by Wanda Slendak | May 25, 2022 | Career, Career break, Coaching, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Expat, Gender gap, Job Market, Returning to work
Our #Returnship kick-off event at the Workiva office in Amsterdam was a success! Thank you to those who joined us last week and to our partner Workiva for hosting us and providing #career opportunities for mums returning back to the #workforce after a #careerbreak....
by Angela Fusaro | Apr 10, 2020 | Academia, Career change, Coaching, Expat, Family, Job Market, Motherhood, Netherlands, Parenting, Work-life balance, Workplace
A chat with Lena?Karvovskaya, PhD Community Manager?RDM at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam Can you tell us something about your career and background? My background is in theoretical linguistics, the study of languages. In 2017, I defended my dissertation at Leiden...
by Angela Fusaro | Jul 30, 2018 | Career, Dutch, Expat, France, Life, Parenting
Anne Dohmen is a journalist for a Dutch newspaper. She writes about diversity at the?workplace, the pay gap between men and women and work-life balance. She lives in Paris and?is a mother of two children, ages 3 and 1. How was your career before becoming a mum? I...
by Angela Fusaro | May 1, 2018 | Community, Expat, Motherhood, Writing
Introducing Shweta Shweta Ganesh Kumar is a?writer and a parenting columnist. She is?the?founder of?The Times Of Amma -?an online community to inspire?mothers one day at a time. Shweta is originally from India. She currently lives in Hungary with her two children and...
by Angela Fusaro | Jun 14, 2017 | Career, Community, Dutch, Expat, Family, Motherhood, Writing
Mandie van der Meer is a writer, teacher and editor of ACCESS Magazine – a lifestyle publication for the?international community living in The Netherlands.?Mandie expects her first child in August this year. She recently sat down with Every Mother Knows to tell...
by Angela Fusaro | Feb 10, 2017 | Career, Expat, Family, Maternity leave, Motherhood, Netherlands, Parenting, Relocation, Returning to work, Work-life balance
Julia Ganol is from?Zhytomyr, a city located 120 km away from Kiev, Ukraine. A few years ago she moved to The Netherlands with her husband and daughter. She works in the IT industry and recently sat down with Every Mother Knows to tell us her story. How old was your...