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This cnbc video shares three strongly voiced opinions on the gender wage gap, its possible causes and its existance.
Is it because of women’s lifestyle choices? Are women less ambitious and poor salary negotiators? Is it really gender discrimination? Take a look and decide.

Photo credit:  Jacob Wackerhausen
A 2007 study, Women Matter, by McKinsey & Company, concludes that companies with a greater percentage of women in top management perform the best.  McKinsey evaluated the organisational excellence of 231 public and private companies and correlated it with each companies financial performance and gender diversity.  The study found that companies with three or more [...]

Changes in the workforce are making returning to work for college-educated, experienced professionals easier according to a recent WSJ article by Toddi Gutner. Many corporate recruiters recognize the coming reduction in the workforce caused by the retirement of baby boomers and are paying increased attention to work/life balance necessary to attract Gen X & Y workers.     
The legal, financial, marketing and consulting [...]

Each year Working Mother magazine selects its top 100 best companies for working mothers.  The top 10 are listed here:

Baptist Health South Florida
Booz Allen Hamilton
Ernst & Young
General Mills
IBM
KPMG
The McGraw-HIll Companies
PricewaterhouseCoopers
UBS
Wachovia 

Working Mother evaluates seven criteria to define its top 100; workforce profile; compensation; child care; flexibility; time off & leaves; family-friendly programs; and company culture.  Flexibility [...]

Photo credit:  Ben Blankenburg
Just how hard is it do re-enter the work force? In the past few years there have been articles and research saying it has gotten easier and there have been articles and research that said it is hard or just not feasible for women to successfully return to their professional careers after [...]

Today I attended the Career Relaunch Forum at the Lake Forest School of Management.  On hand were hiring managers and recruiters from consulting firms Accenture and McKinsey & Company; Aquent, a marketing and creative placement firm; and the School of Management’s hiring manager.  All spoke about efforts they are making to actively recruit women returning to work. 
 Some [...]

Listen to this 2004 wbur pbs Boston On Pointe radio broadcast “Women Returning to Work.”  Tom Ashbrook asks some tough questions about resume gaps, new technology and emotional issues of experts Hilary Stout, former reporter from the Wall Street Journal, Mary Shapiro, assistant professor from Simmons School of Management and Kathryn Sollman, co-founder of Women at [...]

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 [...]

A  2007 study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that from 2006 until 2016, labor force participation will decrease.  Baby boomers are retiring and the “baby bust” generation immediately following is smaller.  
An estimated 4.6 million more workers are expected to leave the work force in the 2006-2016 period than left during 1996-2006.  Only 1.5 million more people are projected [...]

Welcome to my blog.  It’s a news blog about women returning to work after leaving to stay home with their children written by a women going through the process. Recent news, resources and trends will be discussed.  I’ll provide advice from experts as well as stories of women who have made this transition. 
Two years ago I started to consider returning [...]