Something They Don’t Want Us to Know

Think you’re getting shut out of prime work assignments because you have to do school pick-up?

Have a feeling the “boys” are getting more parenting-credit at the office for going to a soccer game than you are for pediatrician’s appointments?

If so, you may be able to hold your bosses legally accountable.

There’s been increased attention in recent months to the so-called “opt-out” phenomenon – professional working women supposedly abandoning the workforce in droves for full-time mommydom.

Kids Worried Sick

It’s bad enough that we live in a country where working mothers have to worry about losing their jobs if they take time off to tend to a sick or injured child.

Now, children are worrying about whether they should confide feeling ill with their parents because some have seen their mothers get fired for staying home to care for them.

Author Ellen Bravo writes on The Nation’s website about the impact this phenomenon is having on the children of working mothers.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Can’t Do It Alone

Alissa’s Tale

What Hope Is There for the Rest of Us?

My heart sank when I saw this article on the front page of The Washington Post.

“Michelle Obama’s Career Time Out.”

Front page coverage presenting her as a high profile victim of the balancing/opt-out discussion.