This summer I read a book that made me think a lot about how I decide to live my life, and shed a new light on my understanding of the 1001 difficulties that we encounter to bring to fruition the activities of JUMP … the fear that some men experience in the face of the rising power of women, and the difficulty women have to take responsibility for this change. However, JUMP’s objective is not to force women to grab power over men, but rather to help both women and men to make life choices in ways that really suit their personality without being limited by their gender conditions and by expressing their full potential.
Here’s what I read in Sophie Cadalen’s book ‘Les femmes de pouvoir – Des hommes comme les autres?’: "Women are intentionally and symbolically claiming the powers to which they are entitled, but all the while they don’t feel they have the right to do so despite their inner desires, conditioned as they are by a – purely imaginary – temperature that deflects them from these ambitions. A number of women live out this duality as part of their daily lives, feeling guilty whatever they do. They are against the discrimination that victimises them at the workplace, but they have no confidence in being capable of fulfilling a position of power which might overlap with their role as mother. There is no solution to this conflict. It is the constant tug-of-war between the head and the heart, between reason and emotion that knocks our consciences to the ground, even when we are at our most watchful."
In order to have complete freedom to feel totally ourselves and to enjoy this new status, Sophie Cadalen invites us to set aside every feeling of guilt that attaches to our roles as mother, wife, daughter, best friend, … and to come to terms with our wish to blossom according to our own rules and our own talents. The stimulation of these challenges, the joy of winning … these pleasures should be capable of eliminating our need for recognition and it should be the sole motor of our success. To achieve that we absolutely need to be more gentle on ourselves and also to feel more tolerant and kind towards other women. We will be freer to be completely ourselves when we all stop judging one another! Not a bad resolution for starting the new term!
Interview with Sophie Cadalen
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Heren, wij vragen u om voor één keertje uw ego opzij te willen zetten en ons meisjes te vertrouwen! Dat is in een notendop wat Elisabeth Cogswell Baskin stelt in haar werk: ‘How to Run Your Business Like a Girl’.

Volgens haar bestaat er eigenlijk geen enkele redden waarom je de zaken niet “als een meisje” zou aanpakken. Hieronder presenteren we u de vier sterke punten van de meisjes die u, heren, moet ontwikkelen.

Au moment du rush de la rentrée, il peut être utile de lire "Ces filles sympas qui sabotent leur carrière, les 101 pièges à éviter", de Lois Frankel, oratrice au dernier Forum JUMP.
Dans "Ces filles sympas qui sabotent leur carrière, les 101 pièges à éviter", l'auteur, montre comment les bonnes intentions des femmes se retournent souvent contre elles.

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Droom je ervan om zelfstandig te worden maar wil je eerst weten waar je aan toe bent? Wat zijn de voor- en nadelen, welke formaliteiten moet je vervullen, wat is de meest geschikte ondernemingsvorm?

source : http://www.continentalnews.fr par Angela Corrigan
Photo : Grossesse (Continental News)
En France grâce à Kalthoum Sarraï, la 'Super Nanny' qui aide les parents à éduquer leurs enfants sur M 6 (France) et RTL-TVI (Belgique), va à nouveau connaître les joies de la maternité à 45 ans.

Kalthoum Sarrai, alias Cathy, est née le 25 septembre 1962 à Tunis (Tunisie). Cette ancienne auxiliaire de puériculture devenue star de la télé attend son 4e enfant. "J’en suis au tout début de ma grossesse. Il n’a que trois mois. Je suis allée la semaine dernière faire une échographie. Je connais déjà son sexe, mais j’aimerais que mon compagnon qui est en voyage d’affaire soit le premier à savoir.", déclare-t-elle.
Cathy est connue pour avoir animé l’émission de télé-réalité Super Nanny diffusée sur la chaîne française M6 ainsi que sur RTL-TVI en Belgique.

source : www.pourseformer.fr Dominique Perez

La maternité n’est pas un événement rare et le travail des femmes est particulièrement développé en France. Pourtant tout se passe comme si les candidates à un emploi devaient adopter une attitude particulière parce qu’elles ont des enfants ou « risquent » d’en avoir. Conseils pour aborder ce thème en entretien d’embauche.

Et... comment vous organisez-vous avec vos enfants ? La question est en règle générale posée surtout aux femmes en entretien de recrutement. Mais pas systématiquement : « J’estime qu’a priori si quelqu'un postule pour un emploi il est prêt à endosser les responsabilités et la disponibilité qui vont avec. Le reste ne me regarde pas »estime un consultant en recrutement.

