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...
Wear to Work: Buckle Cardigan

Wear to Work: Buckle Cardigan

Our Wear to Work feature presents workwear for business and professional women in a range of styles and prices.  Nothing like a warm cashmere sweater to make you spend the winter in style and in warmth! Like this Neiman Marcus cashmere collection half-sleeve buckle...

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7 Tips to Change Careers This Year

7 Tips to Change Careers This Year

New year, new goals, right? If changing careers or starting a new career is on your vision board this year, it might not be as difficult as you may think. Challenging, yes? But definitely not impossible…. Here are a few ways to get started to follow a new career path...

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7 Easy Steps to Help Kids Set Goals In the New Year

7 Easy Steps to Help Kids Set Goals In the New Year

After we got married, hubby and I started a family tradition of talking about /writing down our goals at the start of every new year. As two consenting adults having recovered from excessive dessert consumption, we’d swap intentions for the next 365 days. Kinda like...

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Wear to Work: Tweed Fringe-Trim Blazer

Wear to Work: Tweed Fringe-Trim Blazer

Our Wear to Work feature presents selected pieces of attire for professional and business women in various price ranges. Nothing says classic Parisian chic like a tweed blazer! Hence today's pick, this Tommy Hilfiger tweed-fringe-trim blazer available at Macy's. The...

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Wear to Work: Pleat-skirt Shirtdress

Wear to Work: Pleat-skirt Shirtdress

Our Wear to Work feature presents selected pieces of professional attire for professional and business women at various price ranges. This pleat-skirt shirtdress from Banana Republic is at the intersection of chic and classic. The plated skirt adds yet another touch...

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WGC003: 2016, It’s Been Real!

WGC003: 2016, It’s Been Real!

This is the last Working Girls Club podcast episode of 2016, people! Before we know it, it'll be 2017, and we'll be onto a brand new year filled with possibilities, opportunities, and even more lessons than we've learnt in 2016. Speaking of lessons, this show focuses...

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Weekly News Roundup (Last One of 2016)

Weekly News Roundup (Last One of 2016)

This is our weekly career and lifestyle news roundup, where we round up exciting news of the last week and we let you have it...And it's also the last news roundup of 2016!  Thank you so much for reading, and see you in 2017! Here we go… This week, I'm featuring...

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