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Don't worry Miss Utah - We have the Wage Gap Data
By now you have probably see the viral video of Miss Utah's brain freeze in response to the question "A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?"during the Miss......
Ready for Women Special Forces!
If division-specific plans go through, women will have a chance to join the elite ranks formerly closed to them: those of the Navy SEALs, Marines, and Army Rangers. This planning comes on the heels of fierce debate about sexual assault in the military—two issues which may be more closely linke......
Breast Cancer - Supreme Court rules genes can’t be patented
Myriad Genetics just lost its two most valuable patents: BRCA1 and BRCA2, genes whose mutations are known to cause breast cancer. The pair were at the center of the Supreme Court's contentious case on whether or not genes can be patented.
Due to their legal claim over the two genes, Myriad wa......
'Woman in red' becomes symbol of Turkey protests
What began in late May as part of efforts to stop the cutting down of trees at the popular Gezi Park, to build a mall in the last green space in the city center of Istanbul Turkey, has rapidly morphed into a large scale protest about the erosion of rights and heavy handed government brutality.
Demo......
Prayers For Nelson Mandela
News reports that Nelson Mandela has been readmitted to the hospital over the weekend have sparked prayers across South Africa and throughout the world. According to a government statement; South African ex-President Nelson Mandela remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
A......
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
Google working to screen out child porn
Google has announced major plans to make a new effort to eradicate child porn on the Internet. The tech giant's first efforts against child porn came in 2006, when it joined an international coalition focused on ending the problem. Now, Google says it's developed technology which will help automatic......
Teen Birth Rates Drop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC) tracks the number of births to women aged 15–19 per 1,000 women in that age bracket as the teen birth rate. The CDC announced an overall improvement in teen births: a record low of 31 births per 1,000 teens ages 15 to 19. That compares w......
Birth Control on the High School Curriculum
Many states continue to emphasize abstinence over contraception, sometimes presenting abstinence as the only option. But on May 22nd, in a departure from current policy, in which abstinence is the only required curriculum for schools with sex ed classes. The Illinois Senate approved a measure requir......
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......
Finding a Job
Going back to work checklist
Are you stressing about your return to work and how you will manage being a parent and still coping at work?
Here are a few quick items to get squared away on your checklist:
Childcare is the number one issue to get squared away. If you stepped out of the work environment to have kids and are now ......
Flex -It's time to rethink our attitude to work
Flexible work in the 21st Century is about shifting from an 'hours worked' culture to a results based work model. When Yahoo's Marissa Mayer banned home working, was she admitting she didn't know how to measure productivity?
Getting ahead in the dog eat dog corporate world is seldom conducive to fr......
Managing your work-from-home Employment
According to the Telework Research Network half of the U.S. workforce has jobs that are compatible with at least part-time telecommuting, and nearly eight in 10 employees would like to work from home. But if being out of sight also means being out of mind, working from home can be a career challenge......
Explaining Your Meandering Career Path to a Hiring Manager
Before you stress out too much about the fact that your career path seems disjointed and you avoid applying for a great opportunity because you don’t have the perfect straight career chronology understand that you are not alone. There are very few people out there who have a pristine, straight......
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 ......
Stay Fit and Healthy
Does the Pill Make Women Less Competitive About Their Mate?
While the Pill remains a favorite form of birth control, a new study out of the Netherlands suggests that being on oral contraceptives could affect your choice of mate -- as well as your ongoing feelings about him if the relationship continues long term.
When birth control pills first hit the marke......
Global Pollution Affects Women the Most
Pollution harms everyone, but in the developing world, where environmental protections are more lax, toxic chemicals present real danger. This particularly harms women, as they are “especially sensitive” to pollutants, according to health experts. They’re more likely to devel......
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 ......
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Sea Bass With Citrus-Olive-Caper Sauce
Sea Bass is a great tasting fleshy fish which will absorb the flavor injection of this Citrus-Olive-Caper Sauce. Remember to keep the feast eco-friendly by buying Mid-Atlantic sea bass and not its overfished southern Atlantic cousin.
Serves 8
INGREDIENTS
8 sea bass fillets (a......
Vegan Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Bites
Looking for an easy Vegan Breakfast recipe? Or Just a healthy option? These Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Bites are packed with healthy ingredients.
Makes 24 servings
Ingredients
2 ripe bananas
1/3 cup almond butter
1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 tbsp unsweetened soymilk
2......
Vegetable Quesadillas With Fresh Salsa
You don't have to be a vegetarian to enjoy these healthy Quesadillas. They’re a great entertainment option or a healthy dinner for the family.
Serves 6
INGREDIENTS
4 medium plum tomatoes, diced
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
1 teaspoon ......
Warm Pasta Salad with Shrimp
Everyone should have a good pasta salad recipe and we all know that shrimp pasta is the true "exotic" staple, so why not combine them for your basic go to recipe.
Ingredients
3 cups uncooked farfalle (bow tie pasta)
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon ......
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......
What's new - Fashion & Trends
Nissan Boss - Train more women engineers to design cars women actually want to drive
Speaking at the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders’ annual motor industry conference in London, Dr Andy Palmer, executive vice-president of Nissan, said research showed half of all women are unhappy with their cars and three-quarters feel ‘misunderstood’. Dr Palmer said tha......
Administration OKs Morning-After Pill Sales With No Age Limit
The Obama administration will allow minors to obtain the morning-after pill dropping its appeal of a judge's order requiring it to be sold over the counter. The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services eventually agreed to make the single-pill version of the drug ......
Texas Group Gives Away Guns to Empower Women
A Texas non profit group, The Armed Citizen Project wants to stop violence against women–by giving away free guns. While the national debate over gun control rages on, the ACP has begun training and arming single women and single moms with pump action shotguns.
On its web......
How You Can Help Oklahoma Tornado Victims
The past few weeks have seen massive tornados touched down acros Oklahoma, wrecking havoc, destroying countless homes, and killing at least 24 people — nine of them children. As a preventative measure, the mayor of one particularly ravaged town, Moore, Okla., declared this morning that an......
10 Brands that will disappear this year
Each year, 24/7 Wall St. identifies 10 important brands sold in America that it predicts will disappear within a year's time. This year's list reflects the brutally competitive nature of certain industries.Among those potentially headed into obscurity are two magazines—Martha Stewart Living an......
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”
