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Why is the glass ceiling still alive and well?

BY Ray Williams
Relevancy Score: 28

Call it a glass ceiling, glass wall or a glass floor – there is still a barrier blocking senior women leaders in organizations. High-powered executive and professional women are increasingly opting out of, being bypassed, or otherwise disappearing from the highly professional workforce. While this exists, true diversity in organizations will not happen.READ»

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Using CSR to Motivate Gen Y and Boomer Employees

BY Alice Korngold
Relevancy Score: 60

Boomers and Gen Y, the largest cohorts in the workplace, both want to “contribute to society through their labor,” according to a new article in Harvard Business Review by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Laura Sherbin, and Karen Sumberg, of ...READ»

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Extreme Jobs (and the people who love them)

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 61

Eighty-hour weeks. Relentless travel. Unpredictable schedules. High risk, high stress. Your worst nightmare, maybe -- but a dream for a group of elite workers.READ»

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Hooked on Work: the Allure of Extreme Jobs

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100

The setting Monday night for the unveiling of the Center for Work-Life Policy’s latest research, titled, “Extreme Jobs: The Dangerous Allure of the 70-Hour Workweek,” couldn’t have been more appropriate: the very epicenter of ...READ»

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Hazardous Road Ahead: the 'Scenic' Career Route

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100

Can women who opt out of the workforce ever get back in? That's the great unanswered question lurking behind many of the past year's stories about women ditching their corporate jobs and heading home. Until now, there had been no ...READ»