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Krista Means opened a children's-clothing boutique because she couldn't find a place to buy a cute baby gift in West Seattle. Carol Schiller started Baby Chaleco because she couldn't find a bib that would keep her baby boy dry. Jackie Friedman Mighdoll created Sponge School because she wanted to expose her infant son to foreign languages. And Kat Stremlau opened Tot Spot Cafe in Woodinville because she had no fun place to take her baby during the winter.
Vossler took what she called a significant pay cut for her job as an in-house counsel. But she also had additional day-care expenses for her second child, hoisting the bill from $16,000 to about $30,000 a year.
Christiaan Johnson-Green didn't rush back to work after his son, Saul, was born six years ago. Instead, he called his Manhattan law firm as soon as his wife went into labor and announced that he was starting his paternity leave, effective immediately.
When Dena Fantle needs to help in her son's classroom, she doesn't have to worry about checking in with her boss or fighting traffic to get to the school. Fantle just leaves. Six years ago, she left the corporate world and started a business as a corporate-project manager and space planner so that she could work around her son's and daughter's class schedules and after-school activities.
Writers and marketers have discovered that if you slap together the words "women" and "work," you've got a pretty good target market. Every day seems to bring a new book. We've pulled together a roundup of some of the latest, addressing women's varied career needs.
Dust off your résumé right now. Because after you read this story, you're going to want a new job.
Want to leave the cubicle life behind, but not really sure how to do it? Michelle Goodman, former "wage slave" turned successful Seattle-based...
My last day at work coincided with my husband's company party, where two very fit and hip stay-at-home moms talked about their recent marathons.
A bill to give workers up to five weeks of paid family leave — which would be one of the most generous benefits in the nation — was approved on March 5 by the Senate budget committee.
Sit down with your partner and kids to lay out the benefits of a working mom, as well as the need for new responsibilities. Ask kids for input and suggestions. Set boundaries, such as, "I do wash this day. If it's not in the laundry pile, you're on your own."
After eight years as a stay-at-home mom, Catherine Springman jumped back into the paid workforce — but not without a lot of planning, help and challenges
These days, it's rare to find an article on motherhood and work that doesn't pit the stay-at-home mom against the working mom, or claim that one or the other is in better physical shape or a better breast-feeder or deserves a higher salary.
David G. Bradley, the owner of the Atlantic Monthly, recently named James Bennet, 39, to be the new editor of the august magazine. Bradley said he chose Bennet because he had "lived life near the headlines" in his job as a reporter, had excelled at long-form narrative and had a "selfless nature."
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