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Dear Working Mom, Are You Doing Too Much?
Dear Working Mom is our periodic love letter to working moms everywhere, where we deal with and unpack the challenges facing mothers and offer encouragement and support… Dear Working Mom, Are you doing too much? If you’re reading this, you may feel a twinge of...
TCS Podcast Episode 29: 7 Struggles faced by Black Women at Work
This episode is part of our "Black Women at Work" series in honor of Black History Month. Today, we're discussing the 7 most common struggles faced by Black women in the workplace. From lack of representation to lack of access to higher levels of management, there are...
Is Black Excellence a Trap for Black Women at Work?
In academics as well as the professional sphere, Black women have been conditioned to operate in excellence for the longest time. There is a badge of honor that comes with always showing up in your optimal capacity, especially if and when you’re the “only” Black woman...
Equity Compensation is the Other Gender Pay Gap We Don’t Talk About…
In 2020, a Pew Research Center analysis revealed women earned 84% of their male counterparts’ earnings. The gap is even deeper for Black and Latina women, who respectively earn 65% and 59% of white men’s earnings. This is not recent news, as the...
A Good Marriage is Not Great: Why A Good Career Won’t Do For Millenials
Happy Thursday! Marriage is not easy. Actually, if anything requires work, it would be putting two people together with different sets of toothbrushes and brains together, and then proceed to ask them to spend the rest of their lives sharing bedsheets and possibly one...
Sister Talk: Embrace Your Innate Leadership
In the wake of South African and world symbol of human spirit and leadership Nelson Mandela, we all owe it to him and to ourselves to take a good, hard look at ourselves, especially as people of color, and ask the hard questions. The essential questions, like "What...
Spirit Sunday: Put Yourself Back on Your Priority List
The holidays are right around the corner, and for most of us corporate sisters, it means family time, food and lots of fun times...yet it also means taking care of everyone else's needs before our own, barely keeping ourselves mentally and spiritually afloat, running...
Dear Working Mom, It’s OK not to be OK: Maternal Depression is Not a Weakness
Dear Working Mom, I know most days you have too much on your plate to think about your mental health! As you furiously work through your to-do list, lugging the kids from one appointment to the other, often not getting enough sleep as you make up for work and...
Why Gender Inequality is Bad Business for Women’s Mental Health…
If you’ve ever experienced stress, anxiety or even depression from experiencing or being exposed to gender-based violence or discrimination, you’ve experienced some of the psychological effects of gender inequality. Indeed, gender Inequality is not only bad for...
Dear Working Mom, You Don’t Have to Get it Right
“Girls, I know it has not been easy as I have tried to navigate the challenges of juggling my career and motherhood. And I fully admit that I did not always get the balance right. But I hope that you have seen that with hard work, determination, and love, it can be...
TCS Podcast Episode 31: What about the maternal wall bias?
In this episode, we're discussing as part of Women's History Month, the maternal wall bias, or the bias many, if not most working and expectant mothers are seen as less competent, regardless of their actual abilities. Read more on this on the blog... Thanks for...