Weekly News Update
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- The Washington Post reported former first lady Michelle Obama's fashion choices were based on, among other things, diversity and whether the designer was a nice person.
- Refinery 29 suggested 17 plus-size sweater dresses.
- Harper's Bazaar offered another take on why people are obsessed with what women wear to the office.
- Fashionista explained what you can do with unwanted beauty products.
- BuzzFeed shared 37 self-care tips for anyone who needs a little help surviving the holidays.
- The Seattle Times offered a few tips to make gift wrapping more eco-friendly.
- The Goods by Vox provided advice for navigating online reviews.
- The Ladders reported on a new study about how women can benefit from having a work wife.
- Glamour shared tips on how to find a mentor at work.
- Fast Company provided ways for women to bridge the “networking gap” between them and their male colleagues.
- BuzzFeed News detailed the rise and fall of Sheryl Sandberg.
- Cornell University has opened a new exhibit titled Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline, open through March 31.
- Your Laugh of the Week: The New Yorker nailed what it's like to fly during the holidays.
On CorporetteMoms Recently…
- We continued our Week in the Life of a Working Mom series with a profile of a general counsel in San Francisco.
- We discussed doing personal tasks during work hours.
- We offered some clothes for working moms, including some maternity basics and washable workwear.
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The Buzzfeed article about Sheryl Sandberg is very insightful. It is a shame that one of my major female role models has been taken down by the bunch of younger Alpha Male execs in Facebook that were ruthelessley pursuing growth and profits over being rational and safeguarding privacy in a working environment. I have the book Leaning in and read it from cover to cover a few years ago. Also, I think that she also faced alot of adversity with her husband dying after falling off a treadmill, so she could have been diverted while those alpha males were driving earnings and profit’s at the cost of privacies. FOOEY on men that do stuff then make us take the fall for them. That is NOT right.
Can we stop referring to women in the office as “wives”? Is is really necessary that we rebrand ourselves at the office? Leaving aside all of the issues presented by labeling ourselves this way, the linked article isn’t even about meaningful relationships between women at work; it’s about the mere presence of women in an office.
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No one will think a woman in a skirt suit is too Ally McBeal if the skirt is not a mini-skirt.