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May 11, 2011

Cross-Posted from The Hot Mommas Project Blog A few weeks ago I spoke on a panel at the Feminist Majority’s Women, Power & Money Summit held in partnership with the YWCA. My job was to represent the "business side" of things. Aside from selling Amway when I was 11, or picking Baby Bell stocks...

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Kathy Korman Frey

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

May 10, 2011

By Vicki Shabo, Director of Work and Family Programs, National Partnership for Women & Families Mother’s Day. It’s a day when we shower the mothers in our lives with well-deserved compliments and gifts that show our appreciation. The heartfelt thanks, expressed in cards, flowers and chocolates...

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Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work Realistic & Fair Wages

May 6, 2011

In time for Mother's Day, the Institute for Women's Policy Research, a leading think tank in the U.S. focusing primarily on domestic women’s issues, released a compilation of recent IWPR research findings that illustrate the current status of women, especially mothers, in the U.S. When IWPR posted...

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Clark Jennifer

Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

May 4, 2011

Crossposted from WorkingMother.com One of the most important things a workplace can do to support working mothers and mothers-to-be is to provide for flexibility. In my last few blogs for WorkingMother.com I’ve mentioned the difficulties I’ve faced while working full-time and being pregnant. Early...

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Michelle Noehren

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

May 2, 2011

I just put together a very simple survey about working parents and stress. It takes only 3 minutes to complete. If you're a parent and you work to help support your family, here's what I'd like you to do: 1. Take the survey . 2. Share the survey (or this post) with everyone you know. 3. Come back...

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Katrina Alcorn

Open Flexible Work

April 27, 2011

by Caroline Dobuzinskis In political debates and media reports, the dialog on Social Security has recently focused on budget numbers. The program is often mistakenly tied to the deficit despite the fact that by law it cannot borrow money to pay for benefits and thus cannot contribute to the deficit...

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Caroline Dobuzinskis

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April 23, 2011

Hi all, I have another live blog chat scheduled on my blog, MotherTalkers.com , for this Thursday, April 28 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m ET. This time, we will be chatting with Stacy Mason, campaign manager of The 2012 Project , a national and non-partisan campaign by Rutgers University to get more women to...

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Elisa Batista

Open Flexible Work

April 19, 2011

You’re stuck in your career. Don’t blame work-life issues. You need a sponsor. Feeling stuck? As you’re assessing the reasons why you aren’t moving ahead, don’t blame lack of work-life balance. According to the human resource consulting firm Mercer, the number one reason why women don’t move ahead...

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Joanne Cleaver

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April 8, 2011

Posted on behalf of Johnson Storage & Moving employee Barbara Collins. In 1986 my husband’s company ceased operations in Texas after 20 years and we decided that raising our preteen and teenager in Colorado was the best move for our family. Being 40 was a rough time to change careers but we both found the perfect fit. He works for a small Engineering firm and I joined the Johnson Storage & Moving company. For 18 years I worked in the office and envisioned this being the job I would retire from. Then in 2004 I was offered the opportunity to join the team that worked at home. I balked, as my manager can attest, thinking I was being put out to pasture. I had doubts about what I was doing and more so what I would be doing. Was this the way for them to test me and slowly ease me out? Then I got a call from another member of our team who had already transitioned to working at home and had suffered through many of the same fears. She told me what a difference it made for her and to her life and to be open minded and try it. This was the best thing that has happened for me and my husband since I started working.

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Lori Tubaya

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

March 30, 2011

What if we just stopped having babies? You know, like an ANTI-labor labor movement. This may sound like a silly, made up argument, but right now, women in their childbearing years are "on strike" in something like than 90 countries in Europe and Asia and it's creating serious problems.

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Katrina Alcorn