Category Archives: News
The Media is Failing Us
Despite that over 70% of mothers work, it’s funny that there’s very little media created specifically for us. In fact, there are exponentially more publications that tell you how to make the best cupcake or decorate the ideal nursery or … Continue reading
Filed under News, Politics, Working Mom Blogs
Legislating Worklife
Perhaps it’s unwise to admit this given that I’m participating in a Room of Your Own panel at Blogher called “Screw Worklife Balance, We Need Worklife POLICY!”, but I’m ambivalent about worklife policy. Get your flames ready. Wearing my manager … Continue reading
Why is Women’s Progress Plateauing?
Just before Mother’s Day Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation, wrote an op-ed in The Nation: The Gender Equity Bubble Goes Pop!. Lerner argues that a profound lack of support services … Continue reading
Flexibility at What Cost?
A couple of weeks ago a CEO named Maynard Webb extolled the virtues of life as an independent contractor in The Huffington Post. He wrote compellingly about the need for a new model of flexible work, saying that: There is … Continue reading
Filed under Management, News, Work
Getting Honest About Part-time Work
Laura Vanderkam posted a very interesting take on part-time work in USA Today this week. She points out that while a much-touted Pew study suggests a majority of mothers would prefer to work part-time, the numbers tell us that part-time … Continue reading
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
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
