Women At Work

Women make up 51 percent of the population, but according to a new study by Catalyst, 85 percent of companies in the Fortune 500 ranking have no women on their governing boards. That means 85 percent of companies, including Gap Inc, Fidelity, and Dick's Sporting Goods don't have women contributing to their ...

Will the Supreme Court's recent hearing decision on the biggest class-action employment discrimination case in the nation's history put Wal-Mart Inc. one step closer to paying out billions of dollars to millions of women? Yes and no, according to the legal experts weighing in on the issue. ...

In Iran, 20 percent of the women have jobs or are looking for them, reports William Yong in The New York Times. That ability to be self-supporting is turning the conservative Iranian society on its ear. For example, women are now pushing for divorce. One out of seven marriages ends in divorce and, in big ...

Growing a career up through the computer games business as a video-game designer has been 23 years of fun and hard work for me. Whenever people ask me what I do for a living, I cringe a bit before I respond. It's not that I don't love what I do, it's just that everyone on the planet imagines it to be glamorous, ...

My name is Michelle. I am a 43-year-old administrative and operations management professional with over 20 years of experience. I was laid off in March 2009, as director of operations for a real-estate services company, and since that time I have been on a challenging and seemingly unending job search; one that ...

Bankruptcy. It's an ugly word that most people won't even whisper, let alone declare. But New Jersey businesswoman Marilyn Kleinberg saw no other options. In declaring both personal and business bankruptcy, she lost her home, her inheritance, everything... except her integrity. "My parents instilled in me a ...

Imagine a room with two people giving presentations on a problem the company is trying to solve. Here's how a man and a woman might introduce their plan to the group: He: "I have two solutions to this problem. The first is..." She: "I know that all of us feel uncomfortable with this project, and don't trust ...

Few people will take a billionaire head on, but that's just what Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy did after her firing on this week's "The Apprentice." While Mahsa was cast as a liar in the edited version of the show, she took to YouTube in order to clear her name (see video below). On the show this week The lights of ...

Ever consider stripping down to make a buck? There's one job out there that involves nudity, but without the distressing (and often illegal) sexual element that comes along with being naked on the job. Here are two exhilarating stories of women who conquered their embarrassment and became nude artist's models. ...