Attitudes have changed toward mothers who do go back to work after having children, said Laurel Ann Jones, a licensed clinical social worker at Psych’d On Main, 951 Main St. in Grand Junction. Jones, who primarily sees working women, said she hears few complaints anymore by working mothers about employers concerned about missed work time.

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companies and governments can ill-afford to ignore a woman’s needs when it comes to balancing her work and home life. With 60% of the university graduates in the United States and European Union being women (with many other parts of the world following suit), women are an important resource. In order to tap into their potential, governments and companies have to think of ways to facilitate having a family and working at the same time.

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Oregon State research shows that there is no one reason why women executives are twice as likely to leave their jobs just before reaching the top, but we do know for certain that a woman’s traditional role as primary caretaker still plays a major part.

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Despite organizations’ efforts to achieve a diverse workforce, the majority (70 percent) do not have a clearly defined strategy or philosophy for the development of women into leadership roles, according to the new Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer in conjunction with Talent Management and Diversity Management magazines.

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Within the financial services industry more than five times as many women as men lost their jobs from mid-2007 to mid-2010, according to government data, and the gender pay gap for full-time managers widened as well. Six current and former female employees of Citigroup filed a class-action lawsuit against the institution, one of the “big four” consumer banks in the U.S. Host Michel Martin speaks with Dorly Hazan-Amir, a current female employee who’s also a plaintiff in the suit, Douglas Wigdor, the plaintiffs’ attorney, and Joan Williams, director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law.

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As reported in The GlassHammer…While it’s great news that the human resources professionals are creating a sense of inclusiveness, that hasn’t quite filtered down to the Average Joe in the office. Or the Senior Joe, for that matter. There are many men who ‘get it’ but there are still plenty who don’t. So how do you bring men onboard with gender initiatives, and start tackling this issue together?

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As reported in The GlassHammer, a  recent Harvard Business Review article, “Why Men Still Get More Promotions than Women,” reports on some of the challenges emerging women face in mentoring programs. It points out the difference between mentoring and sponsoring and says that men are better at finding career-building mentors than women.

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In her new book, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, U.S. author Gloria Feldt says no one is holding women back in the workplace but themselves. Ms. Feldt, former chief executive officer and president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, tells The Globe and Mail the time is ripe for women to reach full gender equality, if only they would seize it.

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“Danica Patrick did it. Hilary Clinton did it. And now droves of females in the financial services industry are doing it – succeeding in what was once a man’s world. As this male-dominated industry continues to change, so do those who represent it.”

A post on Colonial Life’s blog addresses the recruiting and retention of women – reasons and benefits – and quotes my client Heidi Spilotros of Mass Mutual, one of the industry leaders in this area.

Bottom line, to reach the huge and growing women’s market, the most effective strategy is to recruit women as talent. The more women you have, the more you will get. As I teach my clients and audiences, women have different motivators and communication styles than men, and those differences must be addressed effectively in order to be successful attracting female talent and customers. It’s not rocket science! Just awareness and easily learned communication and management skills.

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