Working Mom Profiles

An interview with Maria Shriver on work-life balance. Maria Shriver found new work-life balance when Arnold Schwartzenegger won the race for governor of California and she had to give up her journalism career. In this interview, Maria Shriver tells how work-life balance stayed in the national spotlight when she expanded the Women's Conference into a national event on all the issues facing women.

Lee Woodruff works as a writer while raising her four children with broadcast journalist husband Bob Woodruff. In her memoir Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress, Lee Woodruff discusses caring for her parents, having a deaf daughter and confesses to being a non-sports mom. Bob and Lee Woodruff co-wrote the bestseller, In an Instant about Bob Woodruff's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. In this ema…

Photos of Female Athletes Who Are Moms

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 Army Wives portrays Joan Burton balancing a military career with her marriage and newborn baby. Army Wives' Joan Burton is a lieutenant colonel who struggles with redeploying to Iraq and leaving her infant and husband. Joan's husband Roland is a stay-at-home dad who 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.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in Washington. A former first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president from 1993 to 2001, Rodham Clinton came into her own politically by winning election as a New York senator from 2001 to 2009 and being appointed the 67th United States Secretary of State by President Barack...

A self-proclaimed “Constitutional Conservative,” Michele Marie Bachmann, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, became a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Politician Michele Bachmann rode into public prominence on the Tea Party tidal wave in 2010. Read on for a profile of Michele Bachmann.

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.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech on women and the economy on Sept. 16, 2011, in San Francisco. Hillary Clinton spoke about the importance of growing the economy and the role women play. By increasing women's participation in the economy, Hillary Clinton said, a country will become more competitive and prosperous....

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