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The Big Night Out — & The Even Bigger Risk Of Mixing Alcohol & Cocaine

If Your SAD Symptoms Aren’t Shifting, Get Distracted

“But Then I Met Cara”: Women On Finding Love While Chronically Ill

“I Thought ‘I’m Not Someone Who Gets HIV'”...

“I felt like I was a lesser person. I felt like I was dirty. I felt like I deserved it somehow.” Victoria Roscow, 30 and from Manchester, UK, learned o

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10 Women On Getting A HPV Diagnosis After Their First Cervical Ca...

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Salary Story: Now I’m Debt-Free, I’ve Stopped Chasing...

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Salary Story: It Took Years To Mentally Recover From A Toxic Manager

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R29 Career Advice

So You Got Bad Vibes At The Job Interview — Now What?

Landing a job interview is a win in itself. In the UK, research estimates as many as 76% of people will want a job change this year. Especially in this tou

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I Was Always The Late Friend — Until I Was Confronted About It

I’ve always been a late person in my personal life. My mum is a late person, too. Rushing around the house 10 minutes after we should have left was often

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5 Women On How Maternity Pay Has Affected Their Career

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R29 Editors On How They’re Protecting Their Peace In 2025

There’s plenty of pressure at the top of a new year to implement changes — changes that are going to make you shiny, new, better. It’s all ra

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Rhabdo: The Exercise-Induced Condition You’ve Probably Never Hear...

Anyone else returning to the gym? It is January, after all. Following a break from exercise, it’s normal to hurt after your first session back — there?

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Struggling To Get Back To Job Hunting? Do A “Career Audit”

Coming back to work if you had the festive period off is never easy, but coming back to a job you truly hate, are done with, and spent a chunk of last year

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The Best Career Advice From R29’s Salary Stories In 2024

Talking about salaries is important. It’s how we know what to ask for and how to ask for it. It’s also how we know what boundaries to have. I w

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I Cut My 7-Hours-A-Day Screen Time In Half — & Got My Life Back

“Me when I put my phone down” reads the meme, the text superimposed on a picture showing an outline of a person filled with gold light, standing in a f

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Salary Story: A Breakup Pushed Me To Change Jobs

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Don’t Get Fly Trapped By Your Ex’s Text This Holiday Season

You’re well rested, full of cheese and crackers, tired of your uncle’s jokes and a little bored of all the holiday films. Ping! Suddenly, disturbin

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“I Could Switch Off The Agony”: Women & Their Relationship With C...

The day before Rachel*, 30, went to get fitted for a hormonal coil in 2022, the nurse advised her to take co-codamol an hour beforehand (usually painkiller

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Where The Hell Has Everyone’s Social Etiquette Gone?

Something has changed. When I get on the train to go to work, people are fighting to get into the carriage before allowing passengers to get off first. Whe

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We Stopped Hosting At Home — & Our Friendships Suffered

A common complaint among my friends is that no one throws house parties anymore. Remember those? Music playing at a level that would annoy neighbours, bodi

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The 59 Most Erotic Books You Will Ever Read

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Salary Story: I Fought For A Pay Rise Over 6 Months…& Won

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6 R29 Editors On The Ritualistic Things They Do To Combat Winter ...

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Alcohol & Culture

I’m A “Moderate Drinker” & No, I Won’t Have Another (Even Though ...

As I usually don’t drink a lot when I have alcohol, I’ll often describe myself as being “not a big drinker” if someone asks why I’m not having an

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Micro Retirements: The Answer To Our Burnout?

If there’s one thing that unites us, it’s the desire to take a break from work. Even if you love your job, there are always going to be moments when th

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14 Women On The One Expense They Could Give Up But Won’t

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How To End A Date When You Realise It’s Not Going Anywhere

Often during a first date, you’re just waiting for a “spark,” connection, or literally any sign that justifies you spending you

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Are We All Secretly Failing At The Winter Arc?

You’ve likely heard of the “winter arc” but if you haven’t, let me fill you in because you’re already late. Since the beginning of October, you s

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Trump’s Victory Poses A Very Real Threat To Abortion Access In Th...

Kamala Harris won’t be the first woman president of the US. The US election result that women — especially Black women and women of colour — around t

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“She Saved My Life”: 5 Women On Learning To Reach Out...

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