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...
Ready…Fight! How to Start Strong At Your New Job

Ready…Fight! How to Start Strong At Your New Job

  Yesterday, we wrote about those things no one tells you about starting a new job, including being borderline romantically involved with IT...After your first day or week or so at your new job, and after all the welcoming smiles, luch invites, the warm-up period...

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Lunch Break: Crosby Pants

Crosby Street Slim Leg Pants - $52.95- newyorkandcompany.com For our lunch break today, we are looking at these Crosby Street slim leg polka dots pants from New York and Company. One of the big trends this Spring is polka dots, not that our work wardrobe should...

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Are Work Friendships Detrimental to Your Career?

visualphotos.comOne recurring question among some of our readers is around friendships at work. Is it healthy to have friendships at work, or does it give off the wrong impression, especially among corporate sisters who are also minorities? I personally think that if...

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Lunch Break: Striped One Button Blazer

I keep saying it, spring may not be in the air just yet, but it's on our minds...And why not start instilling it in our wardrobe too? That's why I love the easy-breezy feel of this striped one-button blazer from The Limited, it smells like clean, fresh spring air, and...

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Why Diversity is A Winning Value for Corporations

Diversity has now been hailed for years as being the catalyst for good business and governance. For promoting women to the top of the career ladder to fostering inclusiveness in companies when it comes to minorities of all kinds, be they race, gender, or sexual...

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Lunch Break: Colorblock Topper

Spring is not exactly in the air...but it's in our dreams, and also in our plans as we prepare to turn the clocks forward in a couple of weeks...So for our lunch break today, we are swooning over this colorblock topper from Ann Taylor, which is not only an elegant,...

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Lunch Break: Shop the Sales!

Hope everyone had a great week-end, and enjoyed the great President's Day sales yesterday! Well, for those of us who are still shopping, here are some more sales that are going on for a few more days... Ann Taylor is having 50% off on all sale styles, no code needed;...

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The 411: Our Weekly News Roundup

Reading the news online Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is having a restful Sunday, what with all this snow that is just slamming us on the Northeast...Well, if you're still...

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