Category Archives: Happiness
The MamaBA
I started writing this post last October — with an apology for being away for more than a month. Already I had heard from my online friends and community asking if I was okay. I never answered because I kept … Continue reading
Cutting Back at Work or at Home?
One of the things I’ve been thinking about since I started blogging on the politics of working motherhood is this male/female divide: when women feel overwhelmed by the demands of parenting and work, their solution is to look to the … Continue reading
A Wrecking Ball for the House of Work
I’ve been lucky to be a part of some interesting conversations this week on the nature of work, and how it might better serve the needs of women and parents in general. Commenting on Christine Livingstone’s great post on job … Continue reading
Filed under Happiness, Politics, Working Mom Blogs
The Happiness Opportunity
For the past couple of weeks I’ve had a taste of the stay-at-home mother life. We gave our sitter/housekeeper days off between Christmas Eve and New Years, and I stayed home to take care of Baby Bee during the school … Continue reading
Grad School At What Cost?
Recently I’ve been considering going to graduate school. Going through the application process, I’ve been struck by how impossible graduate education must seem to many qualified people, especially if you are a parent. Putting aside the logistics of actually studying … Continue reading
Filed under Happiness, Management, News, School
Too Many Choices, Too Few Opportunities
There is an incredible passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar about choice. The novel’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is thinking about her future: I saw my life branching out before me like a…fig tree…From the tip of every branch, like … Continue reading
When Will Things Finally Change?
Last night I was on a terrific panel about different kinds of work choices along with a career coach and a “mompreneuer.” I represented the full-time working mom perspective. The group asked interesting questions, many driven by personal experience, but … Continue reading
Working for More Than Money
In a recent post over at Double X, Linda Hirshman heralds a new era of working women. She points out that because of the recession and some very public examples of men failing their stay-at-home wives, women are now re-entering … Continue reading
Can Opting Out Be a Feminist Choice?
Last Friday The New York Times ran an article titled “Recession Drives Women Back to Workforce,” profiling several long-time stay at home mothers, all highly educated former professionals, who were re-entering the job market for financial reasons. The comments, many … Continue reading
More Working Mothers = Better Birthrates?
Last week two interesting articles about working mothers in Germany turned up in the London Times and the Globe & Mail. The pieces pointed out that Germany — for all of the benefits it offers families — is a difficult … Continue reading
