by Beate Chelette | Dec 4, 2020 | Business, Equality, Single Parenting, Women In Business, Women's Issues
Even in what we now can call ‘normal times’, before the pandemic turned our world upside down and inside out, women often ran up against gender barriers when trying to be successful entrepreneurs. There is a full range of these and all of us have experienced some of...
by BalanceGirl | Mar 31, 2020 | Equality, Family & Friends, Growth Architecture, Single Parenting
What’s important about a father’s parental leave? What does it offer that is critical and valuable? I believe that maternity leave for men—which I like to describe as ‘parental leave’—is truly important especially when we look at equality from the other side. Equal...
by BalanceGirl | Feb 27, 2020 | Self Improvement, Single Parenting, Women and Success, Women's Choices, Women's Code, Women's Issues
There are over 9 million single moms in the US. Given this huge number, we SHOULD be doing all we can to provide ‘single mom support’. But sadly, they are often the social outcasts in society. Even more, men blame women for being single moms, which is unfair, hurtful...
by BalanceGirl | Jul 21, 2018 | Balanced Leadership, Career, Self Improvement, Single Parenting, Women and Leadership, Women and Success, Women In Business, Women's Choices, Women's Code, Women's Issues
The demands and challenges of working mothers are many. Daily, they are faced with scenarios that feel as though working mothers are being punished. So, what bothers me about working mothers? We’ll get to that shortly. First, here is a list of just a few of the...
by Beate Chelette | Sep 16, 2015 | Equality, Single Parenting, Women In Business, Women's Code, Work Life Balance
Take a deep breath. That is what I kept telling myself after my last post, which was titled “How To Avoid Saying The Wrong Thing… To Women.” I may as well have called it “How To Say The Wrong Thing To Men” because before I knew it, I was in the midst of a volatile...
by Beate Chelette | Mar 4, 2014 | Family & Friends, Single Parenting, Women's Choices, Work Life Balance
We’ve all heard the divorce rate in the US hovers around 50%, but did you know the number of single parent households has tripled since 1960? Statistics show that 25% of households in the US are spearheaded by single moms, and that number has been steadily increasing....
