Open Flexible Work

December 5, 2012

In a snarky article , the newspaper of record confirms what we already know: Kate Middleton is pregnant. She's so nauseated that she's in the hospital on an intravenous drip. She's just lucky she's not an American gal. U.S. employers regularly fire pregnant women when they need modest...

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Joan C. Williams

Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work Family Economic Security

November 27, 2012

Late night calls are the worst. Mine came all the way from Shanghai, China, where my parents live part of the year. My dad's voice was faint, halting. He told me quickly that my mom had fallen and broken her leg and he was with her in the hospital right now. She would need surgery. Could I leave...

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Cynthia Liu

Open Flexible Work

November 9, 2012

The Dismal Reality of Today New parents—let’s call them Julie and Brad—just had their first baby, a little girl they named Samantha. Julie was only able to take 6 weeks off from her job before her disability insurance and accumulated vacation pay ran out. A few months before their baby’s birth,...

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Carla Moquin

Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 30, 2012

(this post was originally published in my blog, LadydeeLG , on July 18, 2012.) Yesterday I commented on Ms. Mayer’s thoughts and focused on what her non-existent maternity leave could say to employers and employees about the expectations and needs of working mothers (and parents) or what employers...

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Diana Limongi

Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Open Flexible Work MomsVote Health Care Food!

October 24, 2012

In 2011, I taught two summer courses, directed a federal budget research organization and paid taxes. Taxes are the dues I pay for living in a democracy. Like you, I contribute at the local, state, and federal levels. I want us to fall a little bit in love with the federal budget and there’s no...

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Jo Comerford

Open Flexible Work

October 21, 2012

More telling than Governor Mitt Romney’s inaccurate “binders full of women” comment during the presidential debate last week, were his comments about workplace flexibility, and, the comments he didn’t make. When asked by voter Katherine Fenton how he planned to rectify the inequalities in the...

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Liz O'Donnell

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

October 9, 2012

How fitting that Marissa Mayer birthed her baby on the eve of National Work and Family month. Yet she disappoints other moms , bloggers and work-family advocates by stating she'll work throughout her maternity leave , appearing on Fortune Magazine 's cover in a decidedly not-pregnant glam shot and...

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Nanette Fondas

Open Flexible Work

October 9, 2012

This blog was originally posted on October 2, 2012 on the Huffington Post I've been thinking a lot about the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on our work and family lives and continue to be fascinated by this topic. The Pew Internet & American Life Project reported this...

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Judith Casey

Open Flexible Work

October 7, 2012

In 2004 I co-founded a digital strategy company that focuses on inbound marketing (i.e., getting clients found via the Internet). My team consists of independent contractors that work virtually throughout the US as well as in other countries. In talking with Joan Blades, I learned that we worked...

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Mackey Cynthia

Open Flexible Work

October 2, 2012

Every year The Center for WorkLife Law, which I direct, runs a leadership academy for women law firm partners . One key message we send is that sometimes what it takes to make partner is different from what it takes to rise in the partnership. “I’ve noticed that the women work so exceptionally hard...

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Joan C. Williams