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How Jealousy Affects Women Differently

Emma Gray | Posted 05.06.2012

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Emma Gray

Have you ever been jealous of someone that you work with? According to a new study, a whole lot of people are -- and those feelings of jealousy impact women differently than they do men.

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New Report Shows Women In Restaurant Industry Face Harassment, Lower Wages

Posted 02.14.2012

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The Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC), working in concert with other labor advocacy groups, released a report ("Tipped Over The Edge") this week o...

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Women Retail Workers Make Less, Get Fewer Benefits Than Men

Alice Hines | Posted 12.22.2011

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In a time when jobs are scarce, retail is one of the few industries hiring -- creating about 500,000 temporary jobs this holiday season, according to ...

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Gender Washing at Walmart

Martha Burk | Posted 11.15.2011

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Martha Burk

Why has Walmart only recently discovered women as a resource, both as customers and suppliers? Could the answer be that 1.5 million associates sued the company for sex discrimination in pay and promotion?

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Should Women Exploit Their Sex Appeal At Work?

Catherine Hakim | Posted 11.06.2011

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Catherine Hakim

Lately, women keep asking me if they should be showing more cleavage at work. Or perhaps wearing shorter skirts?

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Laura Stampler

Three Tykes And You’re Out? Why Women With Three-Plus Kids Suffer Major Career Disadvantages

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Stampler | Posted 09.11.2011

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While balancing a family and career is difficult for any woman -- whether she has one child or five -- recent Australian research suggests that women ...

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Progress Denied: Women in Management Left Behind (Minding the Kids)

Robert Drago | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Drago

Among women in management without children, average pay rose from 81 cents to 83 cents for every dollar earned by males between 2000 and 2007. The story for women in management with children? Their earnings stayed flat.

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Investing in Human Capital: Women, Work and Family

Naomi Cahn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Naomi Cahn

How do dual career families manage the juggling act so much better than more traditional families? The well-kept secret is that investments in human capital pay off for employers as well as employees.

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Best Countries For Women Workers (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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According to a new study published by the World Economic Forum this week, women in nearly every country have not yet reached employment parity with me...

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Social Security Was Saved By Women: Casey Mulligan

nytimes.com | CASEY B. MULLIGAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the great advances of 20th century was increased life expectancy. This advance might have bankrupted Social Security, if it were not for women ...

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Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!

Mika Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Career & Money, Working Women, Women Workers, Motherhood, Balancing Motherhood and Work, Women in Business, The Balanced Life, Life Work Balance, Healthy Living News
Mika Brzezinski

It is true. I refrain from saying "My children are 100 percent my first priority at all times." I choose to put many other things on my plate too.

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Peaceful Revolution: The Business of America's Women Is Business

Nanette Fondas | Posted 11.17.2011

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Nanette Fondas

Women held 34.9 percent of all jobs 40 years ago; today we hold 49.8 -- any day now you will hear that we've passed the 50 percent mark. So hats off to women starting, sustaining, and working in women-owned businesses.

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Work And Babies: Women Still Have To Pick Their Poison (But Men Are Evolving!)

Mika Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mika Brzezinski

It seems like a woman has to pick her poison. Suffer now, or take "a few years off" and pay later. Women need to know that "taking a few years off" can often lead to a permanent condition of dependence and loss of identity.

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Sometimes You Have To Take A Step Back

Mika Brzezinski | Posted 11.17.2011

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Mika Brzezinski

During that full year and more that I was out of work, I discovered who I was and what I was meant to do, regardless of my assignment or my annual salary. I discovered what my terms would be this time around.

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Paycheck Jobs, Paycheck Feminism

Nanette Fondas | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nanette Fondas

Over the past 40 years the work force has changed dramatically -- with immigrants, women, single mothers, and Generations X and Y moving in. Yet the country has not updated its policies accordingly.

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Getting Real: Women Reject A Post-Feminist Kumbaya

Peggy Klaus | Posted 11.17.2011

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Peggy Klaus

The frequency at which I hear this kind of war story from women across all professions, career levels, and ages suggested that the issue affects a lot of people.

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You Wear The Suit: 8 Tips On Trading Places With Your Spouse

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.17.2011

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Therese Borchard

I've noticed many more men at pick-up from school and camp, soccer practice and birthday parties. The women? They've gone back to work because there a...

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What Working Mothers Needed this Mother's Day

Beth Shulman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beth Shulman

It is imperative that we think of solutions to make the middle class dream possible for working mothers once again.

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