Working women

by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Mommy Track'd - Two Cents on Working Motherhood)

Dear Maureen Dowd:

Thank you so for your recent column, Blue is the New Black. Thanks for enlightening me about how women today are SO unhappy because of all the choices heaped upon us since the feminist revolution began in 1972. I always knew my troubles were all Gloria Steinem’s fault.

Thanks for explaining that:

• Unlike today, before the 1970s, women in America felt greater well-being than men (I’d like to insert a smiley face here, please)
• That having stepped into male-dominated realms (you don’t say which ones, but I assume you mean paid work like journalism, politics, medicine, academia, professional sports, television and entertainment, and perhaps the gym) we women have put more demands upon our wittle selves

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by Nataly Kogan for Work It, Mom!

Another title for this post could be: What the f* is wrong with us, women!

I read in an article over the weekend that according to the Workplace Bullying Institute (is there an institute for everything?) when women bully others at work they target other women 70% of the time, while men tend to target women and men equally. Workplace bully-like behavior is an ugly thing on its own, but the fact that women undermine each other and are nasty to each other more often just plain sucks. (I was going to write something more eloquent, but this topic doesn’t deserve it.) Read More »

<p><img style="width:135px;" alt="" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/phugc/wvsQTLXPD1A2/photos/1727062ff25cb937a3e129a07b0bdacf/ori_0a558072529e39.jpg?ug_____DcumrRRb2" align="left" width="135" height="106">These tips for&nbsp;increasing your job security are&nbsp;from Ethan Ewing, a financial&nbsp;expert at Bills.com.&nbsp;First, he offers the bad news about unemployment stats -- and then the good news about how easy it can be to increase your&nbsp;job security!</p> <p>“In the face of rising unemployment, the best thing workers can do is be prepared, financially and professionally,” says Ethan Ewing, president of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bills.com/"> Bills.com</a> . He says that&nbsp;the United States lost 240,000 jobs in October 2008, and the unemployment rate increased from 6.1 percent to 6.5 percent. Since the beginning of 2008, U.S. employment has decreased by 1.2 million jobs, with most of those losses occurring in the past three months.</p> <p>Here are Ewing’s&nbsp;practical tips for increasing your job security so you can achieve your career goals. Read More »