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Advice from a Taylor Swift ticket holder on how to get Beyoncé "Renaissance" tickets

  Advice from a Taylor Swift ticket holder on how to get Beyoncé "Renaissance" tickets I thought the hardest part of getting Taylor Swift tickets was the fact I was going to be in an airplane at the time. I purchased the in-flight Wifi and hoped for the best, expecting it to be glitchy or out of commission entirely. Once 10 a.m. rolled around, the presale started, and I was somewhere over Alabama with my family. The Wifi was actually fine; it was the presale that was the problem. As we now know, the Taylor Swift Ticketmaster presale for her upcoming "Eras" tour was a historic fiasco, so much so the Justice Department got involved . But I scored tickets (not while on the plane – more on that later) and I'd like to help you try to get seats too for what will surely be the hottest concert ticket of the summer: Beyoncé's just announced "Renaissance" world tour. There will be a ton of demand for these shows; like Swift, Beyoncé hasn't done a solo to...

Women will reclaim a good share of STEM jobs.

    Women will reclaim a good share of STEM jobs. I believe we will see more women (re)entering STEM fields in 2023, reclaiming a good share of the jobs they lost during the pandemic. This will be particularly true for fields like the life sciences, where women graduate at higher rates than men. Women disproportionately exited the workforce during Covid lockdowns as, more so than men, they assumed the role of stay-at-home caregivers . But with the introduction of more flexible work  arrangements, which make it easier for all employees to manage both family and career, women now face a job market generally more receptive to balanced life-work design. So STEM organizations have an opportunity to tap into an immense talent pool if they think carefully about the ways they can support working caregivers going forward.