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: Moto Wrap Dress

It's no secret I love wrap dresses (check out my prior wrap dresses selections here and here). Today's selection is also a wrap dress, with a modern moto edge, that is. Loving this long-sleeve moto wrap dress from White House Black Market, which combines a classic...

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Are You Trapped In Your Career?

It's Monday morning, it's pouring rain outside, you can't find your umbrella and you're late for work. And of course, traffic is crazy and your hair is starting to frizz. All of a sudden, your throat feels tight, your palms get sweaty, and you feel...trapped! Trapped...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is having a great week-end! The temperatures are dipping lower and lower around this side of the blogosphere, and as were cozying up under the covers this morning, here are the news headlines that made me smile, tick, and go "shut the front...

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Week-End Pick: Leather Pants

My inner biker chic girl is calling, and I'm seriously into leather this Fall/winter. Yet I'm no longer 20 (in mind, body or shopping tolerance), and need to find pieces that cater to my still untamed yet "grown-folk" side. Hence today's pick, this 7-for-all-Mankind...

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Work It: Asymmetrical Zip Skirt

I was at Target the other day, and absolutely fell in love with their selection of skirts. Especially this Mossimo knit asymmetrical zip skirt which has great style and great price, at $24.99! Loving the original cut of this skirt that is as flattering as it is...

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3 Meeting Hacks for Introverts At Work

Being an introvert in today's workplace is not the easiest thing, far from it. Especially during meetings when introverts definitely have a hard time being heard... As one who enjoys quieter energy and smaller groups myself, today's workplace, where apparent success...

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There’s an app for that: Eternity Time Log

Wondering where the day has gone! In between work, life, and all the other obligations that fill our lives, the one thing that continuously seems to elude us is time! And of course, there's an app for that... It's called Eternity, and it is structured to point out...

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