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 Tips to Date as a Successful Professional Woman

Dating as a successful professional woman can be challenging. And when I say challenging, I mean, CHALLENGING! Between just having the time to date (not to mention prep time, finances and sheer willingness to interact with the other sex), and surmounting all the...

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Work It: Stretch-crepe dress

Happy New Year everyone! To start off the week on a fashionable note, my pick today is this DVF printed stretch-crepe dress from Net-a-Porter, which happens to be having an ongoing New Year sale with some pretty serious discounts. As a big fan of DVF, I'm in love with...

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How to Balance Your Job and Your Side Hustle

There's a new balancing act out there, and it's no longer the perennial, beaten to death by the media, work-life balance. For many millenials of our generation, among all those born with an enterprising spirit, juggling day job and side hustle has become the new...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Happy first Sunday of 2015! I hope everyone is well, and starting this new year in great spirits! 2014 has definitely been a milestone year for me, and I can't thank enough each and everyone of...

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3 New Ways to Start Fresh at Your Old Job

That's it, 2015 is here, new year, new (mostly failed) resolutions, and unless you've secured yourself your dream job for the New Year, you're back, or getting ready to be back, at no less than...your old job! Same ol' (untidy) desk, unfinished projects, and great...

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Work It: Lace Crewneck Sweatshirt

Lace is definitely in this year, hence today's pick of this NYDJ embroidered lace crew neck sweatshirt from Nordstrom. Loving the mix of casual and sophisticated in this sweet raglan-sleeve sweatshirt. This contemporary beauty is on sale for $58.80 at Nordstrom! Other...

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You Don’t Need A New Job, You Need a New Mindset

The advent of the New Year, and its slew of failed resolutions, is prime time for questioning our current careers, jobs, bosses, or even how the mess on our desks is blocking success in our career. We want  a new start, a new "us", as fast as it takes to say "Happy...

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Work It: Peplum Hem Midi Dress

Hiii everyone! I've taken a few days off (not exactly by choice), and am back for my Work It feature (which I've greatly missed). Today's pick is this peplum hem midi dress from ASOS, that immediately caught my eye. Love, love, love the original peplum hem on this...

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