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...

 
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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

GajGal Testimonial

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”

GajGal Testimonial

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”