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Working Women

The Key to Global Recovery

Sandra Taylor | Posted 02.10.2012 | Impact

Read More: Working Women, Women's Equality, Women's Rights, Womens Empowerment, Third Billion, The Third Billion Campaign, Women's Education, Women in Business, Impact News
Sandra Taylor

Women will never realize their potential as "economic engines" if they are subject to abuse at home or can't own or exercise control over property.

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Sisterly Love: The Rise of the Black Girl Crush

Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 02.08.2012 | Black Voices

Read More: Black Women, Black Unemployment, Working Women, Les Tulieries, Girl Crush, Post Racial America, Black Female Journalists, Women Writers, Solange Knowles Style, Black Girl Crush, Style-Journalism, Michelle Obama, Writers' Strike, Hair & Beauty, Hair-Beauty-Beauty, Black Voices News
Marjon Rebecca Carlos

While Black female creative professionals try to gain footing in the wake of such staggering facts, it is no wonder then that the rise of the Black girl crush has emerged. In fact, it has crested in my own life, as I have been working freelance since May 2011.

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Securing Equal Pay? There (Should Be) an App for That!

Valerie Jarrett | Posted 02.06.2012 | Politics

Read More: Obama State of the Union 2012, President Obama, Obama Working Women, Working Women, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Obama Administration, State of the Union 2012, Obama State of the Union, National Equal Pay Task Force, Equal Pay App Challenge, Equal Pay App, Equal Pay, Politics News
Valerie Jarrett

Right now, if you're a woman in the workforce, it can be surprisingly difficult to answer basic questions about equal pay: what's the typical salary for someone in your position? Should you be asking for more at the negotiating table? What are your fundamental legal rights?

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What Women Need to Realize About Financial Security

Kristen Houghton | Posted 01.31.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Financial Crisis, Disability Insurance, Money, Women's Health, Health, Personal Finance, Finances, Financial Security, Women and Money, Women News
Kristen Houghton

You can never be too careful with your health or your finances. Both of them in good shape create security.

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Advice You'll Never Hear From A Career Counselor

Katrina Alcorn | Posted 01.30.2012 | Women

Read More: Career Advice, Working Women, Gaps in Employment, Working Mothers, Humanity in the Workplace, Healthy Living, Burnout, Women News
Katrina Alcorn

When you are honest about what went wrong, people will like you and want to work with you, even more than if you pretend to be floating sublimely above the messiness of your life.

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Wage Theft, Sexual Harassment and Workplace Violence; The Troubling Reality of Many Latina and Immigrant Workers

Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 01.29.2012 | Latino Voices

Read More: Working Women, Latinas, Lclaa, Violence Against Women, Immigrant Workers, Sexual Harrassment, Workplace Violence, Latino Voices News
Hector E. Sanchez

We stand with Latinas across the nation to ensure that their labor, human and civil rights are fully respected because an injury to one is an injury to all.

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Is Your Job Dictating Your Happiness?

Holly Sidell | Posted 01.24.2012 | Los Angeles

Read More: Balanced Life, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Working Women, Work-Life Balance, Human Connection, Vicious Work Cycle, Working to Live, Los Angeles News
Holly Sidell

Let me ask you -- really, are you living? Living to what -- living to make money so that we can pay rent or a mortgage on a place that we only really sleep in? Pay for a car that pretty much only transports us to and from work?

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White Women: The Sponsors Women of Color Must Have in the 21st Century

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 01.18.2012 | Business

Read More: White Women, Women, Professional Women, Women of Color, Sponsorship, Sponsor, Women in the Workplace, Affirmative Action, Working Women, Female Executives, Business News
Trudy Bourgeois

Women simply must learn how to support other women across ALL ethnicities. This is THE way we WILL raise a collective voice of demand for eliminating the glass ceiling once and for all.

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4 Things Not To Discuss With Co-Workers

SavvySugar | Posted 01.12.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Office Culture, Workplace, Work, Workplace-Dynamics, Women News

Friendships with your co-workers are inevitable - and a great way to connect to your workplace - but it's important to set a few conversation boundari...

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Tina Fey's Rules For Improv... And Your Career

Women 2.0 | Bryce Christiansen | Posted 01.10.2012 | Women

Read More: Workplace, Working Women, Improv, Careers, Tina Fey Bossypants, Bossypants, Tina Fey, Career Advice for Women, Women News

As I finished reading Tina Fey's book Bossypants, I came to a realization. We often don't give comedians enough credit for their business smarts, a...

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No, Really, You Can Have It All -- If You Do This

Alexis Sclamberg | Posted 01.06.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Woman, Having It All Blog, Career Women, Career, Can Career Women Be Successful Mothers, Job, Working Women, Career-Women, Having It All, Jobs, Careers, Raising Kids, Family, Women News
Alexis Sclamberg

But we enlightened ladies, running on an empty tank, eyelids drooping with the sting of fatigue and dry contacts, have woken up to the reality that Having it All was really code for Giving it All.

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Thoughts On Adoption Motherhood, In Black, White And Technicolor

Terra Trevor | Posted 01.15.2012 | Parents

Read More: Working Women, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Parenting, Celebrity, Adoption, Parents News
Terra Trevor

Within our sisterhood of adoptive mothers, we are a bit hard on each other.

