We’ve Been Teaching Women to Defend Themselves All Wrong
When I started looking for a self-defense class, what I was really looking for was one that would teach me how to fight. I go on solo runs most mornings and often walk home alone in the dark from the...
View ArticleOprah’s Literary Agent Created This Speaking Tour Filled With Amazing Women...
This October, the women-focused speaking tour, Together Live, which began last year in six cities nationwide, is coming to DC—and bringing with it women thought leaders and storytellers like...
View ArticleDoes DC Really Need Women-Only Co-Working Space The Wing?
The Wing is coming to DC, and women in the city are wrestling with how to feel about it. Part slick coworking space, part exclusive social club, the women-only group has been a phenomenon in New York...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Be a Woman in Washington: 62 Women Explain
Look around our town today and your eyes will land on example after example of some ladyboss getting it done. Forget Congress (where, ahem, a record number of female lawmakers were seated this year)....
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Be a Woman Who Runs a Construction Site
Michelle Cousté, 26, assistant superintendent at Clark Construction, is managing the build-out of Ashburn’s Metro station. “I get here when the crews get in, at 6 am. I walk around, check on...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Get Your Tubes Tied at Age 33
It took Kelly Carnes, a PR executive and entrepreneur, more than a decade to find a doctor who would help her live child-free. “I frankly don’t understand how people can afford to have kids in DC. A...
View ArticleYes, There Are Women of Color in the DAR
Reisha Raney had never listened to a podcast when she decided to start one last year. A mathematician who runs a systems-engineering company in Fort Washington, Raney has, as a side project, spent...
View ArticleThe Washington Football Team You Should Be Rooting For
They play football, and they wear burgundy and gold. But that’s where the similarities between the D.C. Divas of the Women’s Football Alliance and the Washington Commanders end: As wide receiver Lois...
View ArticleMeet the 2022 Washington Women in Journalism Award Winners
Each year, Washingtonian helps sponsor the Washington Women in Journalism Awards to recognize outstanding reporters and editors for their work across all forms of media. This year’s winners have led...
View ArticleSeptember 2022: Style Setters
FEATURES In Fine Form For 41 years, Washingtonian has joined with the DC chapter of the American Institute of Architects to recognize outstanding work from local residential architects. Here are 2022’s...
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