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We're being told to become Uncle Toms, shucking and jiving our way through the workplace, fawning, ingratiating, smiling, flirting and de-meaning ourselves by pretending to be someone we're not - girls who dissemble and wheedle rather than women who command respect and negotiate the rewards that go with it.

Jane Hyun, a corporate consultant and author of "Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling," said Asian-Americans face very subtle but strong cultural barriers at work. "In Asia, there's a saying that the loudest duck gets shot; in America it's: the squeaky wheel gets the grease," said Ms. Hyun. "These things are totally different and at odds with each other."

Are working moms somehow lacking as parents compared to stay-at-home mothers? According to a new demographic analysis from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the answer is a reassuring no.

"It was the kind of place you get out of and you never want to go back again." That's how one former reporter describes the News of the World newsroom under editor Rebekah Brooks, the ferociously ambitious titian-haired executive who ran Britain's top-selling Sunday tabloid from 2000 to 2003.

It's a movie poster! It's a Google results page! These creative resumes actually landed job interviews for their creators.

The ABA Journal reported late last week that a St. Louis federal jury, in what might be a record breaking verdict to a single plaintiff, awarded $95 million in damages to a former Aaron’s Inc. associate for sexual harassment, $15 million in compensatory and $80 million in punitive damages.

According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology in fall 2010 titled, “When It Comes to Pay, Do the Thin Win? The Effect of Weight on Pay for Men and Women,” a woman’s weight can have a significant impact on her earnings.

When Paige's daughter was 6 months old, her boss called her into his office and demanded to know how long she planned to breastfeed. Paige, an archeological research assistant, says she had been pumping three times a day for 20 minutes at a time, closing the door to her office so she could use a hands-free model and continue working. But her boss was unhappy.

A conversation with James Quigley, chief executive of Deloitte. Leadership is the art of enabling people to work collectively so that they can create results that they couldn't obtain alone. In the old days, people in large corporations understood this in terms of hierarchical command and control. In today's interconnected world, such an approach fails to produce the innovation and results you need.

Nine out of every 10 mid-level managers lack confidence in their own ability to fulfill their job responsibilities!