Recent research into attitudes to working mothers suggests it is time businesses started to embrace flexible working.

Recently, deputy prime minster Nick Clegg criticised Britain’s ‘Edwardian’ system of parental leave for working mothers and fathers. He said it was based on a ‘view of life in which mothers stay at home’. Sadly, it seems that too many employers share that view.

Coming soon: Start A Family Friendly Business
Flexible working ideas, the pros and cons of being your own boss, choosing the right business for you and realistic advice from the UK mumpreneurs.
Here’s what people are saying about it:

Has pregnancy made you rethink your career? I was speaking to a journalist from a national baby magazine about this yesterday. She asked me about the numbers of mums who were looking at changing career post baby, and I said that the majority of women who have a serious rethink … even if many decide that going back to work is the only option available due to contracts or financial commitments.

Read this final article from Editor of Business Opportunity Watch Marian Owen with great advice on making your party plan business a success from the start.

This is the second of three articles about picking the right party plan business from Marian Owen, Editor of Business Opportunity Watch, www.businessopportunitywatch.com
First of all, you need to find out what choice you have.  There’s a nice website with a good selection of companies at Party Plan Together in their Directory section. If you search Google UK under “party plan” then you’ll find some more – but make sure that you distinguish between true party plan companies where party plan is the main selling method, and other companies which recommend a …

If you’re a mother at home then you may be particularly attracted to party plan because it’s a social way of earning money which can help to fill the gap left by the contact you used to have with different people whilst you were working.  Parties are often held in the evening, so this offers the possibility of arranging your party plan business to fit around your domestic commitments.

Appletree is growing again!
We’re looking for a part-time or full-time Account Manager/Marketing Assistant to join us in October 2009, for a minimum of three days per week.
Here’s what we need someone to do:

To carry out regular marketing activity for a particular client, to help maintain a flow of potential clients into that business and help it to grow (two days per week)
To provide copywriting services to a range of Appletree’s clients for marketing materials (½ – 1½ days per week)
To help build Appletree’s reputation by maintaining the provision of high quality …