Before turning the page on Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s all-too-hasty firing of Shirley Sherrod, let’s consider what leaders in the private sector can learn from the episode. Yes, Vilsack rushed to judgment. But why?

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White Executives Should Head to the ‘Hood

Now that I'm in my 40s, some of my friends who are married with children are starting to divorce. I've seen firsthand how hard it is for them at home and at work. One friend completely botched a work assignment because she was so emotionally spent.

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When Divorce Affects Your Work Life

I remember many years ago, looking for a job and feeling frustrated. It was either send out more resumes or take a day off and go to the beach with a friend

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The key to work life balance during a job search

Will daddy wars erupt in this decade the way the mommy wars did in the last one? Eight years ago, when I wrote a book examining why accomplished women have such a hard time integrating career and children, the data found that approximately 40 percent of professional women are childless at age 40.

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How to Prevent Daddy Wars in the Workplace

Are there times at work when you say to yourself, “Wow I wish I knew that years ago?” With so many graduations this month, I asked people in various professions what work/life and career advice they would offer a new graduate.

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What I Wish I Knew Earlier in My Career

Women who run businesses are working harder than ever to stay ahead of the curve. They are working so hard that more of them, at least in Florida, find that their career is interfering with their responsibilities at home, according to the Florida's Woman-Led Businesses 2010 study released today by the FIU Center for Leadership and The Commonwealth Institute South Florida .

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Women leaders say home interferes with work

Do you ever feel like you would rather pick up trash on the side of the highway that go into work and deal with the jerk sitting next to you? I have to answer yes to that one. Last week, I was invited to attend a workshop on how to deal with difficult personalities at work.

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How to resolve workplace conflict

WorkLife Law is delighted to announce that we’ve received a generous new grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to expand our work on issues of work/family conflict across class

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WorkLife Law receives grant from the Kellogg Foundation to study work-family conflict across class

For the newbie's who find themselves doing project or consulting work, the WSJ today had a great article on freelancers and their pursuit of payment. Some of the suggestions in the article can apply to any business owner who finds themselves becoming a de facto bill collector.

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Freelancers fight to be paid

Companies may be cutting back on work life benefits but you still can get some help if you turn to the private sector. Today, in my Miami Herald column, I wrote about some of the services out there to help you: Posted on Tue, Apr.

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Great convenience service to help with work life balance

Germany's Deutsche Telekom AG has made a daring move by introducing a quota for female managers, aiming to fill 30 percent of upper and middle management jobs with women by the end of 2015, compared with only 13 percent in 2008. The company has 15,000 manager positions worldwide. Is this a good thing

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Quota for female managers – is it a good thing?

Heated debates are going on all over the country on whether to ban text messaging and cell phone use while driving. I've really been thinking a lot about this topic after judging a high school contest and talking to a student who has formed an organization urging people to stop texting and talking in their cars ( STATIC ). I really don't think teens have the maturity to text or talk on their cell phones and drive the car

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Is texting, talking while driving crucial to work life balance?

A new report by WorkLife Law provides a detailed picture of the current state of FRD litigation, including a 400% increase in the number of cases filed and an average verdict of more than $500,000. The report also describes common fact patterns that lead to FRD claims, shows the number of FRD cases filed in each state, and provides numerous case examples.

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Family Responsibilities Discrimination Litigation Update 2010

Today the Center for WorkLife Law (WLL), in conjunction with the Center for American Progress (CAP), released a groundbreaking report on work-family conflicts across class. The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict: The Poor, the Professionals, and the Missing Middle is the first of its kind report to comprehensively document how work-family conflict affects poor and working class people, instead of focusing exclusively on professional women “opting out” of the paid workforce

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New report from WorkLife Law and CAP on work-family conflicts across class

At a time when many children find themselves nose-to-screen with their favorite television programs, it is refreshing to see more and more kids burying their nose in a simple book instead. That is, of course, unless you got that book from Little Write Brain .

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Customizable Books For Kids

        I just read a great blog post on WorkingMother.com  by a mompreneur who survived her first year in business. I found it inspiring.           As Toyi Ward (MaxiMom) points out, hitting this 1-year milestone can be challenging. Statistics show a failure rate of new businesses in the first year range from the sensationalized 90% to a more reasonable 26%.          Ward says, “The pressure to give up my flexible schedule and autonomy for the 80-hour work week was knocking at my door

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Survival of a mompreneur

A lot of words are being slung around as the Senate confirmation hearing on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court gets under way, but some of the most significant were first uttered nearly 400 years ago. Shakespeare’s comment, “What’s past is prologue,” is especially true with regard to the court’s first Latina candidate. One obvious allusion is to Sotomayor’s now-famous “wise Latina” remark, which resulted in Rush Limbaugh labeling her a racist.

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Sotomayor and the "Wise Latina" Vanguard

       What's taking women so long to wear black?       Ruth Bader Ginsberg has worn it well….will Judge Sonia Sotomayor  be the next to wear it?       As we begin the confirmation hearings that stand between Sotomayor and a seat near Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the high bench, it's sad to think that it took so long for a women to have this opportunity

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What’s taking women so long to wear black?

        It feels pretty amazing to be in control of my own destiny. I'm self employed and loving it.         I have lots of company.  A new Census report shows a big boost in the number of people who are self employed (loving it is optional!). People formed more than 1 million nonemployer businesses between 2006 and 2007, representing a growth rate of 4.5 percent

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Self employed and loving it, are you?

This post was co-authored by Ripa Rashid. Among the images of Iran’s anti-government demonstrations flooding the media, none has been as potent as that of Neda , the young woman the world watched bleed to death on the streets of Tehran after being shot, it is believed, by the pro-government militia. Her death was symbolic on two fronts: it put a human face to violent repression, and conjured up the increasingly powerful presence of women in this most Muslim of nations.

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Neda and the New Iranian Woman