Kathy Caprino wrote an excellent article i found on Article Snatch, discussing the opportunites and obstacles facing professional women both now and when the economy recovers. Women may make great strides during the comeback, but is it what they really want and need??? Some food for thought…

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The Glass Hammer does it again with a good article covering a Diversity and Inclusion Conference. But get this: The Exelon Corporation ’s chief executive officer, John Rowe, ruffled some feathers at the Corporate Diversity & Inclusion Conference in Chicago last week when he said in his keynote speech, “If you want work-life balance, you don’t belong on an executive board.”  Just before saying that, he had explained that Exelon values diversity and that he has employees of a large variety of cultures and creeds.

Ruffled feathers????!!!!  Read the article

The Glass Hammer has posted another excellent article, briefly discussing criteria that McKinsey found to be of great importance to women leaders and their retention.

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Very nice article in The Glass Hammer advising bringing passion and joy into your life to increase fulfillment as parents and professionals. Find what you love doing, aside from work and family, then do it!

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The spring issue of strategy-business online includes a short but sweet article reporting the results of a survey conducted to determine bias by managers toward remote employees. Bottom line - base evaluations on performance, not on face time.

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Researcher and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett found that women don’t necessarily want to leave work forever to raise families. Sometimes they don’t want to leave at all. Employers need to find new ways to retain a valuable part of their employee population.

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Feminist Law Professors blog has a good write up about the opt-out revolution and how it has evolved over the past five years. It’s a summary of a keynote speech by Lisa Belkin, the author of the original article about this controversial phenomenon. Here’s the opening line: “It’s not just that the workplace has failed women. It is also that women are rejecting the workplace.”

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Alpha Mummy blog writes: “Everybody wants it, nobody has any clue about how to get it. That’s because the idea is all wrong, according to Dr Steven Poelmans, co-founder of the International Centre of Work and Family at Madrid’s IESE Business School. “I don’t like the word balance,” he says, since it means if you put more into one side (say, work or family responsibilities), there’s less time for another. Instead companies and employees need to think about harmonising work life, prioritising things in the various parts of life as you need you to. “Work-life balance is about having a sense of meaning and purpose in life,” says Poelmans.”

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Cathy Arnst of BusinessWeek.com writes about the 20% rule for women in leadership:

“Seems that the glass ceiling hasn’t budged in years, no matter how many women enter the workforce. An upcoming report from The White House Project, a non-partisan organization set up to promote women in politics, finds that women occupy around 20% of leadership positions in business, journalism, politics and law firms. The rate is much lower in Fortune 500 firms and higher in non-profits (where salaries are typically low). And it’s been that way for years.”

Arnst has some compelling ammo in her article, click here.

Joyce Rosenberg, AP, writes in SFGate for the San Francisco Chronicle that tele-commuting has its pros and cons and requires a different management style. As I read the posting, it seems to me that most of the adjustment needs to come from the employee, to stay in touch and connected. The manager interviewed freely admits most of his on-site employees communicate primarily by email anyway, so why he feels phone calls are more necessary with his tele-commuting staff is not understood. Possibly a trust issue? He also says his tele-commuting still does the same good work. That, readers, is the bottom line.

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