We have been gathering lots of inspiring new stories of women who have successfully returned to work after their career break. You'll fi...

Strategic volunteering can build your skills, be intellectually demanding and provide a route back to work after a career break. We h...

You have landed that first contract, but now it is your responsibility to get paid, set yourself up as a sole trader or maybe create y...

We are often asked lots of interesting questions and thought it would be useful to share our answers to a few of these which we find...

It can seem daunting to contemplate a return to architecture after a prolonged period away. My focus in this post is on where to acqu...

This week I contributed to a Guardian online live webchat Q&A on improving your work-life balance. It struck me that the vast major...

What happens to participants after a returnship programme? How do their careers develop and are they happy in the longer term to be back in ...

Every January it is hard to avoid the talk of 'new year - new you' wherever you look. For women on a career break, the new year is...

It's that manic run-up-to-Christmas time again: finishing off the year's projects, fitting in school end-of-term events, making ...

Today we introduce Muriel Clark who will be a regular contributor to our blog. Muriel has joined Women Returners as our Digital Media Exper...

Last month my youngest child turned 18 and I suddenly found myself in the position of being a parent of two adults. While this has been a...

With the launch of the 2016 Bank of America Merrill Lynch Returning Talent Programme, we caught up with Carla who told us all about he...

Any of these sound familiar ...? I should have chosen a more flexible career I should have spent more time with my kids when they were...

If you've been out of the workplace for many years, we often recommend that you consider strategic volunteering, but it may not ...