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Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’

By Sallie Krawcheck

It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.

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Friendships Pose Unique Challenges for Women on the Spectrum

Many autistic people have trouble making and keeping friends. This has led to the myth that they don’t want friends3. In reality, they long for friendships just like anyone else. But they face unique challenges in forming and maintaining them.

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Liz Pellicano
2017
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The Challenge of Forming Female Friendships When You’re Autistic

Painful memories of childhood along with gendered social norms can make adult friendships more complicated for neurodiverse women.

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Marianne Eloise
2021
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How We Develop Female Friendships Through Life

Most female friendships start in college and during the early years of marriage. Some women are fortunate and develop long-lasting friendships in high school or as far back as childhood. I was not one of those lucky women.

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Deborah Garratt
2021
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Our Expectations of Millennial Friendships Don’t Prepare Us for the Reality

While there can be no doubt about the power of female friendships, lately I have been wondering whether we place too much pressure on them and whether our expectations of one another are realistic.

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Poorna Bell
2019
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The Importance of Female Friendships

Whether you have a few besties or a whole goddess crew, your female friendships enhance your life in so many ways you might not even understand. No matter how strong you may be, everybody needs some sisters to lean on.

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Mia Barnes
2020
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‘At First, We Were Jealous of Each Other’: The Highs and Lows of Female Friendships

Why do female friendships tend to be more intense? And what happens when they end?

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Jen Hogan
2021
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My Friend, My Self

Female friendship is central to much recent fiction and film. What can it say about the role of relationships in identity?

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Susan Bright
2019
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The Importance of Female Friendships Among Women

Unbreakable female bonds can solidify your happiness.

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Kristen Fuller
2018
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Why Women’s Friendships Are So Complicated

Women place a premium on knowing the details of their loved ones’ lives, which can make their relationships as fraught as they are gratifying.

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Alia Wong
2018
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What Rebecca Taught Me About Faith

Tara Sophia Moore discusses her experience of sharing the news of her pregnancy with a close friend and that friend's issues with her own pregnancy in the months that followed.

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Tara Sophia Mohr
2016
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