The Opt-Out Myth: Most mothers have to work to make ends meet but the press writes mostly about the elite few who don't.

A kinder, gentler Lehman Brothers: Lehman and other Wall Street firms are using flexible schedules and other perks to woo employees returning to the workforce after a hiatus.

Penelopetrunk Blog: 60% of women with MBAs are working at home, and an epidemic number of women are leaving corporate life when their children come.

Management Issues: A quarter of working mothers in the United States are unhappy with their work-life balance and actively seeking jobs that will provide them with more flexibility--even if it means taking a pay cut.

Management Profile

Jayne Lange, Founder & Chief Executive Officer. Jayne is an experienced startup executive with significant corporate world presence. Her work ranges from design engineering at General Motors to running corporate partnering for Fisons plc (now Aventis), Head of Business Development and Strategic Planning, Asia/Pacific at SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) and Head of Business Development & Licensing for the gene and cell therapy sector at Novartis. Jayne’s pioneering work as one of the first women engineering graduates from General Motors Institute has encouraged a number of young women to pursue careers in technology. Jayne also received her MBA from Harvard Business School, which she attended as a General Motors Fellow. Following graduation from HBS,

Jayne pursued a career in biotechnology and consulting, both domestically and internationally in Japan and England. In 1993, she became a startup employee of COR Therapeutics, where she was responsible for the corporate partnering of Integrelin (now the largest product at Schering Plough) and later joined SyStemix (sold to Novartis) as head of corporate partnering. Following the sale of SyStemix to Novartis, Jayne became head of corporate partnering for all gene and cell therapy sector products, successfully integrating the Genetic Therapy, Inc. business into Novartis. Jayne raised her three children as a single mother after having been a trailing spouse for 19 years. She knows all too well what it's like to try to pursue a career, parenthood and a balanced life at the same time.