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...

L’Edito: Keep Calm and Be Diverse

If there's one thing the whitest, most male-dominated Oscars managed to accomplish this year, it is to spur a gigantic, inspiring wave of Diversity awareness. From Neil Patrick Harris' hilarious, yet on-point introduction "Tonight, we honor the best and...

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Coffee Break: Is It OK to Skip Happy Hour?

We've talked about proper happy hour etiquette before. Yet, what happens when happy hours doesn't exactly ring your "happy" bell? What if you perceive happy hour more as an annoying, and unpaid obligation to spend more time with work colleagues? Is it OK to skip happy...

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Week-End Pick: Check Cotton Shirt

Apparently, gingham is the It print for Spring. I remember sporting it back in the days in designs I'd probably hesitate to step out of my car in these days. Yet, I have to admit the checkered print and warmer relative of plaid has been rubbing me the right way after...

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Coffee Break: How Sexy Is Your Office? (Poll)

It's established, your office is sexy. In between overly sexy (and inappropriate) dress in the workplace (although apparently, there is an office-approved way to wear your sexiest pieces), to the interesting (and eyebrow-raising) statistics around extra-marital...

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Work It: Colorblocked Sweater Jacket

As we're preparing to (hopefully) transition from our winter garb to "springy-er" fashion, layering will become key. Hence today's Work It pick, this perfect layering piece, impossibly elegant long color blocked sweater jacket from Talbots. Love, love, love the...

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Snooze Much? There’s An App for That

I had to smile when I read about this app, as it was speaking directly to me (and to many of you too..). For all the chronically late, or those with a milder time adherence disorder, this is your app, ok? The iCukoo alarm clock app will have you donate to one of 5...

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Coffee Break: Got Gender-Equal Footwear?

As an outspoken (and pretty loud) gender equality advocate, I had to blab about this. Gender equality is not just about equal pay for equal work, or equitable treatment of men and women in the workplace, or even the fact we're not just about our dresses, not even at...

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Work It: Draped Front Shirt

There's nothing like the simplicity of a white shirt for any occasion. This draped front poplin shirt from Zara is stunning in its impeccable, clean, simple style. Loving the clean crew neck cut contrasting with the sophisticated yet not-over-the-top draping in front....

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