Every question, answered

This is the most uncomfortable true thing I am willing to publish under my own name, and it has been stuck in my mind for a long time. The leave gets discussed. The law gets discussed. The return does not. There has… more

This is the question I get asked most often, so let me answer it the way I actually answer it in person. I use help, a lot. That is the whole secret, and I am not embarrassed by it. I try to… more

First, the truth nobody says out loud: it is only a very few women who are not serious about their jobs. Most of the women I have worked with are deeply serious, and most of them feel exactly this guilt. So you… more

I have seen this manager many times. The one who, in the name of treating everyone the same, refuses to think about whether the offsite venue in an industrial area is safe to commute to. The one who gets irritated by a… more

I am going to do something different with this one. I am going to tell you that I do not have a good answer, because I think the honest "I do not know" is worth more than a confident lie. I have… more