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...

Work It: Tie-Neck Blouse

In line with my hunt for festive tops for the office, I'm in fashion lust with this simple Nine West sleeveless tie-neck blouse from Macy's. Loving the simplicity of this top that can go from the office to the holiday party in a cinch. To make it even better, it's...

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Why We Need to Talk About Race at Work

Defining our times as racially charged is an understatement. In the midst of allegations of police violence, deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, many of us, regardless of racial affiliation, can no longer breathe comfortably. Race is everywhere, and...

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Coffee Break: App-controlled Coffee Maker

It's no secret that I love apps and coffee, and what's better than combining any of anyone's two lustful passions...Like in this Mr Coffee app-controlled coffee maker. Yes, you heard right, a coffee maker you can control from your Apple or Android device, as you're...

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Work It: Sleeveless Jumpsuit

I have been eyeing the jumpsuit trend for quite some time, not really sure if the trend would prove worth my fashionable while. As it turns out, it is...Hence today's pick, this sleeveless Trina Turk jumpsuit that is polished enough for work, yet perfect for an...

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Why Work Will Not Keep You Happy (And What Will)

  Happiness is a decision. And happiness at work is a hard, overrated one. We expect to spend upwards of eight hours chained to a desk, computer or other stationary device, dealing with different people with different moods, appearances and energies, whom we...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week-end. Dear hubby, the kids and I came down to New York for the week-end to visit our in-laws and show the little ones all the City...

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Happy Ugly Christmas Sweater Day: My Week-End Pick

Today is National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day (yes, there is such a thing, it was even on the TODAY show this morning!). And in honor of all the ugly Christmas sweaters we've all been gifted at some point or another, my week-end pick is this ASOS holiday sweater in...

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Coffee Break: Can You Wear Sequins To Work?

I've been spotting an increasing number of ladies sporting sequins, and other sparkly touches, as part of their workwear, especially at office holiday parties.  If you had asked me a few years back, while I was still in uber-sonservative, client-focused Public...

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Work It: Bow-Back Blouse

With the slew of holiday parties and office events this season, I've been on the hunt for festive, elegant tops that would still be work-appropriate. Hence today's pick, this elegant bow-back blouse from New York & Company. Loving the classic simplicity of this...

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