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Ellen's blog: So what do you want to do?

I was recently asked by a former boss and friend what I would like to do with my career. No idea. The last time someone asked me that I was 15; the careers advice at school was “so what do you ... Read More

James's Blog: My wife recently returned to work

My wife recently returned to work following the end of her maternity leave.  We wanted to delay sending our daughter, June, to nursery for a while, and I wanted to spend some quality time with h... Read More

Dolly's Blog: From the sublime to the ridiculous

Once upon a time we had a nanny.  In fact we had a couple (consecutively rather than simultaneously I should add, just in case you’re getting visions of an Angelina Jolie-esque set up here... Read More

Anthony's Blog: Does this sound familiar?

Does this sound familiar to any of you? It's half term this week. My squeakers are 9 and 11 and I haven't really seen them properly for a couple of weeks - the result of a combination of thei... Read More

Jennifer's Blog: Thriving

"It started off as just another busy day in the office - so busy that I missed my scheduled flight out to Geneva, got myself booked on to the next one, then proceeded to go the wrong London airp... Read More

Citydad: Making it Happen

When my wife asked me if I wanted to split her maternity leave as additional paternity leave, I must admit I raised my eyebrows. "Can you really do that?” I asked her. "Sure you can&q... Read More

Esther's blog: Making a Stand

"In my last blog I asked 'When will men openly acknowledge school sports days, parents' evenings and picking up their children from school ?'. Well, it certainly seems like I caught... Read More

Keily's Blog: Mini eggs and Glue

Last Monday I returned from my first overseas business trip since my daughter was born, feeling rather proud of myself and my family. I was proud of myself (for going and enjoying the trip), proud of... Read More

Tom's Blog: Guilty, or guilt-free?

Is it me or do we sometimes give ourselves too much of a hard time as Dads? During a talk at school, my six year old son's teacher explained that not everyone's family circumstances are the s... Read More

Ellen's Blog: Let's talk about Culture

“Let’s talk about ‘Culture’ - set at the top, but decided in the middle, and applied at the bottom. Nowadays it is increasingly common for employers to offer facilities to hel... Read More

Natalie's Blog: The next generation

“Looking back at my last blog it struck me that I was maybe a bit frustrated when I wrote it, perhaps I was having a bad day? Of course  it might just have been that the torrential unrelen... Read More

Louisa's Blog: Pushing for Cultural Change

Yesterday I received an approach from a features journalist at the Financial Times asking me if I knew any City women with partners who are either stay-at-home fathers, or who do most of the childcar... Read More

Dolly's Blog: Will someone hide my Blackberry?

"To check or not to check? That is the question. I'm talking of course about the Blackberry, a device which sometimes seems to liberate and enslave me in equal measure. Since having kids I w... Read More

Esther's Blog: Buses and breastmilk

“In my last blog I promised to address expressing milk in the workplace and enabling men to feel comfortable about being fathers. I will, but first want to share with you a recent incident. &nb... Read More

Jennifer's Blog: Playground wars

“Let’s put aside challenges in the workplace as a working mother for a moment, I am experiencing something different and if I am experiencing this, the chances are that other working Moth... Read More

Keily's Blog: Not Guilty

"I have a confession to make; I do not suffer from any feelings of guilt associated with being a working mother.  Most days I am happy that I returned to work eight months after the bi... Read More

Claire's blog

The title "Citymother" is now only half true in its application to today's blogger and I can hardly quite believe I am writing this. No, I haven't given my children away to a good h... Read More

Ellen's blog

Like most working mothers, I spend a disproportionate amount of time and energy worrying. The origins of the anxiety are most commonly: being late to pick up the children, mentally-scarring the child... Read More

Natalie's blog

'So I'm 8 weeks into my new role working full time in the City.  Having spent the last few years of my career part time/ flexible working I was anxious as to how it would pan out. Well i... Read More

Louisa's blog

Two weeks into the return to work after maternity leave and its been a mixed start. The first few days were good actually, with a busy schedule at the office meaning the time flew by. Baby boy didn&r... Read More

Esther's blog

I wonder how many mother and daughter pairs there are in Citymothers, like myself and my daughter? Until last year, I always had a full-time job, as an academic until she was 5 and then in the City u... Read More

Jennifer's blog

New Year’s resolutions – you may have been thinking of this tired old repetitive topic and already glazed over a few magazine articles genre fitness, gym’ing and losing weight ! &nb... Read More

Keily's blog

"Prior to becoming pregnant in 2012 the only career track on my mind was the partnership track. Now post-maternity leave, I have begun to ask myself am I being “mummy tracked”? ... Read More

Dolly's blog

I’ve been thinking a lot about part-time working – my own arrangements and those of others.  Because one of the tricky things about being lucky enough to have a firm that said &ldquo... Read More

Claire's blog

' "You don't spend enough time with your children!" said my mother during a heated debate following Sunday lunch and a few emotion-raising glasses of wine. These words hurt. Cut lik... Read More

Ellen's blog

I thought I’d start with a topic close to my heart - Women on Boards. To be clear, that’s ironing boards – I’m quite passionate about reducing the number of women on ironing b... Read More

Natalie's blog

'The mummy hat and the woman in business hat. Two hats, one head. Sometimes I opt for one over the other, not always making the right choice, and sometimes I try to wear both and one falls off, u... Read More

Introducing our Citymothers Bloggers

Recently we asked for volunteers from Citymothers willing to blog for www.citymothers.co.uk and had a fantastic response. As a result we have put together a blogging group with 6 member bloggers and ... Read More

1000 of you

Thrilled to announce that the Citymothers Network has now reached 1000 members! I started Citymothers in November 2012 following my own experience of becoming a mother whilst progressing a career in ... Read More

Time to fight the fear - and ask

Yesterday’s Executive Women in the Workplace 2013 study highlighted the enormous amount of work still to be done to have any hope of achieving real diversity at executive level, with much of th... Read More