Why Hard Work Is Not Enough: What Women Should Know About Meritocratic Systems (and How to Beat Them)

As a working woman, the idea of meritocracy may have been introduced earlier on in life to you. From popular advice to widely accepted success principles, merit-based guidance may have followed you all throughout your education and career.  “Work hard. Be...

Are You Being Financially Discounted at Work? How to Recognize It, and Correct It

Have you ever walked out of a compensation conversation feeling like something didn’t quite add up?Not because you underperformed.Not because you lacked results.But because the offer felt… cautious. Conservative. Tempered.As if someone quietly adjusted the forecast on...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season

It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...

The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor

Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...
Corporate Catwalk: Bowery Dress

Corporate Catwalk: Bowery Dress

Nothing like a tailored, modern dress with a great fit to make you feel like you can do just about anything (with our without the help of massive amounts of coffee, but I digress...). A tailored, modern dress like this Bowery dress from OfMercer. Loving the tailored...

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Casual Friday Pick: Cropped Pants

Casual Friday Pick: Cropped Pants

As Spring is (slowly) getting here, and we can start showing a little more skin, cropped pants are officially back in! hence today's Casual Friday pick, this pair of "perfect" cropped pants from Talbots. Love the versatility of these pants that you can pair with...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

This is our weekly career and lifestyle news update, where we round up exciting news of the last week and we let you have it…ahem, news-wise that is… Think of it as your career gossiping section on steroids… And while you’re at it,  follow us on Facebook, Twitter,IG,...

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7 Facts You May Not Know About #EqualPayDay

7 Facts You May Not Know About #EqualPayDay

It's Equal Pay Day! And while we're not exactly toasting to women being compensated less than men for equal work, it does symbolize how far we still have to go to be treated fairly in the workplace. In honor of raising more awareness to the (sad) fact that women have...

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Week-End Pick: Chambray Shirt

Week-End Pick: Chambray Shirt

It's the week-end baby! And in honor of relaxing (in style of course), my pick is this  roll-tab sleeve chambray shirt.  Love the relaxed, all-day comfort fit of this shirt that takes you from the easy Saturday morning brunch to the kids' birthday party... The point...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

This is our weekly career and lifestyle news update, where we round up exciting news of the last week and we let you have it…ahem, news-wise that is… Think of it as your career gossiping section on steroids… And while you’re at it,  follow us on Facebook, Twitter,IG,...

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