By: Lisa Curtis

Originally published on the 85 Broads Forbes.com blog.

Now that the ladder of success has been reduced to splinters, the question remains: what does “success” mean in the 21st century and how do we achieve it?


There used to be a ladder to success. It was the college→good job→marriage→house→family→cushy retirement. Sure, not everyone made it, there were a few broken rungs near the bottom but...

Anne Doyle, PC member of 85 Broads, writes on her Forbes blog:

Women Are Not “Guys” and Men Are Not the “Norm”

May. 12 2011   

We’ve had three stunning examples in less than a week of the cultural headwinds that women are still up against, ranging from the need to “spin” Hillary’s body language, photo-shopping her out of of history and crediting only “the guys” for the complex, clandestine operation that closed the...

 

85 Broads to have its own blog space on Forbes.com!

We are excited to announce the launch of our very own blog on Forbes.com through  a fabulous new partnership with our friends at ForbesWoman!   

This is a great opportunity for members of 85 Broads to provide the intelligent, ambitious, professional woman's perspective on news events, underreported topics, stories that...

In the past year I've spoken to dozens of people who've been facing quarter-life crises in their twenties. Simply put, they hate their jobs. And given that we tend to spend most of our waking hours at our jobs, they kind of hate their lives, too.

But aren't your early to late twenties supposed to be when you're lofty and idealistic and in the prime of your life? Well, not so much...