A study of Swedish women breast cancer survivors has found that most of them return to work after receiving treatment. Three-fourths of the 505 women surveyed went back to the workforce 16 months after having been diagnosed with the Big C.
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Women are dismally under-represented in corporate Asia, with only 6 percent of them seated on the boards and 8 percent on executive committees of 744 companies. Asia’s results are at rock bottom compared to the figures posted of women corporate leaders in Europe where 17 percent are in boards and 10 percent in executive committees, and in the United States where representation is at 15 percent and 14 percent, respectively.
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The amount of time an entrepreneur puts into his/her business is directly correlated with the amount of reward as a result. The same goes for motherhood. However, running your own business allows for one of the most important words in the Mother’s Dictionary: flexibility. If I need to come into the office early because I know I have a baseball game to catch later, I will do that. The time is still there, just in a different slot.
The “do more with less” assumes that there is a significant quantity of “wasted” time yet to be wrung from the average worker. It assumes that you can agglomerate all those unused ergs and semi-ergs into chunks of usable time and effort. Extraction requires aggressive measures to reap that last little bit of productivity. In fact, it’s not unlike a violent mining process known as fracking.
I applaud the media focus on this changing dynamic of families and how that impacts the professional lives of women, we need to ensure that this transition appears in a positive light. To gain equal status at work, we desperately need it at home and that won’t happen unless we stop treating dads who raise children as a curiosity that requires our pity.
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Feeling invisible is a pretty big setback, and it can torpedo a young woman’s confidence. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus.
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It’s time to put an end to the “queen bee” myth. Not only do women support each other at higher rates than men, they earn more money doing so.
Some say yes, most say no. So what’s a woman to do in emotionally-charged situations when the only way to find release is to open the floodgates?
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Being nice is great when going through school or getting together with friends, but the quality should be used carefully in business, especially when coming from a woman. Here’s how to manage that characteristic.
To ease the transition from domestic to professional work, parents must start coming forward and talking about the skills gleaned at home and how they apply to the workplace. Only then will the role of parenting and “time off” to raise children be viewed as a benefit rather than a black mark on your resume. Corporate employers look favorably on veterans and athletes, so why not stay-at-home mothers?