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...

Work It: Open Front Blazer

Macy's is having its Friends & Family event until May 4th! And since I love good sales and beautiful work fashion, today's pick is this Nine West open-front blazer in blush! The color is perfect for Spring and Summer, the stretch fabric keeps your lunch under...

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How to Lead At Work When You’re Not the Boss

The other day when I picked up my little two-foot nothing kindergartner, I caught her cute self in the midst of a group of much taller, older first-graders, explaining to them why they should absolutely take a trip to the Boston Children museum, lest their whole life...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy happy Sunday everyone! It's Sunday morning, and I can actually for the first time in a long time apply this one adjective to my household: QUIET! Everyone is sleeping, or pretending to, and it feels like Christmas morning, except my gift is being able to sip on...

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L’Edito: To All My Goal-Diggers Out There…

"I'm gonna have to charge you a little more rent than Vivian...because I've got this beauty course I'm looking into and I'm not gonna be there that much, you know? 'Cause you just can't turn tricks forever. You gotta have a goal. Do you have a goal?" Pretty Woman,...

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Week-End Pick: Culottes

Culottes are definitely in for Spring, and while many of us are wondering what the heck a culotte is, for starters, all we could see on the latest runways were these short pants that apparently were all the rage in the Victorian era (and who wouldn't bring Victorian...

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Work It: Poplin Skirt

Florals are one of the big trends this Spring (aren't they every Spring?), hence the reason why my Work It pick today is blooming all over...This Marc by Marc Jacobs Jerry Rose poplin skirt is not your grandma's flowery skirt, what with its flattering A-line...

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