The Winter 2000 Issue contains a. o. the following articles:

CAREER

Career Strategies for International Women
Don't leave your career behind when you move
While women make up fewer than 12% of expatriate executives, they do account for 85% of partners accompanying overseas assignees. The unfortunate reality is that the vast majority of these partners, regardless of whether or not they were employed before they went overseas, will not be able to find paid employment during their tenure abroad. With some careful planning, creativity and strategizing it is possible to make the best of your time abroad, and not wind up with a sizeable hole to fill in your CV upon your return, or to take with you to your next international posting.
Mary van der Boon, e-mail: globaltmc@worldmail.nl

LEGAL AFFAIRS

Read the full article: Temporary Residence Permit for Foreign Spouses

CULTURE

Communication Across Cultures
Robin Mulder brings you through the gamut of how culture affects perception, how perception affects communication, and how to make your assumptions explicit in a non-threatening way. Because cultural backgrounds vary so greatly and the personal experiences of individuals are different, perception and thinking also vary in an infinite number of ways. Some kind of comfort or discomfort will normally be present when we interact with someone of a different culture. We are continually in the process of expanding our comfort zone. We do not automatically see, hear, think and feel the same things as a result of the words and gestures we use when we talk to each other. It takes special skills to enable us to understand each other well.
Yes2NS@aol.com
Robin Mulder, e-mail: Yes2NS@aol.com

EDUCATION

Read the full article : Dutch Language

LEISURE

The Biesbosch National Park - Sailing on a Whisper
Imagine that under you are the homes of people who drowned centuries ago. Imagine sailing down a creek and suddenly coming across a church spire sticking eerily out of the water. Imagine … Under what is now the Biesbosch (reed forest) National Park, sixteen villages lie beneath a land-locked sea, forever lost in a kind of Dutch Atlantis.
Kate Robbins