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Should Women that code be “leaning in” or “leaning to one side”?
Lately it seems that women are making some inroads at the top end of business. Just this week we saw UK ITV News editor Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News. There are now 20 female CEOs running America’s largest companies. That paltry number (4%) is actually a record. The reason ......
Should Women that code be “leaning in” or “leaning to one side”?
Lately it seems that women are making some inroads at the top end of business. Just this week we saw UK ITV News editor Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News. There are now 20 female CEOs running America’s largest companies. That paltry number (4%) is actually a record. The reason ......
Yahoo-Tumblr $1.1bn deal - promise "not to screw it up"
Yahoo promised "not to screw it up" as it formally announced its acquisition of the Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn ahead of the US stock market opening on Monday.
"Tumblr is redefining creative expression online," the Yahoo chief executive, Marissa Mayer, said in a statement. "On many levels, ......
Stopping Sex Trafficking in the US
For most Americans the horrors of sex trafficking and exploitation conjure up thoughts of faraway countries like Bangkok or Cameroon. But young girls are bought and sold for their bodies right in our own backyard, from Los Angeles to New York.
American girls ages 16 to 19 are the prime victims of r......
Deborah Turness Named President of NBC News
After just over a week of rumours circulating circulating that ITV News editor Deborah Turness was on the verge of being named president of NBC News, Pat Fili-Krushel made it official that Turness will take the reins in August.
Turness becomes the first woman to run a network news organiz......
Local Community and Resources
She’s not just a worker, she’s a mother trying to avoid poverty
Getting single moms out of poverty won't happen unless groups working on their behalf realize that they are dealing with a family. It's not uncommon to find a woman visiting a Head Start program for her child on one side of town while a housing office is trying to move that same family across town. ......
Most On Time Airlines
If you're hoping to land on time, don't fly domestic.
That's the takeaway from a FlightStats-authored review of major international airlines, which reveals that foreign-flagged carriers generally have better on-time performance than their American counterparts.
Delta is the only U.S. carrier to cr......
4 Essential Legal Documents Every Woman Should Have
While we’re constantly hearing about the perils of lack of planning for retirement and future healthcare challenges it’s also important to take some time out to make sure that you have all your bases covered if you were seriously ill or hospitalized
No matter your age or income, you sho......
Women Are the Future – Certainly for Investment Advisers
For those who may not already have seen the writing on the wall - women are the primary financial decision-makers in most American households. A new survey by personal-finance site DailyWorth notes that 76% of women reported being their household's primary retirement planner too.
While this is not ......
De-clutter your desk draws – 10 essentials
If you ever felt like you “live at work!”, you may find that your desk draws can clutter up fast. Deborah Sweeney has some good recommendations to start the streamlining process by equipping your desk with these 10 essentials:
1) Chargers
From the phone to your iPod, the death of......
Parenting
Utah soccer referee punched by player dies
Youth sports offers kids an outlet for their skills and talents and are intended for friendly competitive play and exercise. However, some environments sustain an aggressively charged atmosphere that often leads to physical altercations. Disagreements that turn into sports-related violence on ......
First Woman to Receive Womb Transplant - May be Pregnant
In August 2011 specialists at Akdeniz University Hospital in Turkey transplanted a womb into 22 year old Derya Sert who was born without one. Now the hospital says that Sert, who became the first person to successfully receive the uterus of a dead donor, may be pregnant.
Doctors at the Turkish hosp......
New Jersey bans children from tanning beds
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed a bill into law on Monday banning children under 17 from using commercial tanning beds, a move stemming from the case of a local woman accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth.Under the new law, youth age 17 and older must have a parent......
Could we Actually Solve the Childcare Issue?
With many schools off for spring break and the long summer vacation on the way many parents are faced with the challenges of childcare options if they want or need to work. During World War II the Kaiser shipyards comprised seven major shipbuilding yards located on the U.S. west coast. While the com......
Let Us Teach Our Kids Kindness
This past Sunday a 12-year-old Philadelphia boy, Bailey O'Neill who was a victim of an attack by two classmates during recess in January, died after weeks in hospital. This is not the first incident of children bullying and beating up other kids around the country. It's clear that this b......
Finding a Job
Researching Employers
Do you want to ace that interview? You will need to come across as well informed and committed and that starts with doing your homework. In today’s world of abundant online information there are no excuses for showing up at a job interview and not knowing what the company actually ......
Handling the “Overqualified” issue
As you work to ensure that you are considered as the perfect candidate for the job, you often need to tweak your experience and skills to match the jobs requirements. But many experienced women looking to return to the workforce and still maintain a balance with family life can find that they easily......
