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...

Work It: Cowl-neck A-Line Sweater Dress

Loving this cowl-neck A-line sweater dress from The Limited. Perfect for the Fall, this dress pairs an elegant flared skirt with practical 3/4 sleeves and a flattering belted look. I'd pair it with suede boots or elegant black pumps for work. This dress is on sale for...

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Spirit Sunday: What Seeds Are You Planting?

  I do NOT have a green thumb. You know how the cashier just puts up the "Closed" sign right when it's your turn to cash out? Well, that's what kinda happened when green thumbs were being allotted in the "Natural Gifts" department, and I got to the cashier...

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The 411: Weekly News Update

Happy happy Sunday! Hope everyone had a great week-end! Ours was quiet (as quiet as a week-end with two toddlers can be), mostly spent de-cluttering. And you wouldn't believe how much clutter a couple of people can accumulate in a few years. If your mess is causing...

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Coffee Break: Standing Desk

You've heard it over and over again, sitting at your desk all day long is slowly killing you! And while you may be able to alleviate your back pains and other resulting ailments with some smart inventions like this one, or even spin through your day with this baby,...

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Week-End Pick: Crew Sweatshirt

It's Friiiiday! Seriously, this has been a long week, and I don't know about you, but I'm ready for the week-end. Hence my week-end pick, this Dover Crew sweatshirt from Zady! Love, love, love the authentic leather elbow details, and the heirloom ribbon on the side...

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Want Career Success? Get a Lego Mentality

My house is filled with Lego pieces. Anyone who's ever entered our sweet, noisy abode had tripped up at least once on the d... things, or has been left with a stinging reminder of their sharp edges somewhere between their right and left buttocks. Now it may have...

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Coffee Break: Curvy Corporate Fashion

Dressing for the corporate environment is not always easy or inexpensive. And finding professionally-appropriate, flattering and good quality clothing when you're nowhere near a size 2 can be even more of a challenge. Hence why I absolutely love the new collab between...

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Work It: Diagonal-Pleat Combo Skirt

Loving this Elie Tahari pleat combo skirt from Neiman Marcus. The diagonal pleats on this otherwise classic A-skirt line are both original and unexpected, amping up the "oomph" factor on it. I also really like the slight natural rise of this skirt, perfect to hide any...

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Coffee Break: Nubian Skin Hosiery

'Tis the season of tights and hosiery, as Fall is upon us. As a woman of color, finding tights that can come close enough to a nude shade is always a challenge. As a matter of fact, finding "nude" anything is the object of quite the hunt. I had written earlier last...

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