So often, I speak to women who will earnestly tell me that they have been very lucky in their careers because they have never had to negotiate a raise, but instead had been given raises before they had to ask. For those women, and for the ones reading that and...

Looking at what holds us women back from negotiating for all the things we need, want and deserve (including salary), let’s focus on one particularly demotivating thing they tell themselves when discussing this subject: “I would love to, but I am really just not good...

Are you with the 93% of women who don’t do this? A seminal study by Linda Babcock, author of Women Don’t Ask and former Acting Dean at Carnegie Mellon University's Business School, looked at women’s propensity to negotiate their salaries. She asked the Carnegie Mellon...

Recently, I have been receiving even more emails like the below than I got before. Covid-19 is clearly having everyone re-evaluate their careers. I have been on furlough / laid off due to the pandemic and decided that, in order to increase my chances of securing a new...

Team, the appraisals are coming up for a lot of us in the next couple of weeks. Are you ready for the discussion with your boss? You are quite likely to hear the infamous words: “It was fantastic that you did the work of your three other co-workers we laid off, but...

Unlike financial advice for men, which is all about investment, taking risks, etc. for women financial advice has historically focused on saving, scrimping, cutting coupons. “Here’s 30 cents off your everyday household items!”, supermarket advertising yells at us....