Women in the Workforce Declining

"The number of women in the workplace has been declining for several years...a Congressional study released today found that women aren't "opting out" of the workforce to raise children. For the first time in nearly a half-century, they are being forced onto the sideline by bad economic times." I wonder how many of those women are in information technology or the field of Public Relations http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Parenting/story?id=5424072&page=1.

Mommy bloggers and Motrin

I have been raving about moms (women) in the workforce but what exactly are the mommy bloggers thinking? I am a single mom with three children, I had to literally carry my oldest child (then age 3) on my hip until my third trimester with the second child. My last child weighed 9lbs 14ozs and I carried him in a sling until he was about 15 1/2 to 16lbs. So, I get the point of Motrin trying to say, carrying the babies on the body on a daily basis will cause muscle pain and soreness.

Mommy bloggers obviously have a substantial amount of influence but they need to apply their knowledge to public relations activities in their communities and spend their extra time with their children.

Women are superior

Personally, I feel that women are just as good if not better at PR than men. Women have a better understanding of what people want and they know how to accommodate that need. The internet within itself is a strange but useful tool. Women are patient enough to guide their clients through the processes of learning how to set-up social networking medias for their companies (even when that client is consistently saying, they just don't understand).

How Women Consume Online Media

Full-time, professional women are responding to online ads at an increasing rate. Although pop-up ads were among some of the dislikes, they still received 1.7 percent of the votes. Yahoo sites ranked first followed by Google. See more at http://www.clickz.com/showPage.htm?page=3628538 and http://www.webadvantage.net/webadblog/us-women-and-the-internet-part-2-731.

Stay-at-home moms have become internet moms

Since stay-at-home moms have become a thing of the past, women have turned to managing their lives online: http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release1162.html.

Women and the Information Technology Field

The amount of women in the information technology field has begun to decline primarily due to additional stresses caused by "glass ceilings". More can be found at: http://www.impactlab.com/2005/03/09/why-women-are-leaving-the-information-technology-field/ and http://associatedcontent.com/article/34818/the_glass_ceiling_for_women_working.html.

Women have had issues in the workforce for several years. Now that a technological position is the "one" to have, who is actually worth more? The Department of Labor has established trends and other information to better inform us on this topic: http://www.dol.gov/audience/aud-women.htm.