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Connecticut Workers Welcome Paid Sick Days

Ellen Bravo | Posted 01.04.2012 | Business

Read More: Victory, Working Women, Connecticut, Paid Sick Days, Labor, Economic Security, Working Families, Business News
Ellen Bravo

As of January 1, hundreds of thousands of Connecticut workers will begin to earn paid sick time under a new statewide paid sick days law -- the first in the nation.

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Younger Women Opting For School Instead Of Labor Force

The New York Times | Catherine Rampell | Posted 12.29.2011 | Business

Read More: Working Women, Business News, Women in Labor Force, Higher Education, Younger Women in School, Women in School, Business News

Workers are dropping out of the labor force in droves, and they are mostly women. In fact, many are young women. But they are not dropping out forever...

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How Much Is the Loss of Key Female Talent Costing Your Organization?

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 12.28.2011 | Business

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Working Women, Women, Women in Business, Business, Businesswomen, Business News
Trudy Bourgeois

It is unthinkable that CEOs would undervalue and underutilize as much as ONE-HALF of their talent pool. But that is precisely what is happening. And those companies that "don't get it" are losing their key female talent leaders to the companies who DO "get it."

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Why Women Need To Complain More

Anushay Hossain | Posted 01.30.2012 | Women

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Divorce, Women's Issues, Working Mothers, Working Women, Motherhood, Parenthood, Marriages, Women News
Anushay Hossain

Why is it when women need their girlfriends most, they stop reaching out to them?

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Are Female Bosses Harder on Female Employees?

Joan Williams | Posted 01.28.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Gender Equality, Gender Stereotypes, Lawyers, Law Firms, Women Lawyers, Gender Discrimination, Women News
Joan Williams

From "Working Girl" to "The Devil Wears Prada," the evil female boss is almost as tired a trope as the prostitute with a heart of gold.

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Are Single Women Singled Out At Work?

Melanie Notkin | Posted 01.16.2012 | Women

Read More: The Truth About Childless Women, Mammography, Career Women, Women News, Childless, Working Mothers, Mother, Working Women, Single, Mammograms, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Childless Women, Giuliana Rancic, Breast Cancer Awareness, Women News
Melanie Notkin

How could a company supporting women's health founded by and for women not support a breast cancer survivor? Why is motherhood the only acceptable reason to leave the office before 6 p.m.?

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Women on the Margins of the Labor Market

Sarah Damaske | Posted 01.10.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Women, Work-Life Balance, Low Wages, Great Recession, Recession, Women News
Sarah Damaske

Since the 1970s, women have made remarkable strides in the labor market, but these changes have been incomplete, leaving many working-class women on the margins of the labor market, facing high levels of unemployment.

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Erasmus B. Dragon: Inequality Is a Joke to the New York Times

Joan Williams | Posted 01.09.2012 | Parents

Read More: Working Women, Stress, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance, Working Mothers, Sleep, Gender Roles, Parents News
Joan Williams

What the Times is reporting on is gender inequality. As a cute, funny lifestyle piece. These women are anxious. They are overburdened. They do three-and-a-half times as much routine housework as their husbands. The performance burdens aren't a punchline.

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Focus on Money Misses Mark on Why Women Work

Sarah Damaske | Posted 01.01.2012 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Work-Life Balance, National Work and Family Month, Work/Family Balance, Working Mothers, Work, Women News
Sarah Damaske

My research found that even though women emphasize the importance of financial needs in their explanations of their work, money is not the driving force behind their workforce decisions.

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How To Brag Like a Lady

Joan Williams | Posted 12.24.2011 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Women in Business, Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Workplace, Catalyst Study, Career Advice, Career Advice for Women, Confidence, Women News
Joan Williams

The problem with so much of the career advice out there is that it advises women to act more like men in the workplace. Here are four tips women can actually use.

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Giving Women a Second Chance

Arcelia Hurtado | Posted 12.20.2011 | Women

Read More: Working Women, Women's Empowerment, Reentry, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Issues, Realignment, Criminal Justice Reform, Jennifer Johnson, Equal Rights Advocates, San Francisco, The Road Forward, Women News
Arcelia Hurtado

When I met M she had schizophrenia, a drug addiction, breast cancer, and had been hospitalized twice as a victim of domestic violence. There is no way M could have overcome this without help.

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Making It in a Man's Universe

Geri Brin | Posted 12.20.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Working Women, Women's Empowerment, Women in Business, Fifty News
Geri Brin

Daddy had no sons but he always told his three girls "make something of yourselves."

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Building a Grassroots Movement: Taking Workplace Flexibility From Private to Public

Kathleen E. Christensen | Posted 12.20.2011 | Business

Read More: Work Life Balance, Working-Women, Workers, Worplace, Work, Work-Life Balance, Society, National Work and Family Month, Workplace Flexibility, Business, Business News
Kathleen E. Christensen

Workplace flexibility can make a huge difference for working parents, by providing control over when, how and where work gets done. So why aren't the needs of working parents for flexibility becoming a big public issue and ultimately the normal way of doing business?

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