Recent Press

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Weekend Today Show
"Are You Addicted to Your Work?", features an interview with Sylvia Ann Hewlett
August 5, 2007

ABC News Now
"How Do You Balance Family and Work"
May 21, 2007

Today Show
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Lisa Belkin speak with Ann Curry, May 18, 2007


Listen

NPR "On Point"
Keeping Women at Work
May 29, 2007

Harvard Business Online
May 24, 2007

Joan Hamburg Show
Podcast, May 18, 2007

HBR Ideacast
Sylvia Ann Hewlett discusses "Extreme Jobs"


Read

Harvard Business Review

"Stopping the Exodus of Women in Science,"  HBR, June 2008

New York Times
"Diversity Isn't Rocket Science, Is It?" Lisa Belkin, May 15, 2008

Financial Times
"Focus on the female talent in the backyard," Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Op-Ed, May 12, 2008

Chicago Tribune
"Workplace full of time warps, parallel universes for men, women,"  Barbara Rose, May 12, 2008

Sunday Times (UK)
"Sexist Culture Drives Women Out of Science," Steven Swinford, May 11, 2008

Harvard Business Online

"Women and Technology: The Ugly Truth," May 16, 2008

"Successful Women and Their New Challenge: Their Daughters, April 21, 2008"

"Likeability and Women's Leadership," March 14, 2008

"Diversity Comes of Age in Europe," February 26, 2008

"Diversity Matters More in a Downturn," February 4, 2008

"Helping Women Succeed: What Academia Can Learn from the Private Sector,"  January 17, 2008

"On-Ramping Comes of Age," January 7, 2008.

"Ambition and High-Octane Women, " December 6, 2007.

"The Private Sector's Immigration Problem," November 20, 2007.

"Latinas: A Strong and Growing Workforce Asset," October 29, 2007.

"The Rise of the Chief Diversity Officer," October 16, 2007

"Russia: A Huge Female Talent Resource for US Companies," October 1, 2007.

"Losing Key Talent? Give Executive Women More Choices," September 17, 2007
To accommodate the needs of female executives, more and more companies are beginning to take fertilization benefits seriously. But are they going far enough? Not everyone thinks so.

"Is Your Blackberry Lowering Your IQ?," September 4, 2007

"Is Your Extreme Job Killing You?," August 22, 2007
Driven by globalization and always-on communication technology, more and more high echelon workers are giving huge amounts of their hearts and minds to the job. But for many executives, workloads are not only heavy -- they're unrelenting.

"Top Jobs and Maternal Guilt,"  August 6, 2007
A recent study shows that 80% of highly qualified women in large corporations have one foot out the door. It's not because they don't like their work or can't deal with the performance pressures. Rather, they can't deal with a mounting load of maternal guilt.

"Women's Winning Role in the War for Talent," July 27, 2007

The Weekly Standard
Book Review: "Women at Work: The Quest for Fulfillment in Nursery and Office," August 20, 2007

New York Times
Book Review: "Opening the On-Ramp for Women," August 5, 2007

TomPeters.com
Cool Friends Interview, July 20, 2007

Huffington Post
"Cherie Blair and the On-Ramping Challenge," July 3, 2007

Guardian (UK) G2 cover story
"The Hidden Brain Drain," June 4, 2007
"In Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, Hewlett details the new programmes that companies she has been working with are running. It is inspirational stuff... Off-Ramps and On-Ramps, ostensibly aimed at the people who run companies, probably ought to be required reading for everone who works in one."

Huffington Post
"Off-Ramps and On-Ramps," June 4, 2007

Newsday
"Climb back to work is still too steep,"
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, June 1, 2007

Business Week
"The Working-Mom Quandary," June 4, 2007
Five star review! "Sylvia Ann Hewlett focuses on how 34 global companies have realized the value in refashioning jobs and careers so as to accommodate both mega-hour gray-flannel types and talented, get-it-done-quickly
mothers."

Financial Times
"Book Review: What Works for Women Works for All"
Rosemary Berkery, May 23, 2007
"The author makes the persuasive case for a new competitive model that takes into account the pressing needs of  women employees. Women are often the 'canaries in the coalmine,' she says, for judging the effectiveness of talent management policies and practices. Doing what works for women professionals is good for everyone."

Sunday Times (UK)
"From Mummy Slow Lane to the Fast Track"
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, May 21, 2007

Financial Times
"Men are from Mars, women from planet earth,"
Richard Donkin, May 17, 2007
"Books such as this are important because they are focusing on the need to adapt the way people work in the face of changing demographics. As Ms Hewlett points out, the recruitment market is tightening with increasing competition for the best candidates in the most high-powered jobs and professions... Her latest book is not so much about having it all, but about creating careers that better fit the needs and aspirations of women."

New York Times
"After Baby, Boss Comes Calling"
Lisa Belkin, May 17, 2007
"[Hewlett's] book is an upbeat chronicle of how dozens of major companies are setting out to improve those numbers."

Harvard Business School Press
"Conversation Starter"
May 17, 2007

Huffington Post
"Working Moms - Between a Rock and a Hard Place"
May 15, 2007

Wall Street Journal
"A Different Track"
Interview of Sylvia Ann Hewlett by Carol Hymowitz, April 16, 2007


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