NextAvenue.Org: 5 Ways Women Can Increase Their Pay
A few surveys focusing on how much women earn came out last week, timed to Equal Pay Day, and the news wasn’t great. My takeaway: Women need to be aggressive…
U.S. News & World Report: Why Older Americans Are Happier at Work
“There is a group of people who will continue working because they need the income, and they want to save up before dipping into Social Security and savings. And because…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Ten Things to Do When You Lose Your Job
How does it feel to be nearly 60 and back in the job market after an unexpected layoff? You went down with an entire department’s implosion. You feel angry in…
NextAvenue.Org: Should Single Women Buy or Rent A Home
My friend Martha, 53, recently bought a 2,000-square-foot farmhouse that’s over 100 years old and nestled on five acres about 30 miles from Washington, D.C. She had to jump through…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Older Interns? Getting Your Irish Up
In Tina Fey’s new movie, The Intern, she plays the founder of an e-business with a fashion focus, who takes on a 70-something intern to much eye-rolling angst. Are internships…
NextAvenue.Org: How Are Women Really Doing on The Job Front
There’s nothing quite like a presidential campaign to get women some attention. Female voters are, after all, the majority of the electorate Little wonder then that Democratic strategists see women…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Crowd-funding: The Pebble and NBC’s The Voice Rock Duo,The Shields Brothers
As I was reading the Smithsonian.com’s Innovations blog about smart watches, I stopped cold when I came to this passage about the the newest, new, new thing, the Pebble. “Even…
NextAvenue.Org: When It Comes to Money, the Deck Is Stacked Against Women
This is truly stunning. I know several married, professional women who are my age — in their early 50s — and don’t have a bank account, credit card or utility…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Who Says We’re Retiring Later?
It’s been a busy spring for surveys about boomers and retiring. Here’s the gist of it. Employers say they really value older workers…really they do. Workers say they plan to…
Forbes.Com/Second Verse: Career Changing Lessons from Jimmy Iovine
Jimmy Iovine knows how to redeploy. The 59-year-old legendary engineer and record producer’s story is remarkable on many levels, but for you….a boomer eyeing a second career, there’s an important…
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