O: Open Flexible Work
Posted January 21st, 2012 by Valerie Young
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Mothers have a genius for on-the-spot problem solving. Sizing up a looming crisis in a nanosecond, we flip through our mental list of optional responses, then implement, discard, and substitute possible solutions until the crisis is resolved and order restored. Every single day mothers meet [...]
Posted January 20th, 2012 by Judith Casey
Excitement continues to build about the new Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN), the international membership organization of interdisciplinary work and family researchers. We’ve had a terrific response to our inaugural conference, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Work and Family, June 14-16, 2012 in New York City. Over 700 participants from over 30 countries will be on [...]
Posted January 10th, 2012 by Valerie Young
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Why ease in to 2012 when we can take a flying leap directly into the epicenter of the maternal conflict? Sister blogger ButIDoHaveALawDegree graciously permits me to run her latest post here, in full, and I’m certain it will strike a major chord with you. [...]
Posted December 20th, 2011 by Misty McLaughlin
Another smart post from our friends at Role/Reboot. -Eds. I’m on the board of a small, parenting-related nonprofit organization, a board comprised of smart, thoughtful women who are mostly mothers of small children (and one dad, though our father pool is growing). In addition to our full-time parenting jobs, pretty much all of us have [...]
Posted December 19th, 2011 by Joan C. Williams
For years I would wake up at 5:30 in the morning every Black Friday, leaving the kids with my mother-in-law, and get to the mall by 6:15 am. Every year, I would return six or seven hours later, loaded down with presents, and my mother-in-law would say, “There you are! I took care of your [...]
Posted December 15th, 2011 by Leslie Bennetts
American mothers are hard-hit by the tough economy, with 42 percent more women than men living in poverty and single moms especially vulnerable. Yet women work valiantly to sustain families, and remain thankful that they can manage at all. In a new study on American families released today, the toll of tough times is painfully [...]
Posted December 7th, 2011 by Lily Eskelsen
Any second-grader could do the math. I say the Job Creators are the 99% who clip discount coupons from the Sunday newspaper so they can get 4 cans for $1.
Posted December 6th, 2011 by Ruth Martin
I’m a mom of a two-and-a-half year old and a three month old and I have a full time job. If I have any extra “me” time that isn’t spent shirking the gym and the growing piles of laundry, I’ll probably spend it sleeping. So a TV show has to be super appealing to make it [...]
Posted November 21st, 2011 by Valerie Young
From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Prepare to be impressed with yourselves, girls. The US Census Bureau just put out new numbers on maternity leave and employment which show we’ve spent the past 40 years investing wisely in ourselves. First time mothers are more likely to have at least an undergrad [...]
Posted November 21st, 2011 by Kristin Maschka
1. Don’t choose what to do. (Choose what NOT to do – quickly.) My career has been propelled most by the times I started down a path, realized it was not a good fit, and quickly chose NOT to do it anymore. Even when that decision was painful, risky or counter-intuitive. Four months in, I realized [...]
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