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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

Bored of the blame game

Its not often working mothers are lumped into the same category as leaves, ice, snow and all the other things that, from time to time, prove to be impediments to the operational efficiency of public,... Read More

Not enough women on boards? We should focus on the source of...

I can’t help but feel frustrated by the way we are addressing the problem of a lack of women on boards. This is not to undermine the critical issue of insufficient female representation at seni... Read More

Thoughts on flexible working

A huge thank you to everyone who attended our flexible working event on Thursday at SJ Berwin, and of course our sincere appreciation to SJ Berwin for hosting. Its obvious that this is a topic that i... Read More

500 and growing

This week saw a real milestone for Citymothers as we reached 500 members. Hard to believe the network only started in November - the support and progress since then has been overwhelming. As many of ... Read More

Update on first Canary Wharf event

Thank you so much to all of you who came to our first Canary Wharf event last Thursday. It was a fantastic turnout and I thought Ruby McGregor-Smith gave a wonderfully honest and insightful overview ... Read More

Dealing with illness & updates

Well, last week for me certainly exemplified many of the challenges that come with being a working mother. It started with the nanny calling in sick- for the whole week -  at 5.45am on Monday mo... Read More

Update on 28th March 28th Canary Wharf event

The time is certainly flying past until our next event – now we can say it is this month! I hope lots of you will be able to join us on 28th in Canary Wharf at the offices of State Street to he... Read More

At last the weekend

Well...from one event to the next, I and the Team are now focused on our next meeting on 28 March in Canary Wharf. Thanks so much in advance to State Street for hosting us, and for Ruby McGregor-Smit... Read More

Feedback on recent event

What a fantastic launch event – many thanks to SJ Berwin for being brilliant hosts last Thursday. With over 70 people in the room the atmosphere was awesome, and we were incredibly lucky to hav... Read More

Phenomenal response to latest event

The week of our launch event is finally here! Response has been phenomenal and we have had to increase capacity with our hosts three times - many thanks in advance to the wonderful SJ Berwin. So far ... Read More

Happy New Year!

After a fantastic 2 weeks off at home – clouded only slightly by husband and I coming down with a winter virus, although baby girl miraculously escaped – its back to work today. Much to d... Read More

Gaining traction

Amazed at what's been achieved in the last 6 weeks. At the start of November, Citymothers was the wisp of an idea - the product of my own personal experience in keeping my career on track in the ... Read More