Workplace Buzz: Today's Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 16, 2007 7:16 AM

Self-Employed Women Not Taken Seriously
Women in business, one of the fastest growing segments of the self-employed, and yet we know very little about them. Half of America's workers are women. More and more women are entering the workplace and more and more women are entering at the business and professional level than ever before. American Chronicle

Too Tough to Pull Off?
The long march of American mothers into the workplace has ground to a halt. And the reason will come as no surprise to the millions of women now trying to balance kids and a job: It's just getting too tough to pull off. The numbers are complicated by the swings of the U.S. economy. But the trend is clear: The labor force participation of women with children, which peaked in 1997 after rising steadily for generations, has stayed flat or even declined in the last decade. Chicago Tribune

Encouraging Words for Women
Her message was unmistakable: Women need to care for themselves, especially if they are also caring for others. Delivering that message in spirited remarks yesterday at the Burlington County College Enterprise Center was Mariska Hargitay, the actress who stars in NBC's “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.” The occasion was the third annual Virtua Health Women's Health Symposium, which attracted more than 500 women from the region who gathered for a day of sessions on everything from metabolism and knee replacements to loss of sex drive and spider veins. Phillyburbs.com

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