It’s a lot all at once. But, what can be even harder is if you no longer have to juggle work as part of your responsibilities, but you still need income. Since the beginning of…
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Budget, Career, caregiving, Cleaning, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Financial health, Parenting, Retirement, Work
Women Risk Losing Decades of Workplace Progress Due to Covid-19 โ Hereโs How Companies Can Prevent That
Read More: Women Risk Losing Decades of Workplace Progress Due to Covid-19 โ Hereโs How Companies Can Prevent ThatBy Stephanie M.H. Moore, Indiana University American women have made strides in the workplace over the past half-century in terms of earnings, employment and careers – in no small part thanks to the efforts of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The COVID-19 pandemic risks undoing many of these gains in a matter of months.…
