While many women struggle to find work-life balance, Representative Paul Ryan made news this week when he told his colleagues he would run for speaker of the House IF the job would not interrupt his family time. Known as a “family guy” Ryan makes it a point to fly back to Wisconsin every weekend to […]
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Responsibility? Some women think they already have enough. According to a new study by researchers at Harvard Business School, there’s no gender gap when it comes to thinking that a promotion is within reach. But women are more likely than men to view the path to power as less desirable, and paved with potentially negative
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Anne-Marie Slaughter, author of Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family, recently wrote in the New York Times that today’s fast paced, ultra competitive workplace is losing women. America has unlocked the talent of its women in a way that few nations can match; girls are outpacing boys academically and are now entering the work force
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Today’s women-helping-women movement is all about collaboration, not competition. However, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take credit for your work. In fact today it’s more important than ever to know your value and to give credit where credit is due—and that includes yourself. A recent article at DailyWorth.com addresses this very thing and while your
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Women are being punished for being forceful, and it’s costing them in several ways. According to a new study by New York Times bestselling authors, Joseph Grenny and David Maxfield, a woman’s perceived competency drops by 35% and her perceived worth falls by $15,088 when she is judged as being forceful or assertive. Compared to the
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Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression – Margaret Sanger Ten years ago researchers began to notice that the image of working women was changing. The employment firm Lee Hecht
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Claire Cook was born to be a writer, but like most of us, life didn’t give her the Great American Novel on a silver platter. Now, she has written the story of how she finally grabbed her birthright when she realized she may never write a book in her lifetime. In Never Too Late: Your
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That women have yet to achieve equity in earnings is old news and getting older by the decade. Look at the facts – women make up half the workplace but only 18% of top leadership positions across all sectors, and they’ve been stuck there for almost two decades, earning 78 cents for every dollar a
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Think you can’t afford to take a vacation this year? You may not be able NOT to afford to. Whether a stay-cation or a trip to some exotic location, you need to give yourself the gift that keeps on giving – real time to regenerate away from work. Vacations alleviate job stress and burnout. That’s
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, there has never been a better time to be a woman. In 2014 there were almost 9.1 million female-owned businesses in the United States, generating more than $1.4 trillion (yes, with a “t”) in revenue. It’s also important to note that the percentage of women who
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