Presenting 100 powerhouse women executives and C-suite leaders who are beating the odds to rise to the upper echelons of Corporate America. ...

Leverage Your Network A powerful letter of recommendation can propel a woman on the path to the C-suite. The recommendation reinforces the narrative she offers and the answers she provides in her interview or performance review (if seeking a promotion), says Kathleen Quinn Votaw, CEO of Denver-based...

Getting your affairs in order can be daunting—but worth it By Pat Olsen When Victoria Pelletier, 46, a managing director at Accenture, and her wife divorced in 2010, Pelletier “gave her everything,” she says. During their marriage, the executive had borne two children, and post-split had tried...

The complicated relationship between Black women and health-care providers by Mary Stutts Imagine being in a relationship in which you don’t believe you can trust your partner and feel unseen, unheard, and completely misunderstood. That is the relationship Black women have with health-care. To dissect the issue, we...

Bringing Inclusion to Snacking When Brittany Charlton realized, at 18, that she had a peanut and treenut allergy, she didn’t want to be deprived of her favorite snacks. So the Toronto native came up with her own peanut-free recipes. A few years later, she decided to turn...

Do I Have to Keep Up with My Boss’s Work Hours? Dear DW, The head of sales promotion at my firm is a self-proclaimed early bird, churning out emails at 7 a.m. Do I need to keep up to be seen as a team player? Signed, Late Bird Losing...

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