powerful women
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Three Women Are Competing to Be the Leader of Poland This Weekend—Here's What You Need to Know
1. This is badass.
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Queens of the Hill
Connections are currency in the nation's capital. So if you want to get in with D.C. power players, start with these in-the-know women.
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Designing Women
It's the year of the woman: The world's most powerful women are turning to fashion's new establishment, female designers, to dress them for their biggest moments.
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The View From The Top
It's good to be the boss. Three powerful women share the highs, lows, and biggest surprises of their kick-ass careers.
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Lena Dunham
The next Kathryn Bigelow
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Shelby Knox
The next Gloria Steinem
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Michelle Phan
The next Kevyn Aucoin
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Rachel Rojas
The next Eliot Ness
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Alexa von Tobel
The next Suze Orman
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Naomi Pomeroy
The next Alice Waters
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Alanna Rutherford
The next Elena Kagan
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Sheila Callaghan
The next Wendy Wasserstein
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Alex Prager
The next Annie Leibovitz
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Anjali Jaiswal
The next Erin Brockovich
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Amy Wagers
The next Marie Curie
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Kellie McCoy
The next General Petraeus
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Michelle Christensen
The next Philippe Starck
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Kimberly Ovitz
The next Donna Karan
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Ruchi Sanghvi
The next Mark Zuckerberg
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Julia Kahr
The next Warren Buffett
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The Pink Ceiling
Why do ambitious young women say they hate working for other women?
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What I Hate About Me: I Look Like The Grinch
It recently dawned on me that I am being too picky with the girls I date. After I thought about this idea in more depth, I realized that I’m really no prize, so who am I to even be picky? I decided to try an exercise that is very much against what I was taught to do. I spent 14 years being educated at a small private Quaker school. The experience was amazing, but it gave me too much self worth. I distinctly remember a story about an I.L.A.C sign that hangs invisibly around our necks. I.L.A.C stands for I Am Loveable And Capable. It’s taken me years to even buy into this—and, you know what, I still haven’t bought into it completely. The story dictates that every time someone says something hurtful, or crippling to you, a piece of your I.L.A.C sign is broken off. If we go around hurting one another too much, then we are all left broken, with no sense of I.L.A.C. But, I’ve been too picky with the girls I want to date. Perhaps I am alone because I don’t deserve anyone beautiful, special, or intelligent. So, instead of looking in the mirror tonight and telling myself that I deserve someone great (I.L.A.C), I will go over all of the things I don’t like about myself. If I humble myself, and realize that I’m not that special, perhaps my standards, which are impossibly high, will come down and I will be more forgiving when a strand of a girl’s hair seems out of place. So, here are the things I don’t like about myself and how I will correct them:
