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...

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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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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