The 10 Most Successful Female CEOs of All Time

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Women have slowly but surely made their way into the corporate world over the last few decades. Still, only 18 women are running Fortune 500 companies. These female CEOs have broken the gender barriers in business, but not without many years of hard work, rejections, and slow promotions. Here are the 10 most successful female CEOs of all time.

Is it Gender or Skills that Make a Good Social Media Marketer?

Ten years ago I started working for my husband providing marketing services for his software business. At the time, we were not married and he lived in another state therefore most of our communication was done over the phone. He didn’t have any background in marketing, and figured since I had taken some college courses related to marketing I could turn his business around.

How I wish social media was then what it is today. We were lucky to at least have Instant Messenger.

According to ComScore 2010 US Digital Year in Review women spend more time social networking than men. Women spent approximately 16.8% on social sites in December of 2010 while men spent only 12%.

Today, social media tools are just as much associated with businesses as well as personal lives. Some researchers …

How to Become a Healthy Work-at-Home Family – 5 Helpful Tips

There has been an abundance of parents choosing to have a career so they can work from home, and for just as many reasons it seems. Perhaps that’s the reason there are so many advertisements for ‘working at home’ plans and programs, because they are well aware of the public’s desire for it. For some, it’s not a desire, but an actual necessity.

One reason a parent might choose this path is because of the exorbitant cost of daycare. By working from home, a family can save thousands of dollars a year just by not having to place their kids in daycare.

I have heard of a family who wanted to stay home with their disabled child. They couldn’t find a place to provide attentive and individualized care for their child, without having to take …

Women at Work: The Most Irritating Office Behaviors

Whether it’s the coworker that can’t seem to keep herself from shouting on the phone or the obnoxious office gossip, we’ve all been there. Stuck on a project with a lazy coworker, or even worse, sharing a cubicle with a coworker who just can’t mind her business. Sound familiar?

Take a gander at these top five irritating office behaviors to see if there are any bad habits that you need to break in the workplace:

Not responding to e-mails. There is nothing more annoying than a coworker who simply won’t respond to an e-mail, especially regarding an important matter. Is this coworker too busy to shoot an e-mail back as a simple response? Or maybe this coworker lacks the organizational skills to keep her e-mail inbox clean? Either way, don’t commit this cardinal sin. If you don’t …

New Business Cards and Other Woman Tribune-Branded Paraphernalia

Woman Tribune has been around since January 2008 and yet we have never had actual, official business cards. Can you believe that? I know, it is pretty mind-boggling for our world of booming blog businesses, conferences, events and miscellaneous get-togethers. The truth is, I tend to still have a very “old school” outlook on blogging, and I think that is because of the time when I started blogging–before anyone really knew what a blog was and I was told repeatedly that I was merely wasting time sitting in front of a computer for hours on end–as well as why I started blogging in the first place.

I began blogging in order to catalog and sort out my own thoughts and then overcome my own, unique struggles. It was easy. I sat at my computer, typed …

Oh, How Pinteresting: Words to Live By (When You Freelance)

I have worked from home, frequently freelancing, since I was 18 years old. It has been a wild and ever-changing nearly-seven years of blogging, blogging and more blogging, on top of taking the (now very seldom) web design and development gig. I used to do a whole lot more of that–prioritizing clients over most everything else, creating new websites or fixing old websites, consulting on new ways for businesses to reach potential new customers, doing a whole lot of copywriting and explaining the concept of social media and how it’s just waiting there to become their new, very needy friend (yes, there are still businesspeople out there who have yet to embrace social media, believe me!)–but a few months ago, I stopped working with most clients. I let my official Hire Me! Hire Me! domain expire, I put up notices on Facebook and …