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...
Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to our weekly career, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and fashion news roundup! Think of it as your online watercooler/work gossip station/coffee break spot for now…Want to add anything to our list? Email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com! In MAJOR news this...

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Wear to Work: Spot Ruffle Flute Dress

Wear to Work: Spot Ruffle Flute Dress

Our Wear to Work feature presents workwear for business and professional women in a range of styles and prices. Please note this post contains affiliate links.  Nothing says fun workwear quite like this Toyshop spot ruffle flute dress. Loving the playful energy of the...

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3 Tips To Position Yourself In Your Career

3 Tips To Position Yourself In Your Career

This post is extracted and adapted from my e-book "Girl, take back your career." We’re taught so much that we can do it all, and we can do it alone, that we tend to forget that others play a crucial role in our careers too. It may take a village to raise a child,...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to our weekly career, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and fashion news roundup! Think of it as your online watercooler/work gossip station/coffee break spot for now…Want to add anything to our list? Email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com!   On my...

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Wear to Work: Transport Satchel

Wear to Work: Transport Satchel

Our Wear to Work section features a piece of clothing or accessory for business and professional women in a range of prices.  Have you ever dreamt of a satchel that could hold all your essentials in one place without you having to lose your mind trying to find your...

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7 Apps to Boost Your Productivity in 2017

7 Apps to Boost Your Productivity in 2017

We all want to be more productive. As in do more in less time, and still be able to sit somewhere with a good book and some form of carb-filled snacks for a minute or two... Except the more we think about being productive, the more to-do's start creeping up on our...

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Wear to Work: Fringe Tweed Pencil Skirt

Wear to Work: Fringe Tweed Pencil Skirt

Our Wear to Work feature presents workwear for business and professional women in a range of styles and prices. Please note this post contains affiliate links.  Tweed and fringes make a great combo, jus like with this tweed fringe-trim blazer. But who said you can't...

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Weekly News Roundup

Weekly News Roundup

Welcome to our weekly career, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and fashion news roundup! Think of it as your online watercooler/work gossip station/coffee break spot for now...Want to add anything to our list? Email us at corporate@thecorporatesister.com! As we bid...

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