Tag Archives: working mothers
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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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
First Person Friday: Working and Making it Work with Four Kids
Last week I started a new weekly “feature” giving working mothers a platform to tell their stories. I’ve written before about the invisible working mother phenomenon, and I hope this forum offers community and inspiration for those of us who … Continue reading
Filed under First Person Friday, Working Mom Blogs
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
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
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
