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...

The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy Sunday! This is the last Sunday of 2014, can you believe it? As we get ready to close this year, I'm sharing one more time the news that made me smile, laugh, and go "shut the front door" this week: CNN rounds up the leading women of 2014, and each and every one...

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My 10 Favorite After-Christmas Sales!

Hi everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed Christmas, and gearing up for the New Year! As we're still in a celebratory mood, here are my favorite 10 after-Christmas sales: Ann Taylor is having a 60% off sale this week-end only (use code ANN60); ASOS is having up to 50% off...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy Sunday beautiful people! It's the last week-end before Christmas, and I hope you are taking the time to enjoy these last moments of the year, in whatever form or way is best for you and yours. My family has suffered a great loss this past Friday, and as we...

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There’s an App for that: Teux Deux

I love to-do lists, I love making them, scratching things out of them, lengthen them, shorten them, all the while keeping them organized, pretty, and manageable. Well, I think there's now an app for all of that...Teuxdeux is a simple app (yes, there is such a thing),...

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Work It: Peplum Sweater

Cusp is having its December sale, with up to 40% discounts online and in store, plus 2-day free shipping! I'm loving this Ted Baker Knit Peplum sweater in winter white, perfect for work or any festive occasion these holidays. The round neckline, the long sleeves, the...

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