More women are opting to juggle two careers: that of raising children and holding down a paying job. And for the past 10 years, the National Association for Women in Careers has helped women balance those roles.
Approximately 200 members of the association met at the Wyndham Hamilton Hotel in Itasca last weekend to celebrate their progress as well as network and build new skills to help them in their lives, both on the homefront and in the workplace.
They gathered in the Lake Shore Room for cocktails, dinner, speeches and entertainment, all focused on the progress made and the challenges ahead.
”Women still have a long way to go,” Mary Kay Slowikowski, the association`s founder, said during her speech, ”The Career Woman: New Horizons.” ”Women need to know how to help each other.”
The three-day convention, the theme of which was ”Celebrating the Renaissance Woman of the Nineties,” offered workshops to help women grow intellectually, emotionally, physically, spiritually, socially and
financially.
Ellen Kamis, president of the association`s Northwest chapter, which sponsored the event, said the organization has helped her. She and a partner run a successful graphics design business.
Kimberly Cooper, the convention chairwoman, said the entire weekend was a great experience. ”It has been motivational and re-energizing,” Cooper said. ”We can go back to our jobs with a different perspective.”
