Confessions of a Working Mom

What is Your Purpose? I have actually had several chats with friends recently about this topic and I was reminded of my dissertation that I wrote that focused on why women were not excelling into senior leadership positions as fast as their male counterparts. I have to say I thought for sure when I did this study I would find what I thought was the case that the "Good Old Man's Club" was the reason women were not getting their due justice. But what I found was nothing close to that. Sure men had a little part of that but what I really found was that women were not moving into these leadership positions because they had families, children and were not sure if they could take on the position and balance it all. So very often, women turn down the big jobs until their kids get older. In fact, later in life, I did the exact same thing with my kids. I looked at big jobs and would think to myself, how much time do I have to be away from my family, so I would look at som

Work-Life Balance Work-life balance might as well be a four-letter word in the world of women. We all say have balance, but when you are fighting your way up the chain to make it as a woman, balance seems to be the last thing on your mind. Why? Well us women have babies, and those babies take 9 months to grow in our tummy and then usually 8 weeks before we can go back to work. So we have a bit of disadvantage when it comes to working our way to the top without interruptions. When I got my first big chance to take over a big leadership role, I took a look at the organization and saw my predecessor left it in disarray. I had just had my daughter and was trying to manage this crazy schedule to keep everyone happy. I spent at least 60 hours a week at my job pulling this org back into shape. I would take her to preschool, then go pick her up around lunch, then wait for my hubby to get home then go back to work till 10 at night. I had so much fixing to do and so much to prove,