I just hired someone to take care of my house for $50,000 a year: A house manager. This is in addition to the full-time nanny I have. And the cleaning service. And the assistant I have at work.
I know the first thing going through your mind is that I'm loaded and I'm lucky. But I'm [...]

I was thinking about blogging about job hunts today. Or managing up. Or one of the hundred or so topics that are always safe to go to if you blog about careers. But I decided that I can’t ignore the fact that someone hacked into my RSS feed and put a bazillion porn links at [...]

Two days ago, I called my friend to cut a deal. I needed to make a partnership fast, and we have been doing business together for years. I knew she could push something through her company that would make me look good.
We ended up spending an hour on the phone, and she mentioned she was [...]

In the past few years, postpartum depression has had a lot of press. Brooke Shields had it, Marie Osmond had it. Tom Cruise denied it exists. All good for raising awareness. Now we all know it exists, and maybe some of us know the warning signs. But no one talks about this: What if you [...]

Did you see the rally for Obama in Los Angeles last Sunday? It rocked my world: Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and California First Lady Maria Shriver talking to a packed stadium at UCLA. (Watch the video here.)
For one thing, Michelle Obama is a great speaker in her own right and she is teaching us how to talk [...]

It's a myth that time away from the workforce will undermine your career. This myth is based on outdated ideas of the workplace. And it's an important myth to bust, because in today's post-feminist workplace, the majority of women say that given a choice, they would not choose full-time work when their kids are young.
Here [...]

My brother just started school at the University of Iowa, and this was his first caucus. He describes a room totally crammed full of young people: "It was basically all the students caucusing for Obama and the adults dispersing among the other candidates."
In the end, in his Iowa City precinct, the students sat victorious at [...]

Harvard just announced that it will change the timeline of business school enrollment as a way to attract "a wider range of applicants" Read: Women. Right now women start businesses at two times the rate of men and women do better in school than men do, but women make up less than one-third of the [...]

I loved listeing to this interview with Sallie Krawcheck so much. I have been following Sallie's career for years, and I had no idea I was going to see her in person until I showed up for the Forbes Executive Women's Forum for a speaking engagement, and there she was, speaking right before I did. [...]

When I founded my first company I didn't have time to find someone to date, but I knew that I wanted to get married. So I followed all the advice I had read about how you should tell people what you want in order to get what you want. I started telling everyone that I [...]

There's been a lot of media focus on how the workplace has changed since Generation Y came on the scene. But what about Gen Y women?
From the moment baby boomers joined the workforce, women made it their mission to create a fair playing field for everyone. But after decades of feminists plowing down the boys' [...]

Is it okay to look for a new job while I'm at my current job?
Yes. You have to be able to look for a job while you have a job or it's indentured servitude. Most people in their twenties change jobs every two years. At any given moment 70% of the workforce is job hunting, [...]

The topic of should women work or should they stay home is a baby boomer fetish topic, with Leslie Bennetts being the current poster girl.
Joan Walsh, writing at Salon, points out that we are generally sick of baby boomer women telling younger women what to do and what not to do. But we are also [...]

There is a media feeding frenzy over the last study released from the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation about the wage gap: All hands on deck! Women don't make as much as men do! There is a lot of hoop-la about this study, which says that the wage gap happens immediately upon entry [...]

Who makes the best salesperson? A cheerleader.
The drug industry is so systematic about recruiting cheerleaders that the New York Times writer Stephanie Saul wrote a feature about it, spotlighting women like Onya: "On Sundays she works the sidelines for the Washington Redskins. But weekdays find her urging gynecologists to prescribe a treatment for vaginal yeast [...]

Thirty is a magic number for the new generation — a time when people want their career path and their family life in place. This is a difficult convergence to pull off, but more and more people are aiming for it.
Jessica Marshall Forbes summarizes these feelings as she describes getting married: "We always knew we wanted [...]

This month the Harvard Business Review has an article titled Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek (subscription required). This article presents all the research to show that the destruction of the family comes faster in situations where both parents work long hours, but the authors, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce, [...]

Men love it, women think it's a time sink, and business deals are made over a couple of rounds.  

Sexual harassment in American work life is pervasive — as much as 80 percent in some sectors. But most women don't stand a chance of winning a lawsuit. So having a plan to deal with the problem is a good idea for all women.
When it comes to harassment, Georgia Gatsiou, chef at Beard Papa, says: [...]

My mother always told me, "Dress for the job above yours. No one will give you a promotion until they can imagine you in the higher position." So when I worked at 31 Flavors in high school, I didn’t wear a baseball cap like the other scoopers. I wore a crinkly, white paper hat, with [...]