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Pride Month Coverage: Making it Easier for Professional Women to “Come Out” in Corporate America

Nancy, a manager of a creative group in a large financial company in the Fortune 500, was facing a dilemma that an estimated 21% of employees in the workplace also face. Soon after joining the company, she had to figure out how to “out” herself as a lesbian to her boss who had “no clue” about her sexual orientation. “It was very uncomfortable for me to figure out how to say something to him,” she said, “The idea of actually having to tell him was so weird. I hadn’t had to think about it [whe

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This post was written by Career Training on June 26, 2009 Comments (0)

Obama’s full argument to doctors about his big healthcare plans — Text

Earlier today The Ticket had a news item here on Obama’s speech in Chicago . Now here’s the full transcript: Remarks of President Obama to the Annual Conference of the American Medical Assn. in Chicago, June 15, 2009 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Good to see you. Thank you so much. Please everybody be seated. Thank you very much.You’re very kind. (Applause.) Let me begin by thanking Nancy for the wonderful introduction. I want to thank Dr. Joseph Heyman, the chair of the Boa