The other day I was musing on the fact that although girls outperform boys in GCSEs and A levels in the UK, women remain sorely under-represented in the boardroom, with a pitifully small number of top listed companies having women on their executive teams.

Then today I read that the number of women in the UK opting to remain at home and look after their children instead of doing paid employment has risen by 32,000 since the same time last year, with the cost of childcare playing a major …

Asking for a payrise is never easy and companies are going to dine out on the ‘financial crisis’ for a long time to come. But if you deserve more money then you can still ask. You might get a knockback, but even by asking you might get more than you expected. Whether that’s a bonus for working hard on a project, or a new job title with more responsibility, if you go about it the right way you can get what you’re asking for even if …

It takes a lot to make me excited after the August bank holiday weekend. Even the promise of a four day week normally fails to shake me from my late summer blues. This week, however, I am all kinds of excited. As in swivel chair dance kinds of excited.

Why, you ask? Well this week we’ve laid down the welcome mat for the latest additions to the TotallyMoney blogging team- Viviana from The Lean Times and A Thrifty Mrs from the eponymously titled (and magnificent) blog. Both of these …

The TotallyMoney Blog Carnival went live on Monday at Bank Nerd!  We hope to see you again next week!

Editors’ Picks this week:

Mom’s Plans presents Are You Frugal at the Expense of Enjoying Life?

ChristianPF presents 5 Tips For Paying Off Your Mortgage Early.

Tripbase presents Warning: Don’t Make these 8 Money Mistakes When Traveling Abroad.

Outlaw Finance presents Top 5 Common Investing Mistakes.

Thanks again and remember to submit your post for next week, which may be picked by …

The last couple of weeks’ newspapers have been full of images of beaming young people receiving their school results, and one trend that has continued on from the last few years has been the widening gender gap.

This year saw girls out perform boys in almost every GCSE subject, and continued to increase their dominance in science subjects. Overall 26.5% of girls entries in all subjects were an A* or A grade, compared with just 19.8% of boys’ entries – at 6.7 percentage points this gap is the widest on …

Everyone has a list of dream jobs, dream careers, dream clients. How often do you check back to those sites and see if the company is hiring? Once every so often, you’ll get the chance to apply and you’ll no doubt write the best application in the world. But what happens if you get that job and it’s not what you expected at all? That’s happened to me. Twice. And I don’t think I’m the only one put in that position.

I think the problem with the dream job …

This is the best time of year if you’ve got an allotment or a vegetable garden. All the hard work of the past few months starts paying off as you find yourself with more fruit and veg than you know what to do with. The trick is finding ways to make all those lovely home grown goodies last well into winter. I’ve shown you how with pickling vegetables, but now it’s time to deal with the fruit.

Not to make too many of you jealous, but my allotment is overrun with …

Bleurgh. What a miserable miserable ‘summer’. Grey and soggy London is mocking me and my bank holiday plans (beach trip. Should have known better really). As the country gears itself for a last hurrah before months and months without a national holiday in sight, let’s take a look at the best of the blogosphere this week…

First to the carnivals. This week’s TotallyMoney Carnival was hosted over at Parenting Family Money. Remember to submit your posts, which may just get picked by Bank Nerd next week. …

Congratulations- you got The Job. You’re really looking forward to earning (and spending) those pay cheques, but for now you’re still on a tight budget and you need to look office appropriate. The good news is business attire is one of the easier types of wardrobe to build. There are well established fail safes that are easy to get your hands on regardless of your budget.

Here’s how you can find the right wear without spending all your pay:
Layer up
Cardigans and tights are a great way to dress up an old …

Once upon a time, everyone went to Monster Jobs or Fish 4 Jobs or Jobs Jobs Jobs (that one isn’t real) or some other website that meant you had to trawl through hundreds of irrelevant roles. But the way we search for jobs has changed. We just don’t search for jobs in the traditional way anymore. So if not pouring through job sites, where should we be looking?
Twitter
Yep. If you’re following people in your industry and companies you want to work for, this is the quickest way for you to …