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Moms Going Back to Work: Challenges, Struggles and Triumphs

Posted by: Lisa Nichols | Mar 05,2008

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A new book, "Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families" edited by Leslie Morgan Steiner explores the challenges stay-at-home moms face when they try to re-enter the workforce. The book combines information from recruiters and headhunters to provide ideas for stay-at-home moms to succeed when they go back to work.

Best-Selling Book Explores Challenges of Working Moms

The “Mommy Wars” explores a number of challenges that working moms face. Getting determined to go back to work after having kids is a hurdle that women have to overcome. It’s important for working moms to appear decisive when going for job interviews or discussing the challenges of a new job. Women who appear confused, upset or concerned about how their families will feel about their return to work will be less likely to get the job they want.

Working Moms Struggle with Return to Workforce

Women who return to the workforce need to project self confidence, not desperation. Rejection will happen, but it’s not to be taken personally. It’s important for working mom to keep up their network, and to let friends, former coworkers and other contacts know about the job search. Asking for help from a friend or working with a professional coach and maintaining professional connections can help women return to the workplace from a position of strength, say the contributors to the “Mommy Wars.”

Family-Friendly Companies that Support Working Moms

Working Mother magazine’s 2007 list of 100 family-friendly companies that provide support to working moms include a number of big-name corporations. The companies offer family-friendly benefits that encourage women to continue working after having kids. Working Mother’s top ten family-friendly companies that support working moms for 2007 include:

Baptist Health South Florida
Booz Allen Hamilton
Ernst & Young
General Mills
IBM
KPMG
The McGraw-Hill Companies
PricewaterhouseCoopers
UBS
Wachovia

Distance learning online makes continuing education and re-entering the workforce easier for stay-at-home moms. ClassesUSA.com partners with hundreds of accredited schools to offer women a variety of classes and online degrees to choose from. Get more information about distance learning online at ClassesUSA.com.