Si elle vous est posée ne prenez pas le temps de réfléchir vous aurez déjà préparé une réponse… très assurée. Chez vous le partage des tâches est un élément « naturel » car la carrière de l’un ne doit pas faire de l’ombre à celle de l’autre ou/et vous avez un bataillon de baby sitters toujours prêt à venir en cas d’imprévu… Bref vous avez déjà des solutions et à la limite vous pouvez même prendre l’air de celle qui est un peu étonnée par la question surtout si vous avez déjà une expérience professionnelle indiquée sur votre CV… Dans tous les cas montrez que c’est un bonheur d’avoir des enfants pas une charge !

Source : www.forbes.com Edited by Mary Ellen Egan and Chana R. Schoenberger

Our annual ranking of the most powerful women in the world measures "power" as a composite of public profile--calculated using press mentions--and financial heft. The economic component of the ranking considers job title and past career accomplishments, as well as the amount of money the woman controls.
A chief executive "controls" the revenue of her business, for instance, while a head of state gets the country's gross domestic product. The raw numbers are modified to allow comparisons across financial realms.
For the third year running Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel, is the world's most powerful woman. U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (overall rank: 28) is the woman with the highest public profile, resulting from the intense media scrutiny of her failed presidential bid

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source : www.womenco.com Dan Woog | Monster Contributing Writer
You wouldn’t wear jeans to a job interview, but do you pay as much attention to job-hunting etiquette when networking? If you’re approaching potential contacts in an offhand way, you may be putting them off entirely. Learn what the most common networking mistakes are so you don’t have to make them.
1. Waiting
Many people start networking only after they’ve lost their jobs. Effective networking means creating contacts and relationships while you’re still employed.

2. Being Clueless
If you’re heading to a networking event, make sure you know why you’re going. Do you want a job? If so, are you seeking something specific, or will anything do? Are you looking for contacts or a mentor to provide guidance? As soon as someone starts talking with you, you have to hold up your end of the conversation. If you don’t know what you want, you can’t do that.

3. Being Unprepared
Thinking you know what you want is not the same as knowing it. Treat networking the same way you would an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Practice your pitch as well as your answers to questions about your career goals that might arise.

source : http://business.theage.com.au by James Adonis
EVERY male manager I've had has been a complete loser. Blokes so devoid of managerial talent they make George Bush look competent. Maybe I've just been unlucky, I don't know. What I do know is that my female managers have rocked. Well, most of them. In my career, I've studied hundreds of managers and have come to the conclusion that when it comes to motivating and engaging employees, women do it better.

My experience is backed up by the Northwestern University in Illinois, which has analysed the results of 45 leadership studies to discover that transformational (people-focused) leadership is far more effective than transactional (task-focused) leadership. Along the way it also found that women outperformed men in transformational prowess.

This is because women are predominantly right-brain thinkers, so it's naturally easier for them to relate to people and build relationships. Men, however, tend to use the left side of the brain more frequently, the side associated with facts, figures, and fear of fluffy stuff. And that's what this article is really all about — fluffy stuff.

Women are masters at fluffy stuff. The loving, the nurturing, the touching — hearts, that is. There are exceptions. The worst manager I ever had was a lady I dubbed "The Dragon". The only thing she ever touched was my spine as she sent a chill down it every time she walked by. But an argument from exceptions and extremes is a weak argument, so let's just focus on the general female attributes that men could learn from.

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Pourquoi les femmes font-elles peur aux hommes ? " Je crois que je fais peur aux mecs ! " Ce constat, il n'y a pas que des célibataires en panne d'âme sœur pour le faire.
Pourquoi ? Laurence Virginie - journalistes dans la presse féminine - ont recueilli les confidences des hommes sur les femmes qui les entourent. sans leur faire peur ! Car c'est un fait, depuis trente ans, les femmes ont changé. Une évolution des mœurs admise par leur partenaires masculins, du moins le pensent-elles. Les hommes ne sont-ils pas de plus en plus nombreux partager les tâches quotidiennes ? Et pourtant, méfiance ! L'incompréhension semble grandissante entre des hommes en perte de repères et des femmes qui se lamentent au son de "y a plus de vrais mecs !" Entre témoignages et petits contes du quotidien, les deux auteurs, mariées et mères de famille, proposent un éclairage original et amusant sur les relations entre les deux sexes forts, de la recherche du " vivre à deux " à la gestion des petites crises de la vie de couple.