The status and roles of women at work have evolved in the two decades since we began talking of the 'glass ceiling.' The conversation about women and leadership is changing to examine the obstacles, pressures and trade-offs women face at every stage of their career.

What does it mean to be successful? For today's high-achieving women, success is more than breaking barriers and achieving their professional goals. Success is about how they get there, too.

Talent management is top-of-mind for many organizations seeking to be competitive in the long term. Not surprisingly, women are a crucial part of the talent equation.

Parents across the country can now hold their heads high when heading out the door to attend a teacher conference or coach a soccer game. Research shows that being a committed parent can improve your managerial skills.

Women don't always talk about their experiences as women at work. But CCL's Sara King believes that understanding women's challenges should go side-by-side with recognizing successes. Here, King answers questions posed by participants during a recent CCL Webinar.

In our April 2008

If you want to keep your career moving ahead, managing your image is a must. Your effectiveness as a leader is directly linked to how others perceive you.

In the 2008

As humans, we want to believe that creativity and innovation come in flashes of pure brilliance, with great thunderclaps and echoing ahas. Balderdash.

Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein announced plans to help simplify the often bewildering process of enrolling children in prekindergarten and kindergarten classes in New York City.

How parents and their kids come together around a children’s show and its merchandise.

Forget Second Life. The real virtual world gold rush centers on the grammar-school set.

Congress passed and sent to President Bush a five-year Head Start bill that opens up the preschool program to more children.

Two studies could change the way teachers and parents understand children who are disruptive or withdrawn.

Many entrepreneurs such as Deborah Capone, who is starting her own day care center, face perils in negotiating the city bureaucracy.

How universal pre-K could benefit middle- and upper-classchildren as much as poor ones.

The city needs to fill the growing demand for pre-K classes.

States want children to be a year older when they enter school. This could lead to better test scores and more inequality.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will call for universal prekindergarten, and Senator John McCain will urge more efficiency and ethics in government.

There’s nothing like introducing unplanned chaos into a room full of 3- and 4-year-olds.