Women on Business

JUNE 30, 2011

Recently I blogged about research indicating that women executives are more than twice as likely to leave their jobs as men. As reported in U.S. News , the researchers determined that 7.2% of women executives in the survey left their jobs, compared to 3.8% of men. This consisted of both voluntary and involuntary. departures. Read the entire article here.

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Women on Business

JULY 1, 2011

Guest post by Traci L. Dillard-Bell (learn more about Traci at the end of this post). Building a home business can be physically, emotionally, and especially financially exhausting, but there are ways maintain a steady stream of income by taking on a part-time home job early on while creating your business. Having a side income can reduce some of the stress when trying to make ends meet while you are getting your home business off the ground.

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Women on Business

JUNE 26, 2011

Guest post by Maranda Gibson (learn more about Maranda at the end of this post). I was thinking the other day about how I’m addicted to multitasking. I was hanging out with a friend, just chatting, and suddenly I realized that I had checked my email about five times in a 20 minute span. Why was I doing that? We use email to communicate but when you have conversation happening right in front of you why would you continue to try to find it somewhere else?

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Women on Business

JUNE 28, 2011

I know rebels when I meet them. This is a vital pattern in “ Don’t Bring It to Work ”. They love to ask “Why not” rather than just “Why”. Even better are those who can flip rebel to its positive opposite behavior, that of being a community builder. Meet Carla Calizaire, Regional Business Director at Nova Nordisk. Carla has an aura, a presence that immediately makes people gravitate toward her.

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Women on Business

JULY 1, 2011

What do you get when you mix five thousand women and counting; two hundred national chapters and counting; and energy that doesn’t quit? You get a powerful organization that has fun while doing good. Meet Mary Jo Wallo, a woman for these times. She runs an investment firm in San Diego, so who could be more perfect to count the growth and increases as her dream is coming true.

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Women on Business

JUNE 29, 2011

Guest post by Susie Collins (learn more about Susie at the end of this post). The tension and stress have been there for, it seems, all time. Historically, as more and more women entered the paid workforce, more and more women felt the tug and pull. It continues today. There are a growing number of career opportunities for women these days. While discrimination has certainly not disappeared, there are more women holding higher-paying and higher authority jobs than in the past.

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Women on Business

JUNE 27, 2011

For the second year in a row, WomenOnBusiness.com has been named to the list of the top 100 websites for women in 2011 by Forbes. Meghan Casserly and Jenna Goudreau of Forbes.com spent a year researching and developing the 2011 list of the top websites for women and offer the following insights into the criteria that went into selecting the 100 sites that made the list this year: “Informative and compelling content and user interface, engaged communities and, of course, a female focus that

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