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– Real Simple rounds up 6 “easy” braids for the summer. Despite the fact that all of the models look like they've been tranquilized, I think a lot of the ‘dos could work for the office.
– Your mind needs breaks! The NYT talks about how you should take breaks to stay on schedule, and the WSJ explores how “the juggle” does not just apply to parents, but to single people too. The Chronicle of Higher Education imagines a world where we all only work 15 hours a week. Lifehacker agrees.
– Can women have it all? An interesting op-ed in The Atlantic (by Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the State Department) says NO. Meanwhile, there's a fascinating piece in Forbes suggesting that entrepreneurship is the new woman's movement. (I kind of agree.)
– Grammar gaffes are increasingly embarrassing bosses, says the WSJ. But: good grammar costs nothing!
– Savvy Sugar has tips for easing back into work after vacation.
– The Jane Dough takes a look at bitchface.
– Thanks to Forbes Woman for rounding up the Top 100 Websites for Women (and including Corporette!)
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TBK
Is teased hair coming back? I recently met a very young lawyer (25) who wears her hair in this teased up flouf (like a half-up/half-down style but the up part is teased and floufy — if that makes sense). I thought it was just bizarre but now I’m seeing more teased styles in magazines. (Reading this over, I feel a little old. I guess at 34 I’m not likely to be much of a trend-setter.)
anon
is she trying to do a Snooki-ish poof?
TBK
No, it’s different. There’s a side part involved and it’s looser. Less of a distinct poof and more of a general fluffiness all over the top.
E.
Yes, very trendy at the moment. I see this look a lot.
Anonymous Poser
“Why Don’t We Talk About Whether Men Can ‘Have It All’?”
http://www.thejanedough.com/can-you-have-it-all/
Lyssa
Good piece, thanks for sharing. I can’t help but think that this whole line of focus on “family” issues as feminist issues all rests on the assumption that women and women alone are responsible for raising children, which is not at all productive to what I would understand to be the goals of feminism and equality.
Anonymous Poser
I agree, Lyssa. And you are welcome!
I hate the term “women’s issues”: They’re not. They’re human concerns.
Migraine Sufferer
I agree with needing to change the term. They are human concerns.
locomotive
Okay – advice on a silly shopping related thing. So I want to buy this tweed suit on serious sale from Talbots ($117 total for the jacket and skirt). From a different website, I can buy a talbots gift card at 25% off, but it’s $333. I would have to spend $333 for a $440 Talbots gift card. Should I do it??? The ‘get a deal’ side of my brain is screaming for me to do it but also…that is a lot of money that I would be committing to spend at Talbots. ahhh!!
Mountain Girl
It would depend on how soon you would spend it all. I just read a news report yesterday about 10 business that will not survive the next year and Talbots was listed. If you plan to save and use it over the next year or so you might be left hanging. If you would use it soon than it might be worth it – providing you have the cash on hand.
Nicole
Ignore the discount, look at the total. Do you want to spend $333?
rosie
I would pass on that unless you a regular Talbots shopper and would be spending the money there over the next year or so with or without the gift card. Think about how much you have bought from Talbots over the past year. Not knowing how much you shop at Talbots, it sounds like you are already getting a good deal on it, so I would pass on the gift card if you’re hesitant.
AIMS
WSJ has had a few interesting articles this week:
1. How to Look and Act Like a Leader
http://tinyurl.com/699pcak
2. Hot Weather & the Frigid Office (this one is subscriber access only, sadly)
http://tinyurl.com/create.php
LilacWine
I’m glad that WSJ singles article is up there with the Atlantic article. Whereas I agree with most of Anne Marie Slaughter’s assertions, I feel that having “it all” should be extended to whatever makes you happy, not just raising children (not that I think that is Slaughter’s oversight – the article would have been too bloated if she’d started going into that). I say this because I feel that even at progressive offices, leaving early to spend time with your child was encouraged, but I wouldn’t get the same leniency if I wanted to leave early to spend time with my husband. I don’t want kids, but I do really care about my husband, so why can’t my work-life balance include him?
(sorry, just had to vent after reading through all the articles and comments on various sites all day)
petitesq
Can I go home now? [Just checking.]
Katherine
I would encourage readers of Anne-Marie’s article to also read this: http://www.salon.com/2012/06/21/can_modern_women_have_it_all/singleton/, or some of the comments on the NY Times follow-up piece: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/us/elite-women-put-a-new-spin-on-work-life-debate.html#postcomment
DEA
Does anyone else think the “Women can’t have it all” is a bit outdated and backwards?
I know people interested in fashion usually aren’t too forward-thinking on the feminist end, but it must strike someone as self-induced sexism to assume that only women care about balancing time with their families, and women should be raising kids while men don’t need to worry about balancing a family.
The title should be “People can’t have it all” not “Women can’t have it all.” And that’s the ENTIRE problem. The author just sidesteps it.
Anonymous Poser
YES, I am so over it.
“Women can’t have it all” denies that men want to have well rounded lives, spending time with family (whatever that means for them–children or no) and friends, eating right and exercising, and just doing stuff that =/= work (or sleep).
We should quit denying that men want balance in their lives just like we should quit denying that it’s okay for a woman to want professional fulfillment *and* to have children (or whatever, I don’t have children but still want balance in my life, but usually “having it all” is defined as wanting a career and child(ren) while female).