Young women now earning more than men

Looking for cities where young women earn more than men? Yes, it is possible!
Tell your daughters and young friends to try Atlanta, Memphis and New York. They’re just a few of the cities where young, college-educated women are earning more than men.
“The greatest disparity is in Atlanta, where young, childless women made 121% [...]

Bad child care could turn my beautiful baby into a hoodlum

Just saw this …
“If you thought that the quality of the child care your toddler got wouldn’t matter when he or she was a teenager, think again.”
A new longitudinal study of more than 1,300 children finds the quality of child care does matter, even having an impact on them when they are teens.
Poor quality child [...]

Blame the moms: We suck! (NOT)

We COULD blame crap advertising, crap school lunches, crap #worklife …
But no, another study blames working moms! Yes, now we are making our kids fat by our selfishness, our insane desire to work, put in long hour to pay off mortgages and buy school books, or self indulgently, have a career.
It made me so mad [...]

Stay at home mom returning to work: How moms can take the first step

This guest post is by Nancy Anderson, the author of Job Search for Moms.
Resume is NOT the beginning for moms starting a job search, says Nancy Anderson
When deciding whether to jump back into the workforce, many women think all they need is an updated resume.
Unfortunately, they get to the first heading, and stop typing. They [...]

Get back to work with these top Twitter peeps

Twitter ninjas get moms back to work

Are you a mom looking to get back to work? Changing jobs? Twitter is a goldmine if you can weed out the tweat from the twaff  … oops, the wheat from the chaff.
We asked Katrina Kibben, Monster.com’s social media ninja, for her top Twitter people to follow to get [...]

Applying for a job? Try to get in within 24 hours

MomstoWork’s career coach Aunt Jobby got this question:

Dear Aunt Jobby
How quickly should I apply for jobs? It often takes me a week or so to redraft my resume, cover letter and get the supporting documents together. Is that too slow? Gimme a break, I am a working mom with too many kids …
Sleepless (and [...]

Who’s afraid of talking work-life balance? Ahem, men

Jonathan Prial is still unusual. He’s a top exec, a dad and a vocal advocate in his company, on his blog BalancedBits and in his personal life of the need for more work and family balance … and for lots more discussion on its importance by men as well as women.
In this guest post, he [...]

Why are workplaces still designed for families of the 1960s?

Why are our work places and schools still designed for the working families of the 1960s, the Donna Reeds of this world?
That’s one finding of the latest humdinger of a report on work life imbalance in the U.S. by the Center for American Progress, The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict, The Poor, the Professionals, and the [...]

Buy a stamp, get a job?

Here’s a gob smacking, wake ‘em up, bring recruiters-back-from-the-dead job application … enough to get the weariest, most cynical employer to take a look.
The incredible job application, written in the style of a press release, was sent by mail to GasPedal.com, the word of mouth marketing company headed by the very clever Andy Sernovitz, who [...]

How to be an effective helicopter parent

Pity! You can’t accompany your kids to an interview or answer an interviewer’s questions, but you can help them in other practical ways when they start job hunting.
It is a fact of life that kids are staying in the family home longer, often while they hunt for their first jobs.
In this guest post, expert Heather [...]