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Posted November 26th, 2011 by Nanette Fondas
On Wednesday a new poll [PDF] was released that shows that people who are most likely to need paid family leave are least likely to be aware of programs that provide it. Specifically, California registered voters were surveyed to assess their awareness of the state’s groundbreaking Paid Family Leave Act, passed nearly 10 years ago. [...]
Posted October 6th, 2011 by Nanette Fondas
This morning my six-year-old snuggled next to me on the couch, an iPad on his lap open to a smurfs game app; the Wall Street Journal on my lap, headline blazing “Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011.” I lifted the paper up to show him the photo of Jobs and told him that the inventor of the [...]
Posted August 25th, 2011 by Nanette Fondas
At a time when work, workers and the workplace are “job one” for the struggling U.S. economy, it’s discouraging to find out that the nation just can’t get serious about taking half of its workforce seriously. The female half. I’m referring to Wednesday’s court decision in which U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska dismissed a class-action discrimination [...]
Posted October 27th, 2010 by Nanette Fondas
Five reasons WOMEN’s progress into management has stalled.
Posted August 31st, 2010 by Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas
**Scroll down to the comments section to see the conversation from our 9/2/2010 evening blog chat. And of course, you can still join the conversation by asking questions and typing your comments in the comment box. Hit “Submit Comment” and join our Q&A!** Have you been there? Frustrated that it’s nearly impossible to excel at [...]
Posted August 10th, 2010 by Nanette Fondas
The labor market punishes mothers and others who make lane changes during the course of their work lives.
Posted August 6th, 2010 by Nanette Fondas
Even in a recession, flex-time, job-sharing, compressed schedules, and telecommuting increase employee productivity and reduce costs. The net effect? A boost to the bottom line.
Posted April 20th, 2010 by Nanette Fondas
Ten years ago I gave birth to two babies: one girl, one boy. Their birthday is today, Equal Pay Day. Right now they are neck-in-neck with their weekly allowance, but if they were fifteen years older, my daughter’s college degree, MBA, technological training, organizing and management experience, and even her Rhodes Scholarship would all probably [...]
Posted March 15th, 2010 by Nanette Fondas
People want options to work flexible schedules and remotely from home. Other ways to make the workplace more compatible with today’s workers’ lives include results-only work environments, taking infants to work, redesigning career, tracks, and opting for contract work.
Posted October 30th, 2009 by Nanette Fondas
I’ve been on a one-woman campaign to resurrect the phrase, paycheck job, used by Betty Friedan in The Feminine Mystique forty years ago. Friedan was referring, of course, to jobs outside the home for which people receive money. She recognized that the unpaid job of caring for children and home was also “work”—as do most [...]
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