On the Invisible Summer Gender Bill (and What to Do When You’re the One Paying It)

Summer gets sold to us as the slow season. Out-of-office replies go up, calendars clear out, and for one hot minute, everything is supposed to breathe a little easier.For a lot of working mothers, it doesn't play out that way. A camp closes early. A colleague is out....

How to Make Small Career Investments that Compound After the Summer 

Every summer, many of us as working women and moms look forward to a slower pace of life: more family time, vacations, a well-deserved break,  and maybe even catching up on postponed projects and finding more time to invest in our careers… And right as the...

Praise or Pay: How to Turn Appreciation and Invisible Labor into Pay as a Working Mom

Every year on Mother's Day, organizations show their appreciation for working mothers with symbols of gratitude—thank-you cards, flowers, appreciation emails. While these are heartwarming and certainly welcome, they rarely translate into actual benefits at work....

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...

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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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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