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...

How Is Dr. King’s Legacy Affecting Your Career?

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to all! On this Day of Service, I got to reflect on the impact of Dr. King's legacy on my life as a woman of color, and in particular in my career. As corporate sisters, and women professionals in general, we have to be the leaders in...

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Lunch Break: Peplum Pencil Skirt

For our lunch break today, we fell in fashion awe, corporate style, for this peplum pencil skirt from The Limited. With an asymmetrical pleated peplum waist, and a great graphic pattern, it has a great look for the office. The peplum pattern is also slimming to boast....

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Sales Alert!

Happy MLK Day! Hope everyone is commemorating this great holiday! As we're celebrating, there are also great sale out there we wanted to share with you: Ann Taylor is offering 60% off all sales and 50% off all regular prices (use online code: ANNFLASH); LOFT is also...

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Dread Going to Work?

madamenoire.comSo it's the end of the week-end, and before you know it, you'll be back at...work! And frankly, you dread it! You dread everything about it, from putting up with annoying co-workers to tackling your next big project...And as hard-working, dedicated and...

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The 411: What We’re Reading this Week

Enjoy our posts? Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Pinterest! Hope everyone had a great week! For the 411 on our Sunday news pow-wow, here is what we're reading this week... We are celebrating with "12 Years a Slave" actress Lupita Nyong'o her SAG Awards...

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Clutch Crush: Rebecca Minkoff “Coco” Clutch

We've got a clutch crush on on this Rebecca Minkoff's cherry leather studded flip lock "Coco" clutch. Perfect for a date tonight; or a night out with the girls to release the week's stress. We love the bright cherry color, which poses a nice contrast to the studded...

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Work or High School? One and the Same…

In a recent post, we discussed whether we should be in or opt out of the corporate group. Well, about that...In my years in the corporate environment, if there's one thing I learnt, is that high school never really is over...Not even when you graduate out of college...

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Working from Home? There are Rules…

So it's a snow day and you get to work from home? Or you've arranged to telecommute one day a week for added flexibility? Even better yet, your job may allow you to work from home most, if not, all the time? Psyched...Yes! No longer do you have to worry about getting...

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