Ilise*, a female attorney at a big New York law firm, is the envy of most of her female peers, at least those with children. Unlike most of the other lawyers at her firm, who have to juggle unpredictable hours with inflexible and costly childcare arrangements, Ilise has a built in child care system that doesn’t make her feel as though her two daughters, ages 18 months and 4 years, are being deprived of quality parental time. After Ilise came back to work from her second maternity leave, her husband, a writer, decided to stay home with the girls.
Ilise’s situation is unique, but hardly unusual among professional woman these days. In fact, stay at home husbands have been a hot topic in the blogosphere.
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WSTA 2008 Summer Magic
NewsWSTA Socials afford industry professionals the opportunity to socialize in a relaxed atmosphere.
Ticket Price Includes: 4-hour open bar, hot and cold hors d’oeuvres, buffet and music all at a spectacular venue.
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*After July 11th all tickets will be $195 plus shipping and handling charges.
*Ticket sales close July 16, 2008 4:00 PM EST.
Stay at Home Husband? One Lawyer’s Story
Spotlight on PeopleIlise*, a female attorney at a big New York law firm, is the envy of most of her female peers, at least those with children. Unlike most of the other lawyers at her firm, who have to juggle unpredictable hours with inflexible and costly childcare arrangements, Ilise has a built in child care system that doesn’t make her feel as though her two daughters, ages 18 months and 4 years, are being deprived of quality parental time. After Ilise came back to work from her second maternity leave, her husband, a writer, decided to stay home with the girls.
Ilise’s situation is unique, but hardly unusual among professional woman these days. In fact, stay at home husbands have been a hot topic in the blogosphere.
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Facilitating Social Intelligence: A Woman Thing?
NewsAn Interactive Workshop in Social Awareness and Social Facility.
This learning event will unveil your inner capacity to create humanwealth through creativity, empathy, generosity and curiosity.
How can we best produce a healthy and intelligent community… Are womenleading the way in facilitating social intelligence? Is it a genderneutral issue? (And does it matter…) The audience will have theopportunity to listen to practitionners’ short interventions andactively take part in experience-based discussions and challenges.
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How to Look Like a Workaholic in a 40-Hour Workweek
Expert AnswersContributed by Laura Stack of The Productivity Pro®, Inc.
In a perfect world, we would be judged solely on our results, regardless of what others thought about how or when we got our work done. The good news is that this type of “results only” mentality is catching on. Some companies and managers are beginning to realize that there are better ways to manage performance than by counting hours at the office. Organizations are responding to the changing needs of workers everywhere by offering arrangements such as flextime and telecommuting.
The bad news is that, like it or not, corporate mentality is what it is. The 40-hour week is not just an expectation; it’s the minimum, especially for salaried professionals. Self-proclaimed workaholics advertise their twelve-hour days like a badge of honor and wouldn’t be caught dead leaving the office before 6:30 PM. Read more
Ask-A-Recruiter: Ignore Phone Interview Skills At Your Peril
Ask A RecruiterContributed by Caroline Ceniza-Levine of SixFigureStart
When recruiters want to speak via phone, does this mean they are not really interested?
Phone interviews are not a sign of lack of interest. In fact, they are a key part of the job search process, and ignoring the importance of phone skills is a common job search mistake. As a recruiter, most of my general interviews are via phone. Some recruiters use a phone screen for every search and reserve live meetings for finalists only. Furthermore, a lot of recruiting process work is via telephone: either you or your potential employer is leaving a message to schedule an interview or to check status. Although the term “telephone tag” recalls a childhood game, do not take phone interactions lightly.
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100 Women in Hedge Funds Honors Sonia Gardner of Avenue Capital Group
Movers and Shakersby Margarita Shelley-Smith
While numerous publications and analysts address the question of women’s inability to successfully manage high risk investments and understand the nuances of portfolio management, Sonia Gardner is a clear example to the contrary.
On June 5th, 2008, 100 Women in Hedge Funds named Sonia Gardner of Avenue Capital Group as a recipient of this year’s Leadership Award. This award recognizes individuals whose professional dedication, innovation, passion and ethics set a standard of excellence for the industry. “We are so pleased to be honoring Sonia Gardner, whose combined achievements as a founder, partner and leader of a pioneering, pre-eminent alternative asset management firm are unique,” said the board director, Mimi Drake.
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Women Rule the Executive Suites at These Top 10 Corporations
Newsby Heather Cassell
The National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) recently released their list of corporations that are particularly good for executive-level women. Of these, the following 10 corporations from a variety of industries including banking and finance, personal care, technology, insurance, fashion and media stand out. In alphabetical order, these corporations are a cut above the rest when it comes to women’s leadership:
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Mentors: Kate Bishop, Director of Human Resources, Dell
Mentors and Sponsorsby Elizabeth Harrin
Kate Bishop has been supporting people in her role as Human Resources professional for years, working in the UK, Japan, Thailand and Canada. But it’s her most recent role as Director of HR at Dell that earned her this year’s BlackBerry Women and Technology Award for Best Mentor.
Kate left school at 16 because she didn’t know what she wanted to do. “I started work in a bank in the back office,” she says, “folding bits of paper and putting them in envelopes all day, but quickly realized that perhaps I could do more.” After going back to school to study secretarial skills, Kate found a role with a UK brewery just about the time that computers were starting to be used for word processing.
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The Nail That Sticks Out: Adventures of a Female “Gaijin” Attorney in Corporate Japan
Passionsby Samantha Anderson
As is true of many relationships, you don’t know someone—or someplace—until you live with it. It’s a little like finding a great house, then discovering that every time it rains, the place sinks two inches.
I loved living in Japan. Working in Japan was a different story. Just as most of the streets have no names, rendering it nearly impossible to find your way around without a map, I found myself with a second full time job navigating around the potholes and pitfalls of Japanese business culture.
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Fund (It) Forward
Women and PhilanthropyBy Alana Elsner
The concept is simple: Pay it forward. Whether you believe in cosmic karma, enjoy doing humanity good, or simply loved that Kevin Spacey movie, the idea of helping another person is ingrained in many of us. Rather than rely on that spare bit of change to make a difference, financially-savvy funds have risen to empower investors to change society. At the forefront of today’s socially conscious investing is the Women’s Funding Network (WFN), an organization composed of 128 philanthropies, seeking to transform the world through women.
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