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...

“Being Mary Jane” Fashion: The Blazer

So yes, I said it already in my previous review of Being Mary Jane, and I'm saying it again, I love Mary Jane Paul's character on the BET show "Being Mary Jane". And as a corporate sister with fashion on my mind, you know I also love Mary's sense of fashion. One of...

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After-Hours Chat: To Tuck In or Not to Tuck In?

TheLimited.comIn our after-hours chat today, we discuss the tucking question! Yup, should you tuck your white button-down or blouse in your pants or skirt, or just let them loose over your bottoms? While some of us feel more comfortable letting a nice button-down...

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Lunch Break: Women’s Boiled Wool Winter Jacket

Remember that New York & Co. Audrey Tweed dress we fell in frugal love with yesterday? Well, looks like we found the perfect winter jacket for it, or anything else in our corporate wardrobe at this point... This GROA boiled wool winter jacket has us holding our...

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Coffee Chat: The App to Stay Forever Organized

We were talking earlier about how it’s January (yup, change your calendar), and we really, I mean really, need to get organized, like…yesterday! And since it’s always better to do anything with a little bit of help here and there , we wanted to give a shout out to one...

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Lunch Break: The Audrey Tweed Dress

For our lunch break today, we're having a frugal crush on the Audrey Tweed dress from the Eva Mendes collection at New York & Co. This tweed boucle dress, which by the way is so well adapted to the season, is both elegant and work-appropriate! With a ballet neck...

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It’s January, Time to Get Organized!

It's January, first full week at work, and it feels like...there's so much to do already! Our head is still on vacation, and frankly just looking at the state of our desks makes us want to run for the next exit! It's the start of the new year, and for many of us...

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Coffee Break: Two-Tone Grid Cardigan

Today's coffee break's "coup de coeur" has our hearts melting for this two-tone grid cardigan from The Limited. It's preppy, sophisticated, and work-friendly enough to make all of us corporate fashionistas swoon! I love love the grid pattern and 3/4 sleeves that make...

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