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Marissa Mayer Edict Reinforces Regressive Work Place Practices

March 12, 2013
This is an e-mail that MomsRising.org received at its member feedback "line": feedback@momsrising.org . So, once again Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer moves a pinky and the 24-hour news hounds start fanning the flames of discord among the working world’s haves and have-nots – pitting parents, non-parents...

There's No Glass Ceiling On Twitter

March 12, 2013
This article originally appeared in Forbes . Searching for the Sheryl Sandbergs of Asia on Twitter. Give me a name and tell me why #top25womenAsia I just had to send that tweet out. For the third time in a month, I had seen a list recommending 25 women to follow on Twitter. For the third time in a...
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Lifting Up not Leaning In is Key to Helping Women Get Ahead

March 12, 2013
What a lot of attention the book Lean In by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has generated. The self-help book, mostly geared towards college-educated women who are or want to be on the executive track, promotes believing in oneself, taking risks and pursing ambitious goals as tactics for personal and...
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Are You a Member of the In Crowd – The “Lean In” Crowd?

March 12, 2013
Have you ever felt dissatisfied in a situation, and thought, “What if? ”...But not like, “What if a giant walrus fell on my boss’s head?" I mean: Goals, dreams, etc. That is what Lean In is about. Below are my Cliff’s Notes . Dissatisfaction spurs change , Sheryl Sandberg states in Lean In. And by...
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5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who "Have It All"

March 12, 2013
This article originally appeared in Fast Company . As the clocks and walls that used to divide work from the other parts of life began to disappear, I started to search for new, modern ways to make what matters happen both on and off the job. For almost two decades, I’ve worked in the trenches with...

Lean In, Chin Up and Tune Out

March 12, 2013
I’ve been thinking a lot about women and our place in society the last couple of weeks. This is appropriate, as it is Women’s History Month and was kicked off at PBS with “ Makers ,” a three-hour documentary on the “second-wave” women’s movement.I sat down to watch it last weekend and was...
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Caregiving in the Face of Hostility

March 12, 2013
Photo: I am holding my son, then a baby, at my parents’ home in New Hampshire in 2004. At the time, my parents, grandparents and youngest sibling lived in the same three-bedroom townhouse. Growing up, I always lived with extended family or family members stayed with us for extended periods of time...
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In Hollywood, The Numbers of Women Matter

March 12, 2013
I’ve been working in the movie industry many years and often I am the sole female on a crew of men. I have worked in visual effects, editing rooms and on production sets. The number of women on these crews is significantly less than the numbers of men. It’s not surprising that the majority of...

New Moms Can Lean In Too: Take Your Infant to Work

March 12, 2013
The volcanic national debate about women, work, and family erupts weekly these days, with Sheryl Sandberg’s much-anticipated book, Lean In, published yesterday, the news last week that Best Buy ended its flexible work-from-home ROWE initiative, and Marissa Mayer’s ban on remote working at Yahoo!...
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As Women, We Are Our Own Best Source of Inspiration

March 12, 2013
For many of us moms, success is too often defined and driven by outside factors and interpretations of what and how we "should" do things. I just finished Sheryl Sandberg's book which came out today and I think she perpetuates this view. She talks about leaning into a career by reaching for...
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