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Wednesday's Woman: Resolutions For The New Year

Posted by Gayle Kesten 10:30 PM ET | Dec 31, 2008

I rarely break for lunch. I haven't cleaned out my e-mailbox. I continue to use an old-fashioned calendar to keep my schedule straight. And, yes, Dad, my nails are still short.

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Much To Admire About Wednesday's Women

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:06 AM ET | Dec 24, 2008

Working women share many of the same challenges: growing our businesses, supporting ourselves, supporting our families, parenting our children through their many stages of life, finding downtime ... the list goes on.

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Wednesday's Woman: Time To Refashion The Hourglass

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:45 AM ET | Dec 17, 2008

Working women who can pinch an inch, rejoice! A new study published in this month's Current Anthropology lets us off our mental hooks.

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Wednesday's Woman: Hard Times, Creative Measures

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:32 PM ET | Dec 10, 2008

When the going gets tough, resilient working women get going. They think out of the box. Meet four females who fit the bill.

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Wednesday's Woman: Identity Theft Assistance Center's Anne Wallace

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:54 PM ET | Dec 3, 2008

Imagine applying for credit and being told the only piece missing from your paperwork is a man's signature. Fortunately, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, enacted in 1974, changed that -- but not without the help of Anne Wallace, who today has turned her attention to helping identity-theft victims get back on their feet.

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Wednesday's Woman: Four Female Ex-Dell Execs Sue For Discrimination

Posted by Gayle Kesten 11:17 AM ET | Nov 26, 2008

A quartet of senior-level women who were among a significant layoff at Dell are singing anything but the computer maker's praises, instead filing a class-action lawsuit claiming gender and age discrimination.

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Wednesday's Woman: Shades Of Serendipity

Posted by Gayle Kesten 09:09 AM ET | Nov 19, 2008

Even with two books on the market and a third on the way, Stacey Kaye is reluctant to refer to herself as an author. She's an independent marketing professional, through and through. Someone who is passionate about pitching ideas and can't read a magazine article without 86 ideas popping into her head. Someone who keeps Googling, sending e-mail, and making phone calls until she gets to the right person. In other words, someone who has a natural affinity for networking.

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Wednesday's Woman: Career-Defining Moments

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:01 PM ET | Nov 12, 2008

Mere weeks before I graduated from college with an advertising degree, I was wandering around the campus bookstore when a paperback about careers in publishing caught my eye. Though still to this day prone to talk myself out of most any purchase, I went ahead and bought it anyway.

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Wednesday's Woman: A Roaring Election

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:44 PM ET | Nov 5, 2008

Whether we woke up today to the first African-American president or the first female vice president, the following would also have historical significance: Working women truly made their mark in Tuesday's presidential election.

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Wednesday's Woman: Dare You Ask For A Raise During A Recession?

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:16 PM ET | Oct 29, 2008

Happy to just have a job? We all are. But just because the economy has seen much better days doesn't mean you should talk yourself out of negotiating a salary boost should you feel you deserve one.

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Wednesday's Woman: Julie Watson Smith, The Conscious Character Coach

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:53 PM ET | Oct 22, 2008

Want to know the best way to balance work and family? Quite simply, drop the notion of work-life balance and, instead, get your two worlds into alignment.

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Wednesday's Woman: Soft Is The New Hard

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:28 PM ET | Oct 15, 2008

Have women, queens of the soft skill called communication, won the gender war? In a word, yes, according to a guy named Guy Garcia, whose book, The Decline of Men, came out this month.

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Wednesday's Woman: BlogHer Cofounder Jory Des Jardins

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:36 PM ET | Oct 8, 2008

Blogs came onto the Internet scene nearly a decade ago; nowadays, it seems like everyone and her brother has one. But make no mistake: Done right, blogs are a powerful business tool that can put you on the Google map and introduce you to an entire community of potential clients and partners who otherwise would have never heard of you.

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Wednesday's Woman: 2009 Working Mother Of The Year Awards

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:55 AM ET | Oct 1, 2008

Working Mother magazine wants to celebrate its upcoming big 3-0 by honoring 30 great moms who are leaders both at home and in the workplace.

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Wednesday's Woman: Chilly Jilly Founder Jill Boehler

Posted by Gayle Kesten 09:45 AM ET | Sep 24, 2008

We've all had ideas for inventions -- momentary ideas that flashed through our minds like a shooting star, then faded to black about 10 seconds later because we didn't know how to make them happen. About 2-1/2 years ago, Jill Boehler, a speech pathologist and mother of three grown children in Andover, Mass., had one of those brilliant moments.

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Wednesday's Woman: Juliet Carlson

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:07 PM ET | Sep 17, 2008

I'm not the type who begins a new book by peeking at its end. But for no reason whatsoever that's precisely what I did when I received my review copy of "How We Lead Matters: Reflections On a Life of Leadership."

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Wednesday's Woman: SBR's Own Gayle Kesten -- The Secrets To Her Success

Posted by Naomi Grossman 08:25 AM ET | Sep 10, 2008

Every working mother has a strategy, a way to achieve a work/life balance that allows for job satisfaction and quality mothering time. Often that strategy involves ways to work more efficiently, more productively, and more effectively. SmallBizResource editor Gayle Kesten is not only a provider of tech tips and tools to help readers develop those strategies but she is also one of those working mothers who incorporates much of what she shares on the site in her own workday.

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Wednesday's Woman: Sarah Palin -- The Ultimate Working Mother?

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:10 PM ET | Sep 3, 2008

While VP potential Sarah Palin could very well become the ultimate example of what working mothers can accomplish, I'd say the following no matter which party she represented: Given what's on her family plate, it's debatable whether even Wonder Woman would be up to the monumental demands of helping to run the country.

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Wednesday's Woman: She's So Shy -- Etiquette Consultant Jodi Smith On How to Make Small Talk (Part 2)

Posted by Gayle Kesten 08:00 AM ET | Aug 27, 2008

Gracefully ending a conversation can prove just as difficult as getting into one in the first place.

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Wednesday's Woman: She's So Shy -- Etiquette Consultant Jodi Smith On How to Make Small Talk (Part 1)

Posted by Gayle Kesten 01:33 PM ET | Aug 20, 2008

Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated.

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Wednesday's Woman: Words of Wisdom You Can Really Put to Work

Posted by Gayle Kesten 12:30 PM ET | Aug 13, 2008

I've written before how I approach advice-type articles with a huge dose of skepticism. Much of that has to do with someone I thought I knew in a former life turning out to be a big blowhard who spouted off his textbook knowledge as if he were an authority.

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Wednesday's Woman: Just Say No to Yes

Posted by Gayle Kesten 04:36 PM ET | Aug 6, 2008

I've faced plenty of challenges in my career. One that continues to dog me: how to say no -- and do so with a clear conscience.

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Wednesday's Woman: Push Your Senators for Fair Pay

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:12 PM ET | Jul 30, 2008

Last week I received an e-mail from advocacy group MomsRising.org, which took exception to a New York Times article that intimated men and women are equally suffering from the economic downturn.

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Wednesday's Woman: A $1 Million Business Plan

Posted by Gayle Kesten 03:11 PM ET | Jul 23, 2008

If you're looking for a role model in business, then do yourself a favor -- forget Oprah and Martha Stewart.

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Wednesday's Woman: Tips Before Putting Your Honey on the Payroll

Posted by Gayle Kesten 02:53 PM ET | Jul 9, 2008

Would I ever hire my husband to work for me? God, no. And I write that with love.

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