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...

When the Holidays Meet Performance Reviews: How to Handle the Weight of the Season

It’s year-end again, and here we are steeped in year-end deadlines, holiday shopping, festivities planning, and…year-end performance review time at work. If you’ve ever wondered why year-end feels like an exhausting test on the home and work front, you are far from...

The Thanksgiving Tax: On the Real Cost of Women’s Holiday Labor

Every Thanksgiving and the ensuing holiday season, many, if not most, women step into an all-too familiar rhythm. It’s the rhythm of tireless planning, strategic coordinating, devoted caretaking, and organizing, smoothing, prepping, cooking, hosting, remembering, and...
TCS Podcast Episode 45: It’s a Cruel Summer Ceiling for Working Moms!

TCS Podcast Episode 45: It’s a Cruel Summer Ceiling for Working Moms!

In this episode of the TCS podcast, I’m chatting about the cruel summer ceiling for working moms (in my best Taylor Swift voice). By summer ceiling, I mean all the obstacles facing working moms during the summer months as they juggle increased childhood, caregiving, and household responsibilities due to school closures, with career and personal demands.

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The Summer Ceiling for Working Moms is Real

The Summer Ceiling for Working Moms is Real

The summer ceiling is a harsh reality for working mothers during the summer months. Rooted in the scarcity (or lack thereof) of childcare, caregiving and household support, it is a reality that harshly pulls working mothers between family, career and even finances. Yet, it is a reality that also calls us to consider the social, economic and political factors behind it, and take action by removing the guilt, rethinking the structure of our work and lives, and getting engaged.

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10 tips to complete a PhD as a busy working mom

10 tips to complete a PhD as a busy working mom

Going back to school as a working mom is a challenge. Enrolling into a PhD program and actually completing it while raising kids, taking care of the home and being in a relationship or partnership is not for the faint of heart. As a matter of fact, it requires the...

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