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If you find yourself snapping at your kids during breakfast, fuming in the car after work or losing it during the dinner-and-homework scramble, it’s time for a mad-mommy makeover.
From "The Feminine Mystique" to the “Opt-Out Revolution,” every decade has its debate over a mother’s decision to work or stay home. The Working Mother Research Institute has commissioned a new survey examining what women are choosing now when it comes to work and life. And, crucially, why?
Being sandwiched between caring for young kids and sick relatives is no picnic. But there are ways to lighten your load.
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Each year the National Association for Female Executives and Entrepreneurs (NAFE), from a mountain of nominations, selects a group of women to award as "Women of Excellence." The women selected this year are punching holes in the glass ceiling, revolutionizing philanthropic organizations and advising fellow women who are rising through the ranks. It is a dynamic group that includes a heart surgeon, a U.S. Navy Officer fighting for women's rights in the military and an American Express executive who has become a go-to office mentor.
Alcohol and drug abuse has become a centralized part of American life, with increasingly high numbers of women turning to drink and prescription pills for stress relief.
More working moms are soothing frazzled nerves with an extra glass of Cabernet or a borrowed Xanax. Whether alcohol or prescription drugs, could this trend toward self-medication spin into addiction? Here, moms reveal their secret lives as addicts and how they freed themselves by getting sober.
You may not know what to do if someone you work with has a drug or alcohol problem. Here are the best ways to help.
Youngsters with alcoholic moms are especially vulnerable.
Alcoholics often reach out for help only when the consequences of their drinking become painful enough. For many, admitting they need help is the most difficult step. Here, treatment options.
If you answer three or more of these questions with a yes, it's a sign that your drinking patterns are harmful and you should consider consulting your physician.
Working Mother asked working moms what they think about their lives. Our biggest surprise was finding out that how you think about work colors everything. If you consider your job a career then you seem to be happier with life as a whole.
Boosting employee engagement while also promoting flexibility and training have enabled these Top 10 Working Mother 100 Best Companies to thrive during uncertain economic times. Here, chief executives share their creative ideas–and why they believe it's never been so important to invest in their workforce with strong work-life programs and more.By Irene Kwon
Friends of Karen provides emotional, financial and advocacy support for children with cancer or other life- threatening illnesses and their families. Our goal is to help keep them stable, functioning, and able to cope. Submitted by Friends of Karen.
The dangers of cell phone talking and texting while driving.
By Nathan Constable, Rob Jewell and Yvonne Siu, with research help from student attorneys Matthew Cullimore and Taylor Jones and from Marcy Karin, associate clinical professor and director, Work-Life Policy Unit, Civil Justice Clinic, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.
Through the life and death of his young son, Tyler, born September 23, 1995, Patrick Doughtie needed to find meaning. He shares with Working Mother his personal story of how he helped battle his son’s cancer, the complications in life, and how he came to write the movie Letters to God about a boy with cancer who inspires those around him, including his working mom, a nurse. By Patrick Doughtie
Working mom pediatric oncologist, Dr. Denise Adams of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center shares her story of being inspired by her patients, especially a teenager with a rare cancer.By Denise Adams, MD
