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By Luis Carlos Montalvan

Nearly fifty years ago, Sgt. Myrtle Vacirca-Quinn was an intelligence officer, often working behind enemy lines. Watch her, this week, as she finally receives a “Freedom Salute – Certificate of Appreciation” from the Army she served long ago.

No women on the corporate board, no women in senior management? Take your career elsewhere, writes Douglas A. McIntyre, who spotlights some of the worst corporate offenders.

The eternal blond has gone hi-tech geek, complete with Bluetooth headset and netbook. But in Silicon Valley, the news is not good.

Special work assignments usually offer special experiences. Like the time I cooked and test-marketed new hamburger sandwiches — mushroom Swiss and pizza barbecue — as part of a promotion for a fast-food chain, or when I ran catering triage behind the scenes of a professional golf tournament. These out-of-the-office jobs opened my eyes to real [...]

The Constitution Center in Philadelphia, perhaps best known in recent years as the site of President Obama’s iconic speech on race, was packed this past Monday night. The two women onstage, Lynn Yeakel and Gail Collins — Yeakel, a Drexel University professor and the woman who challenged Senator Arlen Specter in 1992, and Collins, the [...]

1.  What are you working on now? I’m writing my second novel, Left Neglected. This is a story about a woman in her mid-thirties who is like so many women I know today—multi-tasking all day long, trying to be everything to everyone at work and at home, trying to succeed at everything, spread extremely thin. One [...]

Sometimes it feels as if all the buzz in literature, especially poetry, is about youth. Who won the Yale Younger Poets Award? The XYZ Fellowship for Writers Under Thirty? That’s only one of the reasons we’re thrilled for Lisa Russ Spaar, who nearly a decade after being nationally recognized as an “emerging writer” by the [...]

Some WVFC readers might remember a Nanette Lepore fashion catwalk we embedded last year for one of our Pat Allen’s posts; the very last dress in it, after all the signature Lepore pieces, was a T-shirt saying simply: SAVE THE GARMENT CENTER. It passed by so quickly, you might not have had time to ask: [...]

Well-managed businesses generally thrive in poor and healthy economies alike. Such visionary organizations have a tendency to change gears in accordance with market demand. They  invest in capacity-building in growth industries and grab technological advantages. They invest in, and continue developing, strong human capital, which can lower turnover and ensure smoother management successions without a [...]