Boston Globe Magazine | Women & Power

The 2021 issue

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

Meet the female power players of the Bay State, a joint project with The Commonwealth Institute.

Anuradha Yadav, cofounder of the group Women of Color Entrepreneurs, or WOCE.

Four secrets to landing venture funding. Why the smart money is on women entrepreneurs.

By Shirley Leung

Clockwise from top left: Pam Y. Eddinger, Lynn Perry Wooten, Ellen Rosenfeld, and Dr. Reshma Kewalramani.

11 executives on how they build and support successful teams — even amid crisis

As-told-to Susan Moeller

Latoyia Edwards at the NBCU Boston Media Center in Needham.

News anchor Latoyia Edwards shares why she wears braids on air

By Latoyia Edwards

The 'empathy advantage' of great women leaders

Women still make less at work. Negotiate for the pay you deserve.

By Christine Koh

Mariama White-Hammond at Boston City Hall.

Meet 4 leaders fighting for clean air, clean energy, and a healthy future

By Sarah Shemkus

Strong women can do all the things. Right?

By Jazmine Aluma

A by-the-numbers look at the Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

Grammy-winner Terri Lyne Carrington at Berklee College of Music.

Jazz can be a powerful force for gender justice, and these musicians will take you there

Terri Lyne Carrington of Berklee on an urgent movement, with seven of her favorite jazz selections by women artists.

Anita Hill testifies at a Senate confirmation hearing for Clarence Thomas in 1991.

Anita Hill: We can’t leave it to a woke new generation to end sexual harassment

Relying on Gen Zers and millennials to reform society in the future does not relieve older generations of our responsibility.

Past honorees and coverage

The 2020 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

The 2019 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

The 2018 Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts

Why women fall into the negative feedback trap

For her Babson project, Janie Carroll, a 16-year-old in Needham, planned a summer camp, including activities such as playing on a trampoline with water balloons.

What could young women accomplish if they got leadership training sooner?

How every woman can protect her financial future (and why she needs to)

Female executives discuss how motherhood has helped them on the job

How Black women are undermined at work — and what to do about it

Nearly 1 in 2 Black women report that they experience racism more at work than anywhere else. The solution is simple: Believe what we say.

5 ways to erase the gender gap at work

How every woman can protect her financial future (and why she needs to)

By Michelle Figueroa

Clockwise from top left: Laurie Leshin, president of WPI; Myechia Minter-Jordan, former CEO of The Dimock Center; Mindy S. Lubber, CEO of Ceres; and Sheila Lirio Marcelo, founder of Care.com.

What I wish I knew then: 11 tips for success from powerful female executives

Six things successful female entrepreneurs do

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The Big Reboot 2021

Clockwise from top left: Stefanie Corbin, Reeve Wood, Carolin Diaz, and Jackie Barber.

These New Englanders are building dream careers in a job market turned upside down

Six ways to manage job uncertainty, ambiguity, and disruption

A former career isn’t a waste of time and money. It’s learning

Our job-training system is stuck in the 1960s. American workers deserve better

An illustration of a group of office workers around a desk side by side with an illustration of a family at the dinner table. Goes with story about how the pandemic upended the notion of "work families."

Busting the ‘work family’ myth: Turns out your job doesn’t have to be your life

In a sense, the pandemic has returned many Americans to our agrarian roots — where the “work family” was, well, the actual family.