With our various electronic devices always pinging and beeping to notify us of various developments in the world, be it a "liked" Facebook status or a breaking news alert, you wouldn't think we'd need MORE ways to gauge how well-received we were online. And yet, apparently we do. That's why Benjamin Redford invented a…

No big deal or anything, but Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Google's Local, Maps, and Location services, fielded 14 job offers when she graduated Stanford in 1999 before accepting an offer from Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin to become the company's first female engineer and only its 20th employee. So, if…

Today in research that is not that surprising but still kind of heartwarming: telling kids it's okay to make mistakes will help them do better in school.

Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night and have a conversation in hushed tones with yourself about whether driving so hard to be a success in your professional life is really worth it? Well, here's some good news for you: It's not! A new study has found that ambitious people don't necessarily come out on top.…

It doesn't take a PhD in How Shit Works Studies to understand that the notion that any of us can really "have it all" is absurd. The perfect family, the perfect career, the perfect sex life, and the perfect body are all such demanding mistresses that unless we prioritize and choose one or two, we end up with none of…

It's no longer enough for kids to work their asses off in high school so they can win the increasingly cutthroat race for the best colleges. Now there's something else to consider: the "Most Likely To Succeed" Curse.

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa has made it his mission to oppose feminism, which he defines as "the radical notion that women are men." His latest column — on why all women are essentially prostitutes — inspired us to take a look back at his mansplaining oeuvre.

According to a poll, 49% of (straight) women feel they're more successful than their significant others. But doesn't this mean they are destined for a life of cheating and misery? That is, after all, "how the world works!"

There's a part in Tiny Furniture where one confused young daughter of success tells another, "Our moms are assholes. [They're] too successful not to be." I thought of that while reading a recent profile of new New York City schools chancellor Cathie Black, who until recently was the chairwoman of Hearst magazines. …

Some of the most successful women grew up playing sports. So do girls need athletics to get ahead?

Now that George Clooney is reportedly dating Italian model/TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis (above, the couple in Milan today), we wonder why he's established a pattern of dating women much less professionally successful than himself. Let's take a tour.

The thing about the Madonna divorce is this: If you're Madonna, who can you live happily ever after with? Who doesn't make you feel, "Been there, done that"? Can she even be married? Her whole life has been built on reinvention. And maybe this problem is unique to Madonna. Marriage is not enough for her, and she's…