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NEW! MomsToWork Job Board

NEW! MomsToWork Job Board

photo credit: carianoff Are you a mom who is thinking about going back to work? Are you looking for a new family friendly job? Or are you curious about career development? On MomsToWork, we write about women and work, and we realize that job boards are just one tool to be used during a job [...]

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Working Mother’s 2011 Best Companies for Hourly Workers

photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives We talk a lot about women and work here, and we’re very much aware that working mothers are in all sorts of job functions and positions – including hourly work. Hourly workers are what make up our economy and according to the US Department of Labor, the 20 most prevalent [...]

Women still earn less despite other gains, says White House report

photo credit: imperiousimages The report, Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being, released yesterday, is said by the White House to be the most comprehensive report on the state of women in 50 years. There is nothing surprising really in the report. Most of us know the data. What is surprising, shocking and [...]

Are you a tiger mom or neutered pushover?

Image via Wikipedia The latest game among my group of friends? Rating each other on a scale of zero, a pushover, to Tiger Mom, a fierce mom like Amy Chua, who sprung to fame via The Wall Street Journal about her new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. “Oh yeah, she’s tough. She’s a [...]

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Join the NOB club now

Time to hit the sales and join the NOB club. Don’t know what that is? Read our post on how to buy basics that’ll rock your closet and your image.

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Suits are dead!!!

Is the working woman’s suit dead? Should it be? What do you think? Jill Mikols Etesse says it is. She gives her views on professional women’s suits and separates. Jill spends her free time tearing apart girlfriends’ closets and making new outfits out of old ones (they pay her with champagne). We pay her with kisses … virtual ones. Add yours below in the comments.

Tiger Tales and MyTales Digital book and app giveaway winners announced!

Tiger Tales and MyTales Digital book and app giveaway winners announced!

Last week we reviewed two great books and iPhone/ iPad apps, Hush Little Baby and Sleep, Baby Sleep from Tiger Tales Books and MyTales Digital.  Because we thought the books were so great we wanted to share copies of Hush Little Baby, Sleep, Baby Sleep and Rock-a-Bye Baby in both the printed book form and [...]

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A place where you can be excited to be pregnant

What I liked about this video from Marriott, to mark its inclusion in the Working Mother Magazine top 100 list, was the way Peggy Fang Roe, VP, Marriott International, was so excited about being pregnant with her second child: “It is place where you can openly be excited that you are pregnant, expecting a baby, [...]

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Best places for working moms to work

If you are a stay-at-home (SAHM) mom thinking about going back to work,  or a working mom or dad trying to switch jobs, add the 2010 Working Mother 100 Best Companies list to your research. It gives a description of each company’s policies, the number of women among top earners, etc.  Each profile includes an [...]

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New guidelines for moms who nurse at work

A bathroom is not the right place for nursing mothers. If your boss thinks it is okay, tell him or her to go eat their lunch in there. A new fact sheet makes this clear. Employers are required to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion [...]