Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on October 18, 2007 7:10 AM

Mired in the Past
Silicon Valley boasts that the future is invented here, but a critical study released today suggests that tech companies are mired in the past when it comes to promoting women to top posts. Valley companies based in Santa Clara County ranked dead last in the state, elevating fewer women to executive ranks and corporate boards than any other county. Mercury News

Family Leave Grants
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday proposed giving $1 billion in grants to states that enact paid family leave laws and said that she would support requiring employers to provide workers seven days’ annual paid sick leave. Mrs. Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, also called for expanding the Federal Family and Medical Leave Act, which protects the jobs of workers who take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. The law covers businesses with more than 50 workers. Mrs. Clinton would lower that to 25, covering an additional 13 million people, her campaign said. New York Times

Travel Wide and Far to Get Ahead
Go west young woman, go west — and east, and north, and south too. That is the advice of Westonite Stacie Nevadomski Berdan in her new book, Get Ahead by Going Abroad: A Woman’s Guide to Fast-Track Career Success. In the book, Ms. Berdan, a successful marketing communications executive, recounts her personal experiences and those of other women who catapulted their careers by spending time in another country. The Weston Forum

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