The Immigration Debate – Is there a shortage of skilled-workers?
With the wrangling over immigration reform heating up in Congress, the tech industry is lobbying hard to raise the limit on H-1B visas, which allow non-U.S. citizens with advanced skills and degrees in "specialty occupations" to work in the country for up to six years.
Demand for foreign workers is......
Applying the FAB Factor to your Resume
Your resume is a key part of any job application, it’s the first visibility that a hiring manager will get of you and can be the difference between you being invited in for an interview or not. The importance of having a strong well worded resume cannot be overstated.
It’s important to ......
Following up after a Job interview
There are many negative connotations when we reference marriage and work, but if you’re going to avoid feeling like you're married to your job down the line you better get the courtship right. When it comes to following up after a Job interview you need to think of all the does and don’t......
Stay Fit and Healthy
The US-EU trade deal could improve what you eat for dinner
As President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron stood smiling for the cameras at a press conference on free trade this week, the question remains - Does the average American care less whether the US has a good trade deal with Europe, or whether Europeans buy our products or we buy theirs. ......
Angelina Jolie's preventive double mastectomy choice
Angelina Jolie revealed in a moving op-ed in the New York Times, that she recently underwent a double mastectomy after testing positive for the gene that predisposes her to breast and ovarian cancer.
"My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," writes the 37-year-old Oscar winner a......
Over 40? 8 things women should change in their diet
Yes women do tend to put on a pound a year in their 40s and 50s, but it’s more likely due to a drop in activity rather than hormones. Aging does not have to equal weight gain. The sad truth though is that hormonal changes can shift your body composition, so any pounds you do gain tend to land ......
The Amazing Banana
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.
Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.
Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy f......
Shift the Weight
Embarking on any weight-loss program is never easy. The first step is to congratulate yourself for taking the responsible decision to lose those unnecessary, unhealthy extra pounds. It’s hard changing habits that have been a lifetime in the making but the reward of having your clothes feel a l......
Around Home
Watermelon-Lavender Martini
This martini is lighter on booze than the Mad Men variety, but you won't miss it—or the extra 215 calories per glass!
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon culinary lavender buds
4 cups cubed fresh watermelon
4 oz vodka or ginIce cubes
4 sprigs lavender or 4 small p......
Chicken Stir-fry With Peanut Sauce Over Rice
Here's a quick easy meal for two that will help you "get your veg on". If you need to eat more filling up with stir fry vegetables is a healthy way to fill that void.
INGREDIENTS
Stir-fry
Vegetable-oil cooking spray
6 oz boneless, skinless chicken breast, sliced
1 teaspoon sesam......
Avoiding Pizza Mistakes
Pizza is one of the easiest dishes you can make at home and a fun activity to get your kids started in the kitchen. The simplest option is buying ready prepared dough otherwise; dissolve 3/4oz (21g) dried yeast with 1oz honey or sugar in 1 pint tepid water. Make a pile of 1lb semolina flour, 1lb str......
Lemon Shrimp Basil Pasta
Quick, easy and healthy. Combing the shrimp with the pasta will save a few extra minutes of cooking time
Ingredients
3 quarts water 8 ounces uncooked spaghetti
1 pound peeled and deveined large shrimp
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
3 tablespoons drained capers
2 tablespoons ext......
Strawberry-Avocado Salsa
It's spring - time for something fresh and tasty, so how about mixing it up with some healthy flavors just right for the season. You can't beat the mix of strawberries and Avocado.
Ingredients
1 cup finely chopped strawberries
1/4 cup finely chopped peeled
2 tablespoo......
What's new - Fashion & Trends
Will Keystone XL mean Game Over for Climate?
The lobbying for and against tar sands has intensified on both sides of the Atlantic as the EU moves forward on its proposals, which Canada fears could set a global precedent, and Barack Obama considers approving the Keystone XL pipeline to transport tar sands oil from Canada to the US gulf coast re......
“We All Have More Than We Need.”
Oral Lee Brown, has sent hundreds of poor kids to college over the years. Here are five life-lessons she shares.
Oral Lee Brown kept her promise to the children of Oakland
Oral Lee Brown knows exactly what it means to pay it forward. Having grown up in the Mississippi Delta, in a ......
Men Are More Likely Than Women to Use Mobile Shopping Technology
When it comes to mobile shopping, the gender gap is alive and well. A new DDB Life Style Study looked at mobile shopping patterns by gender and found that men are much more inclined than women to use mobile phones to shop or use QR codes and apps to find the best deals. One assumption is that&n......
