Katie worked at an events planning company, helping her boss design and execute some of the city's biggest and most important parties, weddings, and fundraisers. She was good at her job--creative and organized--and she'd been promoted from intern to assistant to full-on planner in less than six months. When it...

When Heather began her career as a literary agent, she'd often greet her clients much as she would her friends: with a loose hug or a quick kiss on the cheek. She did not discriminate with her affections; it didn't matter if the client was a much older gentleman or...

La scène suivante est tirée de la série télévisée Mad Men.

Roger Sterling: "Ma mère disait toujours 'fais attention à ce que tu souhaites, cela pourrait bien se réaliser. Et ensuite les gens deviennent jaloux et essaie de te voler'".

Don Draper: "Je ne pense pas que ce soit...

There is a scene in television's Mad Men.

Roger Sterling: "My mother always said, 'be careful what you wish for, because you'll get it. And then people get jealous and try to take it away from you.'"

Don Draper: "I don't think that's how it goes."

That byplay -- from...

Sari had been working in book publishing for a long time. And she was the first to admit: She preferred to work with women. In her experience, women were far superior to men as editors. They were better suited to collaborating with writers. They were more patient, more nurturing. "Women...

Avant que le deuxième fils de Lori et James ne naisse à l'automne dernier, le couple a échafaudé un plan. Après son court congé maternité, Lisa retournerait travailler comme conseillère technique, tandis que James quitterait son poste d'avocat pour rester à la maison avec les garçons.

"Nous voulions tous les...

Before Lori and James's second son was born last fall, they devised a plan. After her short maternity leave, Lisa would return to work as a tech consultant while James would quit his job as a lawyer to stay home with the boys. "We knew that we wanted one of...

Julie always expected she'd quit her job as a technical recruiter as soon as she and her husband, Billy, had kids. Her mom had been a stay-at-home, and so were most of her friends. But once their first child, Mia, was born, Julie began to rethink the notion. Mia was...

Joanna had known for months that her job was in jeopardy. As creative director of a well-read city magazine, she was under tremendous pressure to create magazine covers that sold well on the newsstand and sparked advertiser interest. And although she didn't believe the fault was entirely hers, sales for...

9-year-old Harry knew his mother's rules, as age-old as the act of parenting itself: No ball playing in the house. And yet he couldn't seem to help himself. Again and again, his mother, Lisa, would find Harry tossing a baseball in their small galley kitchen or kicking around a soccer...

Change for women over the last decade is in the books. Roles have transformed. Opportunities have exploded. And a future of choice and empowerment is locked in.

For men, that future is a lot less certain.

A time of female transformation has been a time of male accommodation. The adjustment...

The bed and desk both want me.
The windows, the view, the idea of Paris.

With my minutes, I chip away at the idiom,
an unmarked pebble in a fast current.

-- Rachel Zucker, from "After Baby After Baby"

I've never liked the term "working...

Alex, a paralegal at a large firm, knew that her female department mates had been talking about her. Though she was the newest hire among them, she'd recently gotten a small promotion, which had been announced at an all-staff meeting. Since then, she felt as if the other paralegals had...

In the final, hyper-violent scene of the movie Kick-Ass, Hit-Girl, a 10-year-old vigilante in a purple wig played by Chloe Grace Moretz takes down more than a dozen armed men using two shot guns and a variety of exotic fighting techniques. As Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" plays in the background,...

Depuis 20 ans, Amanda est une recruteuse très demandée pour des entreprises de technologie, et depuis peu, elle assure la supervision d'une douzaine d'autres recruteurs. Recruter peut se révéler très compétitif - la plupart des recruteurs sont payés à la commission - mais c'est aussi un travail de...

Amanda has been an in-demand recruiter for tech companies for twenty years, most recently as a supervisor to a dozen other recruiters. Recruiting can be highly competitive -- most work strictly on commission -- but also collaborative. She's often helped co-workers, as well as her reports, find leads, and they've...

Eight-year-old Henry lied about everything. It absolutely infuriated his mother, Sophie, if mostly because she couldn't figure out why he was doing it. Some of the lies she understood, as they'd clearly been issued to avoid mild trouble or reprimand, like the lies about whether he'd made his bed or...

When I met Sandy, a rising executive at a big-time digital media company, she had two children under two years old. She had been climbing ladders for more than a decade -- since the day she left college, basically -- but she still loved every minute of it. Sure, she...

Nine-year-old Joshua was being, as his mom described, "a bit of a jerk." Over dinner after the first day of their week-long ski trip he told her, actually, he didn't really like skiing, even though they'd been skiing together for years. Even though just a few hours earlier he'd been...

Vacation week was drawing to a close -- and Jamie couldn't be more ecstatic. She felt guilty, but she was desperate for her boys, six and nine, to go back to school. Their week had been a nonstop parade of activity: bowling, ice-skating, play dates, lunches out, family games, family...