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...

Week-End Pick: Fedora Hats

I'm a hat girl, always been, always will be. And when the temperatures drop, rain threatens to mess up the 'do, I'm prepared haha. Well, this season, I've been obsessed with fedoras, for their edgy yet refined elegance, and their undeniable versatility. They're...

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How to Enjoy Everyday At Work Like It’s Friday

I woke up this morning feelin' all good, with a pep in my step, and this despite the fact that I didn't hear the alarm, the kids were stuck to their beds, and my hair was not cooperating...But oh hey, it's Friday, and Fridays have that special kind of feeling... Yet...

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Work It: Midi Skirt

Well, we're not exactly having a skirt weather here in the Northeast, but I fell in absolute fashion lust with this this bouquet pleat midi skirt from Nordstrom! Loving the full (and forgiving) ladylike silhouette, not to mention the romantic look of this A-line...

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How Do You Define Success?

Fortune Magazine published an article earlier this year entitled "What successful women want in 2015", in which women from Fortune's Insider Network shared goals for this new year. As things like diversity or promoting other women were sorely missing from the list,...

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Coffee Break: Being a Vegetarian at Work

Being vegetarian at work can be a challenge. From team lunches to group outings, finding something, anything suitable to eat, not to mention reminding everyone turkey is meat, eating (and eating well) at the office, as a vegetarian, can be a meaty task (no pun...

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Work It: Textured Jacquard Top

I received an email alert of great sales at Reiss today, and sure enough, there are lots of great discounts on the site! My pick today is this Anja navy/cream textured jacquard top, on sale for $84! Loving the classical nautical palette of navy and white, as well as...

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When Work Gets In The Way of Your Relationship

I discussed earlier dating for the successful professional woman. Yet for those of us who've been off the dating scene for some time, we tend to be more worried about the balance between work and marriage. At a time when work is taking more and more space in our...

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Work It: Chunky Heels

I'm more of a stiletto woman, yet I've caught myself on many occasions, especially at work, being partial to chunky heels. It's the endless dilemma between comfortable and cute shoes at work, except chunky heels are not just comfortable, they're also upgrading from...

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