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Articles of Interest - YC

The Best Places to Launch a Career—by Lindsey Gerdes, Business Week (September 4, 2008)

A Boomer's Guide to Communicating with Gen X and Gen YYahoo Finance News (August 18, 2008)

Critical Career Junctures that Direct the Career Life-Cycle of Young Careerists - BPW Foundation issue paper (May 2008)

Crystal Ball: 10 Ways Generation Y Will Change the Workplace—Ryan Healy for Brazen Careerist blog (May 25, 2008)

Empowering Women in the Workforce—from Daily News (May 8, 2008)

Ensuring Quality School-to-Work Opportunities for Young Women—(1994)

Equality is Tricky, but Women are in the Workplace to StayThe Guardian (July 21, 2008)

The Feminine CritiqueThe New York Times (November 1, 2007)

Five Reasons Gen X is Cool with Gen YWorkforce Management (May 2008)

Flex Workers Mainly Young and Female—from Web Magazine (January 8, 2001)

Gen X and Gen Y Respond to Workplace Divides—Eric Hellweg, Harvard Business School (July 24, 2007)

Gen X, Gen Y, and Boomers in the Workplace: An Exclusive Panel Tells AllBusiness Pundit (July 24, 2008)

Generation X Feeling Sandwiched Between Boomers and Gen Y in the WorkplaceGeneration X Finance (August 18, 2008)

Generation Y Breeds a New Kind of Woman—Rebecca Thorman, Brazen Careerist blog (October 7, 2007)

Gen Y Gets Involved—Sharon Jayson, USA Today (October 24, 2006)

Generation Y: They've Arrived at Work with a New AttitudeUSA Today (November 2005)

Gen Y Women: Out of the Workplace Woods?—Rebecca Thurman, Modite blog (March 25, 2008)

Getting Ahead By Going Abroad—Discusses how working abroad can help women speed up career advancement

Girl Power at School, but Not in the Office—Hannah Seligson, freelance young careerist journalist and author of New Girl on the Job: Advice from the Trenches; in The New York Times (August 30, 2008)

How to Deal With Sexism in the WorkplaceMonica O'Brian, Twenty Set blog (March 23, 2008)

Jobs Perks Galore for Twentysomethings: Employers Scramble to Hire Gen Y Talent as Baby Boomers Head out the Door—MSNBC (October 14, 2007)

The Millennials: Ready or Not, Here They Come—NAS Recruitment

Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees—Fairleigh Dickinson University online magazine (Spring 2005)

Positioning the Embodied Experience of Young Female Political Professionals—Paper examining the career experiences of young female professionals who work in politics in Washington, DC (will need to request full paper)

Quick Facts on Nontraditional Occupations for Women—U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau offers important statistics for young careerists to know as they are entering the workforce, including information on the most equitable jobs and industries.

The Secret Method Behind My Job-Switching Madness—by Silvana Avinami, Brazen Careerist blog (September 15, 2008)

Technology Skills, Attitude Give Edge to Gen Y Women Entering the Workplace—Press release for Serena Software Mashery Survey (May 21, 2008)

Three Workplace Weaknesses that are Really Gen Y Strengths—Rebecca Thorman, Modite blog (August 6, 2007)

Twentysomething: 7 Reasons Why My Generation is More Productive than YoursBrazen Careerist blog

Twentysomething: The Rising Rift Between Gen X and Gen YBrazen Careerist blog (November 6, 2007)

Understanding the New Generation: Myths and Facts About Young Careerists - BPW Foundation Digest best practice (June 2008)

U.S. Employers Pushing Women Out of Work Force        

Welcome to the Gen Y Workplace—Employers listen up: raised in comfort and with the Internet, this generation expects work to have deeper personal meaning, Business Week (May 2005)

What a Generation Y Woman Really Wants?: A Woman in the White House, with education as her top priority (What she doesn't? To take on the nation's top job herself)The Huffington Post (March 23, 2007)

What Do Gen X and Gen Y Really Want in the Workplace?—Mario Cywinski, CanadaOne (July 2008)

What Gen Y Really WantsTime (July 5, 2007)

What To Do Before Employers Google Your Name—by Jacob Share on Brazen Careerist blog (September 16, 2008)

Who is Gen Y?—Alliance for Work and Life Progress (August 19, 2008)

Why Focus on Generation X and Generation Y as a Competitive Advantage?—Effective Workplace Series from the Sloan Work and Family Research Network (March 2008)

Why the Math and Science Gender Gap?: A Female Scientist's Take on Bridging the Gap and Encouraging Women in Science

Women Are Equal as Victims of Poor EconomyThe New York Times (July 22, 2008)

Women's "Culture Shock" in the WorkplaceSalon (April 6, 2006)

Women Redefining Role In WorkplaceInnovations Report (August 3, 2006)   

Women Will Lead This Generation; What Will Men Do?—Rebecca Thorman, Brazen Careerist blog

Workingwomen and the Glass Ceiling

Young Adult Women, Work and Family—Book by Maureen Padfield and Ian Proctor, published by Routledge, 1998

Young, Female, and Demanding: Companies Struggle to Understand Gen X's Lack of Servility

Young Women Choosing Careers Over LoveCNN (January 4, 2008)

Young Women Say Generation Labels Need Not ApplyWomen's E News (October 31, 2006)

Young Workers Show Poor Commitment to SaveAssociated Press (August 28, 2008)