Top Women at Facebook, Yahoo, and Nike on Work-Life Balance

CNN Money posted “How High-Achieving Women Balance Work and Family” this past Monday. The article features perspectives on work-life balance in high-achievement positions from Sheryl Sandberg (COO, Facebook), Carol Bartz (CEO, Yahoo), and Jean Jackson (Direct-to-Consumer President, Nike).

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Domestic Violence in the Workplace

“Domestic Violence: Your Coworker’s Dark Secret” is a Fortune online article that blew my mind.  First, I was surprised to see that someone in the established media was willing to take on the subject; Second, it’s a well-written, well-researched, and heart-rending article that captivated my attention.  From the article:
Now a small but growing group of [...]

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Potpourri Friday

I’ve been able to catch up on my blogs today, and wanted to put together some interesting, if topically disparate, posts that I came across:
Web 2.0 applications are coming, going, and denting companies’ reputations. See “Losing Face,” about how British Airways and Virgin Atlantic were dinged by their employee’s posts on Facebook, and then [...]

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Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies List

Working Mother released its list of the 100 Best Companies for–what else?–working mothers.  The editors looked at seven areas:
workforce profile, compensation, child care, flexibility, time off and leaves, family-friendly programs and company culture.
For this year’s 100 Best, we gave particular weight to family-friendly programs, flexibility, leave policies and benefits for part-timers.
Accompanying the list is [...]

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NYTime’s Motherlode blog

Lisa Belkin’s article “Palin Talk”, found in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, caught my eye today.  In it she examines reactions to Sarah Palin’s take on work-life balance, and how the candidate’s decision to take on a larger political role while balancing family concerns has us all investigating our own take on the balance [...]

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Women MBAs–More Likely to Take the Mommy Track?

A research piece coming out of the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business finds that women MBAs are more likely to opt out of the workforce when becoming mothers, as opposed to other degree holders.  The study, by Jane Leber Herr and Catherine Wolframz, followed 1,000 Harvard undergrad alumni and found that over [...]

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