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Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

03/12/13

I have been following the deluge of blog posts, tweets, etc., which followed the publication of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic article on “Having it All” . I gave my own response on “Having a life” in my blog , and also tweeted my take, which led her to quote me in her response. The overall...

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Terri E. Givens

Open Flexible Work

03/12/13

Sheryl Sandburg's new book Lean In puts a spotlight on the shortage of women leaders in the work force. She underscores that motherhood is a time when many women get side tracked from their careers. She advises young women to "lean in" in order to stay on track, move up the hierarchy, and become...

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Joan Blades

Gun Safety

03/12/13

Ms. Maxwell is also a law student, political commentator, and living with death threats. Last week, she suggested teaching men not to rape as an option to arming women with guns. For this, Maxwell received a threat to slit her throat. Rape remains an obstacle to female advancement. There were about...

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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

Open Flexible Work

03/12/13

This is an e-mail that MomsRising.org received at its member feedback "line": feedback@momsrising.org . So, once again Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer moves a pinky and the 24-hour news hounds start fanning the flames of discord among the working world’s haves and have-nots – pitting parents, non-parents...

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Anonymous MomsRising Member

03/12/13

This article originally appeared in Forbes . Searching for the Sheryl Sandbergs of Asia on Twitter. Give me a name and tell me why #top25womenAsia I just had to send that tweet out. For the third time in a month, I had seen a list recommending 25 women to follow on Twitter. For the third time in a...

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Tanvi Gautam

Family Economic Security

03/12/13

What a lot of attention the book Lean In by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has generated. The self-help book, mostly geared towards college-educated women who are or want to be on the executive track, promotes believing in oneself, taking risks and pursing ambitious goals as tactics for personal and...

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Linda Meric

03/12/13

Have you ever felt dissatisfied in a situation, and thought, “What if? ”...But not like, “What if a giant walrus fell on my boss’s head?" I mean: Goals, dreams, etc. That is what Lean In is about. Below are my Cliff’s Notes . Dissatisfaction spurs change , Sheryl Sandberg states in Lean In. And by...

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Kathy Korman Frey

03/12/13

This article originally appeared in Fast Company . As the clocks and walls that used to divide work from the other parts of life began to disappear, I started to search for new, modern ways to make what matters happen both on and off the job. For almost two decades, I’ve worked in the trenches with...

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Cali Yost

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

03/12/13

I’ve been thinking a lot about women and our place in society the last couple of weeks. This is appropriate, as it is Women’s History Month and was kicked off at PBS with “ Makers ,” a three-hour documentary on the “second-wave” women’s movement.I sat down to watch it last weekend and was...

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Donna Schwartz Mills

Childcare & Early Education Family Economic Security

03/12/13

Photo: I am holding my son, then a baby, at my parents’ home in New Hampshire in 2004. At the time, my parents, grandparents and youngest sibling lived in the same three-bedroom townhouse. Growing up, I always lived with extended family or family members stayed with us for extended periods of time...

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