Leading The Way--The Working Mother

Women these days are trying to balance raising their children, and also hold onto their job, and prove themselves in corporations.

Companies should stand behind mothers and promote women into leadership roles. Continually seek ways to help women achieve professional success, while maintaining a manageable work-life balance.

Offering progressive parental leave and part-time policies, and having outstanding Women's Leadership Forum's will support women in all aspects of their careers.

Women shouldn't have to sacrifce family life for their job. It should be a priority of the companies to have intriguing policies that could benefit any industry. Women shouldn't feel caution in an interview when indicating that she may want to to have kids someday.

Increased communication will help associates with work/life balance. Company's can give employees access to online work/family discussion groups (one general groupa dn one women-only) to share tips on everything from pediatric dentists to breastfeeding.

The company can also supply the femail with a lap top to have the capability to work from home so many days out of the week. There is also job-sharing, where two employees will share the tasks of one job, and they both will work part-time.

Women face so many challenges in this male-dominated industry. Give women the tools that they will need--skills for marketing, devloping business and being in goveranance roles. Provide an environment where they can succeed, and make sure that the compensation systems are fair.

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