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One Mother, Preparing for Take-Off
My first workplace column, in 1998, was about how single people got stuck at the office more often than those with kids and how they could defend their time. Now, my final column before I go on maternity leave for six months is about how parents decide whether to work and how they handle it after a child is born.
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

Adapting to Adoptions
When Sheri Moreau adopted her first daughter from China in March 2004, she was able to cobble together eight weeks of paid and unpaid leave to travel to get her daughter and bond with her.
Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT
Office Awareness Can Head Off Abuse at Home
Melissa began to take sick days from her job at State Farm several years ago because of her abusive husband. There were "a lot of late nights where I had gotten beat up and didn't want to go in front of everybody at work," she said. "I tried to leave a couple times at the beginning, but I had no family around here and not many friends. I didn't have resources, so I felt trapped."
Sun, 06 May 2007 00:00:00 EDT
Her Pay Gap Begins Right After Graduation
For years, women have outnumbered men on college campuses. Overall, they get better grades than men. And yet, just months after they toss their mortarboards into the air at college graduation, men start to pull ahead of women in pay.
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 EDT
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