Editor's blog

If you make money doing something wrong, you don’t usuallyget to keep it.  Or if you do a jobbadly, you don’t get a tip.  Thoserules don’t seem to apply to bankers.

Ambitious women in America should learn from Michelle Obama.  Anyone who aspires to holding a position of governmental power should use her mother’s free services for childcare.  Because hiring household help can easily sink you.

It’s not as compelling, as Dreams from My Father, but you may still want to read The Job Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment plan—for what it says about women. And anew way of thinking policy.

For years, advocates of work-life balance have suggestedshorter weeks. Women themselves hardly dare ask—for fear of losing their jobsor being placed on mommy-list.