Monthly Archives: April 2010
Women and Business Reporting: Separate But Unequal
Earlier today an article came across my twitter feed from ForbesWoman titled “Worst Words to Say at Work: These nine words and phrases will make you sound noncommittal, undependable and untrustworthy“. The article didn’t specifically mention women anywhere, so I’m … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Politics
Embracing My Inner Self-Aggrandizing Jerk
Over the weekend Jon Prial at Balanced Bits drew my attention to a terrific report by NPR’s On The Media, tweeting “Knew it was MamaBee fodder as soon as I heard it.” The piece was nominally about women in media … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Work
Workplace Prioritizing: What is “Urgent?”
A few of my favorite #worklife bloggers (Judy Martin, Chrysula Winegar, Leanne Chase, Cali Yost) have been engaging in a conversation about the value of slowing down, finding serenity, and insisting on quality of life in the workplace. For me, … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Work
The Cost of Suspicion
The other day a friend of mine who is on maternity leave mentioned that her large company asked that she sign a document indicating that she would give back her six weeks of parental leave pay if she left the … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Work
Breatfeeding Round-Up
Yesterday I responded to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that the costs of pumping milk in the workplace weren’t worth the benefits to mother and child. Turns out that a similar conversation on this topic is … Continue reading
Filed under Breastfeeding and Pumping, News
The Costs of Pumping
Every so often newspaper and magazine execs must think to themselves “How can we drive more traffic to our website? How can we get those mommy-bloggers everyone is talking about to pick us up? We know! Let’s write about breastfeeding … Continue reading
Filed under Breastfeeding and Pumping, Health, News
