Open Flexible Work

October 6, 2011

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 iPad had died. "...

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Nanette Fondas

Health Care Open Flexible Work

September 30, 2011

By Galen Sherwin, Staff Attorney ACLU Women's Rights Project Women should not be forced to choose between breastfeeding their babies and pursuing a legal education — right? Wrong — at least according to the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that administers the LSAT. This...

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Roger Baldwin

Childcare & Early Education Open Flexible Work

September 27, 2011

Last week reading a few new articles on worklife fit, brought to mind a mantra I have about organizational change. In the battle between well-intentioned policies and the unwritten rules of any workplace, unwritten rules win every time. From the Sloan Center on Aging and Work came this Fact of the...

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Kristin Maschka

Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals MomsVote

September 23, 2011

This past Saturday, the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) completed its 16th Biennial Convention. where we recommitted ourselves to those priorities that are so critical to working women and their families. The highest priority at our founding convention 37 years ago and now is JOBS ! But when...

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Carol Rosenblatt

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

September 22, 2011

Elizabeth Gedmark is a Law Fellow at A Better Balance. NBC’s new comedy show, “Up All Night,” which premiered Wednesday night stars Christina Applegate as a working mother who has just come back to work after taking maternity leave. Her husband, played by Will Arnett, is a new stay-at-home Dad who...

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Elizabeth Gedmark

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages Families & The Federal Budget

September 21, 2011

On the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, MomsRising is celebrating Latina mothers across the United States, ¡Con Mucho Gusto! (With great pleasure.) With a population of 50 million in the United States (1), Latinos have and will continue to contribute to our country...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Environmental Health Open Flexible Work

September 13, 2011

On the list of paradoxes, not many beat flying around the world to give talks about climate change. I can justify my carbon footprint if I have to--with myself as the main moving part, we've managed to build 350.org into the first big global climate campaign, organizing what CNN has called the "...

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Bill McKibben

Open Flexible Work

September 6, 2011

Labor Day marks the one year anniversary of the publication of The Custom-Fit Workplace . I regret to report that we have not transformed modern work culture...yet! The good news, this Labor Day, is that allBusiness.com , a leading online resource for small business, featured a detailed article...

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Joan Blades

Open Flexible Work

September 2, 2011

Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0 . In the debate over work-life balance, there's one argument we can't seem to move past: Women have made a choice to have kids. Now they have to live with their decision and all of its consequences. But this argument rests on an underlying assumption that, when...

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Joan C. Williams

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

August 23, 2011

Cross-posted from New Deal 2.0 . When Sekiko Garrison told former boss Michael Bloomberg she was pregnant, his answer was simple: "Kill it." Allowing mothers flexible work arrangements, he commented, was like allowing a man time off to practice his golf swing. The CEO who took over when Bloomberg...

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Joan C. Williams