Journal Women: Through the Glass Ceiling

All the recent changes at WSJ.com seem to get attributed to Rupert Murdoch’s dubious influence, except this one. Wall Street Journal Online launches a new section devoted to women in business, Journal Women. One of the featured section in this new page “The Juggle,” says it all. The content discusses both tales of successful businesswomen as well as the everyday challenges of balancing work, family, health, etc. The key writer for the site, Carol Hymowitz starts a new column, “Above the Glass” about women and business leadership, while other regular columnists will cover life and family. According to the Journal, this is an extension into “life franchises” and an attempt to provide women’s content that is not all celebrity and fashion. WSJ says (like everyone else) that it is cultivating a “community,” but user-generated content seems fairly absent on the front page, although the Juggle blog is generating considerable user commentary. We would like to see more of that float to the top, however.