Moxy Magazine

We see it in movies all the time. The main character meets someone and falls in love, but their careers are going in different directions. They can’t handle it, so they break up. At the end, one of them decides love is more important, drops everything and they live happily ever after. In an age when everyone’s encouraged to be career-driven and independent, that might sound like something that only happens in a fairy tale…. It isn’t.

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Our personalities drive so much—the friends and relationships we chose, how we interact with the world, how we spend our free time. Is it really any wonder that they also impact how good we are at our chosen professions?

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For one family, negotiations came at a price that no one could quantify: life and potential imprisonment in North Korea’s gulags.

Somewhere Inside, written by the Ling sisters, Laura and Lisa, recounts the unsettling five months in 2009 during which journalist Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by officials in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

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Somewhere along the way, women got a bad reputation as negotiators. Stereotypes portray women as worse at negotiation than men because of the way they think.

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