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By Helen Jonsen
I am a veteran journalist who has had the opportunity to cover stories for news on three continents, and be the interviewer or fly on the wall when business and political decisions are discussed or made. My kaleidoscope career from print to broadcasting to the web while raising a big family of four kids offers an interesting perspective on life. I hope you agree. Let's engage in a conversation about life-work-family balance. Even with all my experience, I still struggle with that everyday!
Your daughter has a one day school event and you have a business commitment.  How many working mothers have been faced with that choice?  In the end, we know it comes down to weighing both sides. Andrea Jung, the chairman and CEO of Avon Products, Inc., wa ... Read more...
Two of our daughters have been performing in school plays for the last number of years.  Big muscial productions with 60 to 100 kids in them.  They are the kind of school plays where title roles are split on different nights and acts, filled by different p ... Read more...
I have been reading some of these great blog posts here on MomBlog  (momblog.workingmother.com).  You are writing about women in leadership, the power of Mom's purse, the questions of life/work balance.  These are the kinds of conversations we should ... Read more...
She was a working actress and the mother of young two sons.  And now she is gone.  Natasha Richardson was the beautiful woman, remembered by many for her different roles.  In my house, we described her as the working mom in The Parent Trap. In ... Read more...
I spent last night writing an opening speech for a Girl Scouts Corporate luncheon I am speaking at this week in New York’s Hudson Valley.  The council, called Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, just above New York City, serves 34,000 ... Read more...
White House Council on Women and Girls announced today by President Obama. It would be nice to think that my daughters live in a world where we do not need councils to help the world remember that women and girls should be treated fairly, and by fairly, we me ... Read more...
Today's Daily Bread — a little food for thought. Are you swimming underwater? Not in a pool. In red ink?  The last few days I have been reading lots of news stories based on Core Logic's real estate survey that pointed to where the most precipitous ... Read more...
Welcome to  Daily Bread - the place to get a daily helping of news pertinent to all of us... This Week's headline: US Unemployment hits 25-year high.  8.1%  That means many working mothers ar ... Read more...
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