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...

Lunch Break: Printed Tops

Happy lunch time! For our fashion interlude today, we are switching things up a bit, and offering 2 selections from a high and low budget points, instead of our usual one! We were on the lookout for printed tops, and happened to find two that we really liked at two...

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Coffee Break: Laptop Sleeve

For our coffee break today, we are in the mood for...cake! Yess, and that's why we went absolutely gaga over this Kate Spade laptop sleeve. For all the corporate gals out there who cherish their sweet tooth (right along with their professional style), this "Eat Cake...

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Lunch Break: Seersucker One-button Jacket

For our lunch break today, we are ushering summer in with this seersucker one-button jacket and coordinated skirt from Ann Taylor. Loving the impeccable tailoring of this stretch jacket, the crisp 3/4 sleeves with the added buttons for style, and did we mention the...

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Coffee Break: Is it OK to wear perfume to work?

In our coffee break feature today, we are addressing one of the questions that many a corporate sister asks herself. When it comes to perfumes and fragrances, is it ok to sport your favorite fragrance to work? Or should you think twice about incommoding your...

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Lunch Break: Acrylic Bib Necklace

It's lunch/fashion time! Today we're accessorizing with this lovely Halcyion acrylic bib necklace from Baublebar. When it comes to accessories, and more specifically statement necklaces at work, I believe while it's safer to avoid going the "BIG LOOK AT ME" statement...

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When it’s Smarter Not to Speak Up At Work

Happy Tuesday! With all the hype on women's empowerment, leaning in and sitting at the table, it seems all women at work should do is speak up! We should voice our opinions, fight for equal rights and be as opinionated as we can afford to! Yet, in mine and many...

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