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Naomi's blog: Superwoman?

"Last year a colleague of mine (also a working mum) explained why she was leaving her job. “Naomi, not everyone can have it all, like you do”).... Wow! So someone actually thinks I h... Read More

Citydad's blog: Man about the house

Three weeks into my paternity leave and I'm cracking up… No, I mean I'm literally cracking up! My hands have sore, bloody cuts on them as deep as the Grand Canyon as I'm washing th... Read More

Esther's blog: Mentoring

"Yesterday Louisa and I launched the new Citymothers Mentoring Scheme, a cross-company mentoring scheme open to all Citymothers members. Of the 120 or so applicants, we were able to match ... Read More

Tom's Blog: Connecting with our children's lives

When a City law firm came up with a list of its defining values, 'connecting' was one of the top results. That got me wondering whether I put us much effort into finding out about the lives m... Read More

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