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First Person Friday: A Working Mother’s Working Mother
Today’s First Person Friday comes to us from The Mama Bee’s mama: Grandma Bee. She doesn’t have a blog (yet), but from time to time she comments and contributes here at TMB. Reading The Mama Bee, I sometimes wonder whether … Continue reading
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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 Caregiver’s Worth Revisited
A few weeks ago I posted on “A Caregiver’s Worth.” Over the holidays, I received this response from reporter Ruth Mantell, who I quoted, clarifying her position. She writes: I want to clarify a point you made while discussing a column I … Continue reading
A Caregiver’s Worth
Last week Ruth Mantell at The Wall Street Journal‘s Marketwatch posted this ill-titled piece “Calculating the Value of Women’s Work.” I say ill-titled because what the article discusses is not “women’s work” per se, but rather work that has traditionally … Continue reading
Going Green for Working Families
Last week in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote an interesting critique of some of the latest eco-living books including No-Impact Man, Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet, and Sleeping Naked is Green, all of which set artificial … Continue reading
Snack Friday: Healthy Muffins
The weather on the East coast this summer has been abysmal. On weekday evenings and weekend days when we would normally go to the playground, Baby Bee and I have been cooped up at home. We’ve read a lot of … Continue reading
Sounding Off on Jack Welch
I couldn’t let another day go by without talking about Jack Welch’s comments on “work-life balance” at the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Conference. As reported by The Juggle at The Wall Street Journal, Welch said: “There’s no such thing as … Continue reading
The Right Compromises
Yesterday my post rejected the idea that mothers should “shoot for the middle” to cope with work-life pressure. While I don’t agree that we should aspire to mediocrity, I do recognize that mothers who work full-time must negotiate compromises both … Continue reading
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Is Your Nanny “Like Family?”
The New York Times had an interesting piece about Tasha Blaine’s new book Just Like Family: Inside the Life of Nannies, the Parents They Work for, and the Children They Love, which chronicles the personal and work lives of three … Continue reading
