Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 2, 2007 7:13 AM

Taking Care of Loved Ones May Mean Giving Up Career
For 10 years, Laura Wanless and her mother, Carol, worked side by side running a home day care in Appleton. Known to the children as Grandma, Carol Maher, 69, was "like another hand," Wanless said, chaperoning field trips, stopping in to play and acting as backup baby sitter. Then Maher started suffering severe headaches and nausea. Doctors found a brain tumor, and ordered emergency surgery. She was diagnosed with metastasized breast cancer, a cancer that had spread from her breast to her brain. Doctors estimated she had one year to live. In a matter of weeks, Wanless became what she calls "a parent to her own parent" and was forced to close her day care. PostCrescent.com

Are American Career Women Envied?
Go forth and travel the world before you change it but don't assume that women in other countries want to be like Americans, was some of the advice offered to hundreds of young women Saturday at Emma Willard School. "I probably learned as much from the places and the people I met," as her various schools, said Katty Kay, the Oxford-educated news anchor for the BBC's World News newscasts shown across the U.S. and the world. Kay gave the keynote address at the "Women, Power, and Responsibility" symposium, which explored the relationship between power and responsibility in today's world. TimesUnion.com

Grounding an Aeronautics School
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sued a Tulsa aeronautics school for allegedly firing a veteran female instructor because of her gender. Spartan Aviation Industries, doing business as Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, unfairly disciplined J.C. Shine based on her gender and then terminated her within two months after she complained about the discriminatory discipline, the EEOC alleged in its lawsuit. Tulsa World

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