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Here is an interesting abc interview with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps and founder and president of the Center for Work-Life Policy. 
Take a look at some interesting statistics from  Sylvia’s research:

75% of working women will take a career break
90% of those women want to return to work
60% of returning workers want to work [...]

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A new study called The Athena Factor:  Reversing the Brain Drain in Science, Engineering and Technology, was recently published in the Harvard Business Review. 
Conducted by the Center for Work-LIfe Policy, the study found women represent 41% of scientists, engineers and technology specialists in entry to mid-level positions.  After an average of 10 years, however, 52% of women [...]

According to a 2007 study published in the American Sociological Review, titled“Working for the Woman? Female Managers and the Gender Wage Gap”, by Philip N. Cohen and Matt L. Huffman, women who work in companies where there are women in senior management earn more than women who work in firms with only men in senior management. 
This study [...]

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According to a 2007 study done in the UK, moms are “significantly happier” if they work.  The study surveyed 3856 couples from the British Household Survey Panel and asked both women and men to judge their life satisfaction as it related to work.
Interestingly, both working parents (father and mother) reported greater life satisfaction when they worked. Men’s [...]

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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 [...]

For those of you that would like to read my interview with Vivian, here it is.
With me today is Vivian Steir Rabin, co-author of the book, Back on the Career Track.  Vivian is a Harvard MBA who runs her own executive search business and consults on the topic of career reentry.  She is the mother of five [...]

I spoke with Vivian Steir Rabin, author of Back on the Career Track. We discussed the current marketplace for women returning to work and she offered some great advice on handling resume gaps, networking and making the back to work transition easier for your family.  Give it a listen.

“It’s a myth — based on a handful of anecdotes in the popular press about white, high-income women — that women are opting out of the workforce in droves, ” said  Mary Shapiro of the Simmons School of Management. 
“Women are at the leading edge of shifting the career paradigm for everyone. They’re no longer acting [...]