Category Archives: Work
A Tropical Island
The other day a male acquaintance from my MBA program, a soon-to-be father, said that he’d had enough of working in finance in the big city. He was rethinking his goals, looking to work like a dog over the next … Continue reading
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It’s Lonely in the Middle
As I’m winding down my MBA experience, I’m taking a management class to prepare for what I hope will be a big career transition over the next few years. The course launched this weekend with a case about a manager … Continue reading
Filed under Management, Politics, School, Work
It’s the Small Stuff That’s Going to Bring About the Revolution
Last week I was at BlogHer, and it was great — great to meet so many amazing bloggers in person, and great to feel like feminism and activism are alive and well. The closing keynote was nominally about using your … Continue reading
Why Women May Not Advance – Even Without Sexism
The Wall Street Journal’s “The Juggle” blog recently reported that benefits like paid maternity leave, comprehensive healthcare, tuition reimbursement and flex-time are on the decline according to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). I’m not surprised. … Continue reading
Advocating Wisely
Last week Melissa at Momocrats responded thoughtfully to my recent post expressing ambivalence about legislation around flextime saying: I wonder how we can continue without government intervention. I’ve no doubt that MamaBee is a terrific manager but…she is one manager. … Continue reading
Nurturing Women in Science and Math
The Wandering Scientist, one of my favorite working mom bloggers, brought my attention to John Tierney’s recent New York Times op-ed, Daring to Discuss Women in Science. The piece is nominally about new legislation being introduced to increase the number … Continue reading
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