Twitter Signs Lucrative Ad Deal
The social media companyTwitter continues its move into the advertising world, signing a deal Monday with one of the largest advertising agencies in the world, the Starcom MediaVest Group, part of Publicis Groupe.
At the start of the "upfront season", the annual series of meetings where networks i......
British Vogue sets example for fashion industry
British Vogue and Equity have co-signed a 10 point code of conduct for models. In 2009, Equity opened its doors to models working in Britain's fashion industry and offered them union representation. Four years later, Equity and British Vogue have reached a landmark agreement by signing a 10-po......
Education
Pharmacist - A six-figure job with gender equality
Doctors are still mostly men, and nurses are almost all women. But pharmacists are a fast-growing profession offering a six-figure salary -- and the pay is nearly equal for men and women.
According to Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz in a paper on the subject they published in ......
45 Meter Asteroid to Make Closest Ever Pass to Earth on Feb 15
This week, Friday (Feb. 15), our planet is due for a record setting space encounter, when a space rock roughly half a football field wide skirts very close by Earth at break neck speed and well inside the plethora of hugely expensive communications and weather satellites that ring around us in geosy......
Sexist Toys or a Sign of Changing Times?
Lego’s introduction of its Friends line in January, with building set themes such as a beauty shop and a fashion studio aimed at young girls, has been followed by Mattel introducing a Barbie construction set that underscores a shift in the marketplace.
Anne Marie Kehoe, vice president of toys......
12 great free online courses
The cost of college tuition and fees has skyrocketed at nearly twice the rate of healthcare in the United States. Going to college today will cost a student 559% more than it did in 1985, on average.
Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng created Coursera, which brings great classes from t......
Back to School Preparation
Wow how time flies. Don’t tell your kids, but it’s time to start getting ready for the school year. You may not be ready to shift your focus either, but it’s better to plan ahead than to have to cram everything into the last week or two before school starts. So start doing a little......
Entrepreneurship
Crowdfunding - A Game Changer for Women Entrepreneurs
According to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies across the U.S. Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing and the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same industry.
People tend t......
Just one in five of New York City’s startups founded by women
According to a report called “Start-Up City: Growing the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for All,” by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York’s startup activity is hot — but many of the city’s residents are being left out in the cold. The report finds that blacks......
Code First Girls - aims to get more female entrepreneurs
Women are conspicuously absent from tech entrepreneurship. Yet recent studies suggest that tech is exactly where talented, ambitious women should be. Code First: Girls is the coding education arm of Entrepreneur First in the UK, which launched earlier this week of is an attempt to r......
Africa’s Solar Sisters Changing Lives One Light at a Time
Solar Sister is one of nine projects backed by the United Nations’ Momentum for Change initiative that will be featured at this year’s UN climate negotiations in Doha. Other projects include the introduction of electric vehicles in Sri Lanka, energy-efficient brick production in Peru, an......
Flexible Work Makes Good Business Sense
Many employers know that it makes good business sense to provide flexible working opportunities for their staff. These employers know flexible working arrangements enable them to retain skilled staff and reduce recruitment costs, to raise staff morale, decrease absenteeism and react to changing mark......
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What we offer
GajGal is an expanding community of mothers helping mothers. Our motto “Get a Job | Get a Life” is based on the belief that for mothers wanting to get back into the workforce, finding a job with “the right level” of flexibility, empowers working mothers to live life on their own terms and better control their own destiny.
GajGal aims to address this “new reality” through four core components:
- 1. Job Search and Matching tools to streamline finding the perfect fit for flexible work arrangements.
- 2. Access to Benefits that in the traditional work environment have been provided by full time employers. GajGal helps to provide a critical mass of members to ensure access to a range of benefits options that we are continually working to expand and improve on.
- 3. Working Mother Community to provide access to news, blogs and articles of interest and importance to working mothers and a social networking community that working mothers can interact with and draw on for support.
- 4. The Entrepreneur Zone is for mothers aiming to start their own business and expand on the concepts of working mothers helping working mothers succeed.
Success stories
Shayne Duke
“Using your Benefits link made it easy to select from a wide range of health insurance offerings and narrow down the various plans available that best fit my needs. Being able to make a side by side comparison of the details further helped me make an informed decision on a plan with great rates. The application is swift and uncomplicated”
Amy Rogers
“ WOW this is a fantastic idea aimed at a true need. I have had a hard time preparing to go back to work after staying home with my two kids for the past 4 years. I am so excited to start adding my requirements and get started on the search. The Latest News and Benefits are an excellent idea. I would come here to read this even if I wasn't looking for a job right now”
