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I recieved thought-provoking questions from a reader about health-care benefits and salaries on my Mom Corps post. I contacted Mom Corps with her questions.  Marketing Director of Mom Corps Caroline Evans’ responses are below.  
Q:  Part-time work can be great for moms with young kids at home.  But, what about the Mom who is a single parent, raising young children alone, and is need of [...]

The desire and need to contribute to family finances and not be dependent on a spouse’s salary is a strong motivator in my decision to return to work. 
Leslie Bennetts’ book The Feminine Mistake:  Are We Giving Up Too Much? discusses this issue at length.   Bennetts defines women’s decisions to leave work as a mistake because of the [...]

Family support while transitioning back to work, or school in my case, is very important.  Many women feel self-conscious or lack the confidence to succeed in their new environments and worry that their children will not adjust well to mom being away from home.  
I know I was nervous about starting graduate school with students half my [...]

According to a Newsweek article,  TLC’s Secret Life of A Soccer Mom has received some harsh criticism from viewers.  One of the women featured in the program decided to return to work and unfortunately this sparked the “Mommy Wars” fire on the show’s message board.  
In my own experience, I never encountered a mommy war.  What I did notice was [...]

Mom Corps is an employment agency dedicated to helping working moms find family-friendly, flexible work and acts as an executive recruiter for employers looking for working moms.  Mom Corps is a matchmaker for moms looking for work and employers looking for experienced professional women for part-time or project work or full-time positions.
Mom Corps typically places college-educated women with [...]

According to a Bureau of Labor Statisctics report, nearly all of the job growth from 2006 until 2016 will be in the service industry.  Professional and business services and health care and social assistance services will account for more than half of the increase in total employment.   The top five sectors projected to have the greatest [...]

Great news! Carol Fishman Cohen and her co-author Vivian Steir Rabin have agreed to provide their expert opinion for Mom Goes Back.
Both women are Harvard educated MBA’a who left established careers to stay home with their children and then returned to work.  They also host Career Relaunch Forum’s for women going back to work.   See [...]

I was happy to recieve the following comment from Carol Fishman Cohen, author of Back on the Career Track.
Hi Eileen,
Thank you so much for this post discussing our book Back on the Career Track. It is timely because we are holding an all day conference on returning to work after a career break in the [...]

Parents TV’s It Moms have some fun in this video.  Here are things not to do when you return to work.
 
 

In an article from msnbc.com, CEO John Challenger of the Chicago-based, outplacement consulting firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, stated the following:
          “There is much more understanding today of the choice people make to leave the workforce, whether it is to volunteer, work part-time or put more time into raising their children.  The automatic discounting of that time [...]