Monthly Archives: June 2009
Investing in Working Mothers, Investing in Children
I’m lucky that my job has taken me to Chautauqua Institution for the next few days. Chautauqua is a summer learning community that hosts daily lectures from leading minds on a range of topics from science to art to music. This week … Continue reading
The Maternal Manager
Last week a friend who is a female senior healthcare executive in her early sixties told me the following story: one of her employees, a woman in her mid-twenties, came to her and said she wanted to pursue a master’s … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Work
Management Friday: Moving from Manager to Executive
Every Friday I write about a topic of particular interest to working parents who manage people. Want the corner office? You’ll have to figure out how to transition successfully from senior manager to executive — the time in a career … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Work
Dinner Thursday: Coconut Curry Chicken
Coconut milk is a great addition to the pantry, especially the healthier “lite” versions. I love trying new Indian and Asian-style recipes using this rich, easy ingredient, that can be paired with meat, vegetables or rice equally well. Check out … Continue reading
Talking About Womenomics: Katty Kay on The Colbert Report
A few weeks ago I caught this interview with BBC reporter Katty Kay, one of the co-authors of Womenomics, on The Colbert Report. Though it’s one of the fluffier interviews Kay and her partner Claire Shipman have done around the … Continue reading
The Space Between Pro-Choice and Pro-Life
The other day I was catching up on my podcasts, and I caught this interview with Ayelet Waldman on Fresh Air. I usually disagree with Waldman’s style — I think she writes to provoke, and her very privileged stay-at-home-mother life … Continue reading
Are Working Mothers Better Off in Other Countries?
For the past few days I’ve been reading about Iris Evans, the Minister of Finance in Canada’s Alberta province, who announced in a recent talk that at least one parent should stay at home to be with children, even if … Continue reading
Management Friday: Playing Defense
Earlier this week Mindy Roberts at The Mommy Blog responded to my post about a recent “Momversation.” Reading Mindy’s thoughts on the matter, I got defensive. How could she think not see that Momversation misrepresented working mothers? How could she … Continue reading
Filed under Happiness, Management, Work
Dinner Thursday: Franks, Potatoes and Beans
Every Thursday I post a simple, quick recipe for working parents who cook. No matter what I do, I always seem to have a surfeit of potatoes from our CSA box. Any way I can find of making them the … Continue reading
Bringing Baby to Work
When this article about bringing your baby to work came out in The New York Times a few months ago, I was skeptical. Trying to get real work done with a baby — much less a toddler — in your … Continue reading
