Profiles of Famous Working Moms
Read profiles of Michelle Obama, Sara Lee CEO Brenda Barnes, and more working moms who lead high-profile lives in government, corporate America or the media. Please suggest working moms to profile.
The top working mom blog posts of 2009 revolved around famous working moms and the health and well-being of our children. The working mom blog posts that sparked the most comments were about Jon and Kate (Gosselin, that is), Sarah Palin and Dr. Laura Schlessinger's book about stay-at-home moms. And then the fed got concerned about lead in children's clothes and toys sold at thrift stores.
The Lifetime drama [i]Army Wives[/i] portrays Joan Burton, a working mom balancing a military career with her marriage and newborn baby. [i]Army Wives'[/i] Joan Burton is a lieutenant colonel in the Army who struggles with redeploying to Iraq and separating from her infant and husband. Joan's husband Roland gave up his career as a psychiatrist to be a stay-at-home dad, though he also sees some patients at a clinic that has on-site child care.
Working mom Euna Lee gained international prominence when she and colleague Laura Ling were detained in North Korea while reporting for Current Media about trafficking of women along the China-North Korea border. Euna Lee and Laura Ling were sentenced to 12 years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea. After 140 days in jail, Euna Lee and Laura Ling were released on Aug. 4, 2009, after former President Bill Clinton intervened.
View a Photo Gallery of Celebrity Moms Who Work, From Angelina Jolie to Michelle Obama
Who are the top celebrity working moms? Forbes ranked celebrity moms in Hollywood according to their estimated earnings from movies, album sales, salaries and income from endorsement and licensing deals.
Michelle Obama's work choices exemplify the tradeoffs many mothers make in balancing family and career. Michelle Obama worked at the law firm Sidley and Austin before deciding to take a pay cut to work in the nonprofit and government sector. As senator, Barack's work made Michelle Obama feel like a single mom until she demanded more help from Barack. Michelle Obama left her job when her husband ran for, and then won, the presidency of the U.S.
Brenda C. Barnes exclusive interview. Brenda Barnes stunned corporate America by quitting as president of PepsiCo North America to be a stay-at-home mom. Later, Brenda Barnes joined Sara Lee Corp. as COO and became CEO a year later. Any working mom worried about an employment gap need only look at Brenda Barnes' journey from Pepsi to be the 9th highest-ranking female CEO in the Fortune 500.
On January 13, 2009, at age 60, Carol Bartz became chief executive officer of Yahoo!, Inc. Carol Bartz held management positions at Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, and 3M Corporation. Before Yahoo!, Carol Bartz was CEO of Autodesk, a company that saw its shares increase more than 10-fold with her at the helm.
