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- Lucky rounds up 14 budget-friendly drugstore beauty products for fall.
- Naomi Alder writes for Medium about working in the tech industry and finding herself playing the stereotypical roles that others expect. And in The New York Times, a geobiology professor writes about the prevalence of sexual assault against female scientists working in the field and how it's changed the course of her research.
- Inc. gives you tips on ways to signal power with your body language, voice, and more.
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explains to The New Yorker why she is not planning on retiring anytime soon.
- Business Insider finds out what nine successful people, like Mark Cuban, Tim Ferriss, and Debbi Fields (the Mrs. Fields), wish they'd known about personal finance in their 20s.
- The New Yorker has a very honest, heartfelt essay about the writer's difficult decision whether or not to have children — and the local kids she tries to help in the meantime. New York Magazine gathers some thoughts from famous women — from Margaret Cho to Gloria Steinem — on choosing not to have kids.
- SheKnows gives advice to a woman whose boyfriend's controlling ways with money seem to be creating an abusive situation.
- Jill Lepore at The New Yorker delves into the surprising and fascinating history — and evolution — of Wonder Woman.
- Which are better for drying your hands, paper towels or hand dryers? Lifehacker tackles this eternal question — and even links to a TEDx talk about the subject. (Spoiler: paper towels are slightly better.)
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Annonn
Dear Corporettes,
I am the person who wrote in earlier this week about being over 40, and the challenges of making friends. Thank you for all of the encouragement. The kind words of those of you who responded brought tears to my eyes! I think that my main block in becoming more social is fear of rejections. I think you guys are right, most normal people would not sneer at someone for trying to make new friends, and even if someone does act all hight school mean girl at me, then that is a refletion of them, not of me. I think that I shall explore this issue further with my therapist, as well as force myself out there in the public sphere, without regard of the risk of rejection. Its really ironic that I am so sensitive about rejection in the social sphere, since I approach my career with a haters be dammed, gun ablazin attitude. If I approached my carrer with the same level of phobia and disorgazination that I approached my dating/social life I would be living in a cardboard box!!!! Oh well, I am running the Claredon Day Run tommorow, and will be getting lots of practice with my smiling and chit chat skills!!
Wildkitten
Yes! I think you should purposely do things you enjoy doing and enjoy people you are spending time with, but don’t worry so much about making new best friends. Because people are going to be busy and need to put their laundry in the dryer and their kid throws up and the library books are overdue, and so it’s gonna sometimes feel like rejection when it’s just life.
Anonymous
Yay! If this weekend doesn’t yield anything, keep doing stuff you enjoy and putting yourself out there and someday someone will bite.