She made a declaration. Then life intervened. An honest accounting of ambition, a more tempered pace, and why that isn't the same as giving up.
When everything changed at once, she didn't spiral. She got curious. On the survival strategy that's carried one woman through every sea change.
She made a declaration. Then life intervened. An honest accounting of ambition, a more tempered pace, and why that isn't the same as giving up.
When everything changed at once, she didn't spiral. She got curious. On the survival strategy that's carried one woman through every sea change.
Life is short. Too short to not love who you love, do the work you’re meant to do or make a difference where you can.
Betsy Polk and Maggie Ellis Chotas have been co-presidents of their company for 13 years. Learn more about how their job-sharing partnership works.
This move may be an exercise in resilience — at least at the outset — but it’s also an opportunity to take stock of my life and where it is heading.
Prohibited from attending high school, Aletta Jacobs found a workaround and became the Netherlands' first woman with a medical degree. But her gutsiness didn't end there.
This industrial engineer's advice for winning in a male-dominated field: Choose your attitude, "and let your work show who you are."
"Why in the world we encourage kids to keep running along this path without pausing to figure out what it is they want to study and why they're going to school in the first place?"
"It doesn't hurt a gal's femininity to ride to her man's job in a baby blue convertible she's paid for herself."
Former Google executive Stephanie Tilenius has some words of advice for other women who are trying to do something that’s never been done before.
A thirst for knowledge led Maria Molfino down a winding career path. If she knew then what she does now, it wouldn't have taken so long.
Debbie Sterling was worried a rejection from the tech establishment would doom her business, but when she made connections outside the boys' club, everything clicked into place.
Photographer who shot this viral hit opens up about how the photo came to be and what it means to him.
She never knew how much her words meant to me that day, but her encouragement was exactly what I needed to keep me pushing forward.
May this Gutsy Broad rest in peace, and may she inspire other women to live with purpose, focus and gusto.
'Story' magazine founder Julie Wilson on what it's really like to be a publishing industry entrepreneur.
The 231-piece set celebrates the accomplishments of Hubble Telescope developer Nancy G. Roman, software engineer Margaret Hamilton, and astronauts Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.