When I was still in the magazine business, I commissioned a study with an organization of human resource managers about the potential pitfalls during a job interview. It revealed that the decision not to hire is often made within the first five to fifteen minutes of an interview. You need...

For 14 years I was the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and along with the responsibility came some pretty sweet perks, compliments of my company. Two of my favorites? A private chef, who cooked for my family and me five nights a week, and a weekly session with a masseuse, whose...

Like many women, I've been riveted by the scandal involving General Petraeus. And like many women, I'm sure, I've catalogued and dissected the mistakes made by Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley, the two females at the center of the brouhaha. Juicy scandals can provide...

Even if you didn't watch the presidential debate on Tuesday, I'm sure you're now familiar with Mitt Romney's phrase, "binders full of women." He used it describe the efforts he supposedly made to recruit women for his cabinet when he was governor of Massachusetts. The phrase quickly went viral, giving...

Dear Shiloh,

I saw a picture of your new short haircut yesterday and more of that cool new look you've been rocking -- boy jeans, camouflage cargo pants, neck ties, hoodies and fedoras -- and I wanted to tell you how much I love it. You are clearly...

When we first launched Cosmopolitan's Practice Safe Sun (PSS) campaign in 2006, it was in response to some shocking statistics I'd just learned: Melanoma had become the second most frequently reported cancer in women in their 20s. It was only later, though, that I began to hear the stories behind...

At Cosmo, our only disappointment in yesterday's Massachusetts Senate race is that we lost an opportunity to have another woman in the Senate -- there are way too few and we'd like to see more.

We don't know for sure what Scott Brown might do as the new Senator,...