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...

5 Reasons Why You Need To Hire A Coach

I recently hired a coach to help me through some transitions in my life. Now for most independent, can-do-it-all-and-still-look-good, ambitious women out there, asking for help is already a stretch. Now, asking, looking, and paying for guided help, most times with...

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Work It: Contrast Piping Pantsuit

I like suits that mix professional conservatism with a bit of funky edge, like this contrast piping belted pantsuit from Macy's. Loving the notched collar jacket and straight-fit pants, as well as the flattering belt to match! The alternating black and khaki colors...

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Work It: Collared Shift Dress

Today's Work It pick is this easy, somewhat funky collared shift dress from ASOS. I like the deconstructed silhouette of this dress that is versatile enough to be merchandised from the office to after-hours. This dress is $40.35 at Asos! I would "merchandise" this...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy Sunday! The weather is still beautiful (not) in the Northeast, Oscar night with all its diversity (or lack thereof) is abuzz in the media (as we're wondering who's going to trip this year), and we're ready to take a chill pill before work starts again tomorrow....

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L’Edito: And the Oscar Goes to Diversity (Not)

Sunday night is Oscar night on ABC! Even before any of the Golden Statues are distributed, the media is abuzz with one of the most lacking characteristics of this year's event: Diversity! So much so that protests are planned over the lack of diversity among Academy...

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Week-End Pick: Overalls

I just skyped my sister, and saw my little niece sporting the cutest of overalls. Speaking of overalls, they're actually coming back to a meeting room near you, as sported by model Alexa Chung recently! While I am not ready to roll into my next meeting in a pair of...

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