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Twitter: @CarolEvansWM
As the founder and President of Working Mother Media I have been involved with the advancement of working moms for 30 years. I am often a keynote speaker on the subject of work-life balance, the advancement of women, barriers facing women of color, and leadership. When asked to appear on major talk shows including The Early Show, The Today Show, Oprah, Good Morning America, PBS's To the Contrary and on hundreds of radio shows or to comment in newspapers nationwide, I love to tell the world how hard working mothers work to keep their families and the businesses they work for moving and growing. I told many of my stories in the award-winning book: This is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto.
Join me in this amazing conversation. By the way, I would not be a working mom without my two great kids - all grown up - Julia Rose and Robert Scott; and my husband Bob Coulombe is by my side every step of this journey. Let me know what you are thinking!
Just when you thought being a man couldn't get any better comes a new study from the business schools at Yale, University of Texas-Austin and Harvard that will give women around the country a reason for penis envy. The study finds that men are requesting and taki ... Read more...
I love anniversaries, and I believe celebrating them is very important. Anniversaries remind us of where we started and how much work/energy/ care it took to get where we are now. They help us to dream about progressing to the next critical milestone.
My wedd ... Read more...
I recently gave a speech about my career. This was a new topic for me, as I usually speak about work life balance—sharing stories about my gallery of guilt, asking for help, co-parenting and housework, and just straight talk.
I ruminated on this topic a lot. ... Read more...
I love our Best Solutions Issue and want to wrap it up with five solutions for the most common problems I hear from working moms around the country.
Problem 1: I ... Read more...
I have a 20 percent dilemma. Twenty percent of the new Senate is women. Hooray! Or do I mean shame on US! I am struggling to be positive about
20 percent because I see that figure, or something close to it, everywhere:
20% of Fortune 1 ... Read more...
Working Americans at every level are being asked to produce more than ever before. The result for working moms: reverse guilt. “I feel this haunting sense of guilt about my work—not my family!” revealed a senior manager during the Q&A at a speech I gave recently ... Read more...
Best foot forward. Best friends forever. All the best. Man’s best friend. You’re the best! Best in show. Best thing in the world. Live your best life. Father knows best. Best in class.
Being best means a lot to everyone. There is a quality to best-ness that w ... Read more...
Launching a new initiative is hard work. We’re compulsive leaders here at Working Mother Media, so we frequently find ourselves out on a limb, railing for or against a reality that others don’t see—yet. • We were crying about profit-and-loss positio ... Read more...
When we first launched Working Mother magazine, we met with a lot ofhostility. People thought we were revolutionaries who wanted to break down the family structure. “No,” we said, “we want to help women who have decided to have both family and career. ... Read more...
1. I want our husbands/significant others to celebrate Mother’s Day 2012 by permanently taking equal responsibility for the house being acceptably clean and organized. It’s not just our house; it’s also their house. We working moms are ready to give up 50 p ... Read more...
