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I think being “normal” is just plainly overrated! There are so many people in this country that want to fit in with everyone else that they lose sight of the fact that being different is something to truly take pride in. Now, to be fair in this day and age where ...
Read more...Entering 2011, I have been thinking a lot about images of disability and how so often popular culture presents them with such varying degrees from the transcendent to the grotesque. Over the past several months we have been privy to these two extremes within the ...
Read more...Like most working mothers, the hours of 6 – 9 in the morning are some of the busiest in the day. During that time, I make breakfast, iron clothes, leave notes for sitters, help find lost dinosaurs in the sofa, and negotiate playdates while applying makeup and ...
Read more...While all working women would benefit from access to paid sick leave, the latest data from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) shows that 44 million workers in the U.S. did not have access to a single paid sick day during 2010.
A growing segment ...
In the wave of reaction to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, the focus has been primarily on the kids and whether the Chinese parenting methods described could be considered child abuse. What has not been discussed is that Asian-style intensive ...
Read more...There are fewer than 80 women in the US House of Representatives. Some of them are moms. Most of them are women on a mission to do what they think is right for America and for generations to come. It is a small club of women in Congress and this weekend ...
Read more...For work life advocates, 2010 was something of a wait-and-see year. With economic conditions still tight, employees weren’t stepping up to ask for flexibility. They weren’t asking for much of anything.
But if ever there was a time when the words ...
Read more...Supercharging your career requires setting up “an inside job.” And I’m not talking about robbing a bank!
You need a sponsor—someone “on the inside.” It’s a person with clout who can advocate for you from behind closed doors, fight for you to get great ...
Yesterday, we were speaking to a person who took a five-year career break after a long career in finance. She said she had a list of about 100 contacts with whom she was planning on getting back in touch and was trying to figure out how to approach them. ...
Read more...Stress has been around since the first human tried to light a fire and failed, only to have his girlfriend show him how it's done. Telling your brain that "not having enough time in the day" does not equate to "being eaten by a sabre-tooth tiger" doesn't work. ...
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