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...

New Year, New Career? Why Women’s Careers Don’t Reset in January (and What to Do About It)

New year, new career? Or is it? The start of the year is supposed to feel like a career reset. New goals. New momentum. New clarity about where you’re headed professionally. And the hope that last year is behind you and this one will be better, or at least...

Lunch Break: The Perfect Nude Polish

Nothing worse than a bad manicure to make you self-conscious and uncomfortable...Ever looked at another corporate sister, and wondered how in the world she keeps her manicure on point all the time? So for those days when you missed your nail appointment, or just would...

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Post-Holiday Rut? 3 Ways to Cope

Happy New Year! It's the New Year, and our pre-holiday stress is slowly turning into a full-blown post-holiday rut. As if the entire weight of the year's pressures, challenges, failures, and even victories were pressing harder and harder on us. And as much as we are...

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Best of 2013: Our Best Fashion Articles of 2013

After rounding up our best career articles for 2013, now is the turn of our best fashion articles for 2013. Here is a roundup of the pieces we wrote that also inspired you, made you smile, or prompted some of your comments: 3 Ways to Jazz Up Your Corporate Wardrobe;...

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Natural Hairstyles for the Corporate Sister

In response to our reader Udeme's comment about natural hairstyles for corporate sisters out there, we wanted to show a few of our favorite natural hairstyles for work (please also check out our post on the CURLS line). So here is a roundup of our best natural...

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Lunch Break: Natural Hair CURLS Line

We've been getting a lot of questions around natural hairstyles in the workplace in response to our article on why your natural hair may actually give your career a boost. In addition to our recommendation of the Carol's Daughter haircare line for natural corporate...

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Best of 2013: Our Best Career Articles of 2013

Happy New Year! As we get ready to enter 2014, we would like to thank each and everyone of you for giving us a chance, and taking the time to stop by The Corporate Sister and read us. So we've rounded up our best career articles of 2013 for your reading pleasure:...

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Coffee Run: Athleta’s Gym Tote

  'Tis the season for fitness resolutions, and just in time for us to start our brand-spankin' new gym memberships, we can also get the bag that goes with the membership...the gym bag, that is...This Athleta spring tote is great for the corporate sisters heading...

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