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"Marissa Mayer. Sheryl Sandberg. We keep talking about these women rising to the top. How on earth are they doing it? And who are the next batch of jaw-droppers we&amp;#x27;ll be talking about?You may see the next gen tonight on Women to Watch. It&amp;#x27;s a special premiering on Bloomberg Television, airing tonight at 9 P.M. ET/PT, featuring four women executives in Silicon Valley:Jessica Herrin,\uFFFD? Founder and CEO, Stella &amp;amp; Dot Carolyn Everson,\uFFFD? Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook Theresia Gouw Ranzetta,\uFFFD? Managing Partner, Accel Partners Selina Tobaccowala,\uFFFD? Senior Vice President of Product and Engineering, SurveyMonkey and founder of Evite.com Here&amp;#x27;s a preview of the roundtable discussion: The show will also feature profiles of each of the women. Here&amp;#x27;s the one on Jessica Herrin. If you&amp;#x27;ve ever shopped Stella &amp;amp; Dot (or have an entrepreneural fire in you!), it&amp;#x27;s a must, must watch: I spoke to the show&amp;#x27;s host, Willow Bay (look for her in the clips!). She&amp;#x27;s definitely the right lady to helm the project; beyond being a special correspondent for Bloomberg TV, her own resum&amp;amp;eacute; includes journalism credentials from CNN, ABC, NBC, and the TED Conference, and as a Senior Editor at the Huffington Post and a mother of two, knows firsthand the challenges of juggling home and career. I asked her all about the show, and the questions you&amp;#x27;ve been posing in the comments over the last few months. GLAMOUR: Why was Women to Watch a project you were personally drawn to? WILLOW BAY: I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too. I&amp;amp;#8217;m concerned that a new generation of women heading into the workforce believes that it just can&amp;amp;#8217;t be done, that combining a high powered career and a meaningful family life is impossible. I just know this is not the case&amp;amp;#8212;that you can in fact do both. GLAMOUR: The work-life balance is the perpetual up-in-the-air question we&amp;amp;#8217;re always trying to answer here. What do you think these four women are doing differently to make their lives successful that we perhaps haven&amp;amp;#8217;t seen elsewhere? WILLOW BAY: The new buzz word in Silicon Valley is &amp;amp;#8220;integration&amp;amp;#8221;. Work-life &amp;amp;#8220;balance&amp;amp;#8221; is very 2.0. All these women share ways in which they integrate their family life and work. Facebook&amp;amp;#8217;s head of Global Solutions, Carolyn Everson, for example, takes her children along on her business trips once a quarter. They meet her clients, visit new places and get a better understanding of what mom does when she isn&amp;amp;#8217;t at home with them. GLAMOUR: Is there something in American culture that makes work-life balance easier or harder? And what would you adopt from another culture to make the integration of job and family more seamless? WILLOW BAY: The pressure to perform is relentless in today&amp;amp;#8217;s workplace&amp;amp;#8212;regardless of where you work. We are all being asked to do more with less. I think what we could borrow from the culture of Silicon Valley is &amp;amp;#8220;eat your own dog food .&amp;amp;#8221; That is an expression used by tech types to mean using what you make or sell. In Women to Watch, all these women point out ways in which technology&amp;amp;#8212;what they use, create, sell or manage in their day jobs&amp;amp;#8212;helps them manage their family life. Susan Wojcicki at Google makes a point to leave the office at 6 P.M. After 9 P.M. she gets back online to handle any pressing work issues that need her attention. She told us she hopes that sends a message to all parents that it&amp;amp;#8217;s OK to spend time away from the office. All the women we spoke to on the show use technology in a similar way. They are very clear that they don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to be chained to a desk. They can take time out of their work day to be with their families. GLAMOUR: Anne-Marie Slaughter&amp;amp;#8217;s conversation was about &amp;amp;#8220;having it all,&amp;amp;#8221; but a lot of our readers talk about simply wanting to &amp;amp;#8220;have enough.&amp;amp;#8221; Do you think that&amp;amp;#8217;s a temporary product of economic times, or a permanent attitude shift? WILLOW BAY: Wrestling with work-life balance is a luxury when working to support a family is a necessity rather than a choice. I think that focus is only partially a result of these tough economic times. I think it also reflects a bit of &amp;quot;having it all fatigue&amp;quot;: women are worn out from feeling the pressure to excel at work, and be the perfect mom at home. Maybe &amp;quot;having enough&amp;quot; has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won&amp;#x27;t be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it&amp;#x27;s really pretty messy. And that&amp;#x27;s OK. GLAMOUR: All right, so Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg have the big jobs&amp;amp;#8212;but now the pressure is on them to perform. What do you hope they&amp;#x27;ll accomplish in the next few years that&amp;#x27;ll really serve as a huge marker of victory for women? Do you think the bar is set higher or lower for them because of their gender&amp;amp;#8212;or perhaps no differently at all? WILLOW BAY: Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to &amp;amp;#8220;lean in,&amp;amp;#8221; as Sandberg so famously describes it&amp;amp;#8212;to pursue a career and a family&amp;amp;#8212;that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes. GLAMOUR: You&amp;#x27;ve spent a lot of time around incredibly dynamic women--and you are one yourself! What&amp;#x27;s one thing you&amp;#x27;ve seen in common across all of those women, and how would you translate it into advice for our readers? WILLOW BAY: One word: authenticity. I am in awe of these women&amp;amp;#8212;truly. They are incredibly intelligent, motivated, clear and effective. But what really stands out is their authenticity. They know what personal strengths have contributed to their success. They also know what makes them happy and fulfilled. They all share that clarity and authenticity. It&amp;amp;#8217;s an important message for all of us. Know who you are. Know what makes you feel challenged, productive, happy and successful. Follow that path&amp;amp;#8212;your own. I have my DVR queued! Figure out if you have Bloomberg Television here, or download the free Bloomberg TV+ iPad app on iTunes to view Women to Watch here. Will you watch tonight? Which woman are you most excited to find out about...and whose job would you want most? P.S. One female author is arguing women AREN&amp;#x27;T winning, especially in jobs! Photo: Courtesy of Bloomberg"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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