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    Straight Talk about Motherhood and Work

    Posted August 23rd, 2010 by Linda Tarr-Whelan

    Recently I was asked a terrific question by an Australian (and soon to be an American) woman at a training for women bloggers thinking about running for office. BlogHer and the White House Project had put together a great program. I talked about my experience in international work as an Ambassador which gave me a [...]

    Massachusetts Maternity Leave Ruling Leaves Moms Cold

    Posted August 18th, 2010 by Amie Newman

    According to Salon’s Broadsheet, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled last week that the state’s maternity leave act (MMLA) should stand, leaving mothers who work for a company with less than fifty employees with only two months of unpaid leave after the birth of a baby. The other moms? They’re either left with a sum total [...]

    What Should Society Do For Parents?

    Posted August 9th, 2010 by Valerie Young

    From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog  MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org Let’s face facts: raising children costs money, and lots of it. Parenthood has economic consequences, and they extend far beyond the family home. If women decide having children is too perilous an undertaking, and fewer children are born, our nation will suffer. Public policy, or [...]

    Sorry I Missed Your Anniversary! Thanks for Keeping Families Afloat.

    Posted August 4th, 2010 by Joan C. Williams

    This July marked the sixth anniversary of the nation’s first state law that provides comprehensive paid family leave. Passed in 2002 and in effect since July 2004, California’s paid family leave insurance program provides most workers with six weeks a year of partial pay (55% of wages up to a weekly max — $987 per [...]

    Screw Work Life Balance: We Need Work Life Policy! Join the Movement at BlogHer

    Posted August 2nd, 2010 by Morra Aarons-Mele

    For over two years, The Four Hour Work Week has been a national bestseller. Why? Because most of us resent feeling tethered to our jobs, and we know we could still do great work even if we had the ability to control our schedules and factor family needs into our day. But workers are completely [...]

    The White House Talks, Is Congress Listening?

    Posted July 28th, 2010 by Melissa Schober

    This year the White House, in cooperation with the Council on Women and Girls, hosted a conference on Workplace Flexibility. The conference came on the heels of a report by the Council of Economic Advisors on the benefits to employers of offering paid leave and flextime, official guidance on caregiving discrimination by the EEOC, and [...]

    Paid Leave Makes Horse Sense

    Posted July 28th, 2010 by Jodie Levin-Epstein

    Vacations are good for your health.   And, you don’t need to get away to any fancy Caribbean retreat to get the benefit of time-off from work.  But it helps if you are a horse.  In New York City, that is. The City’s Health Department has proposed new rules for those horses hitched to carriages that [...]

    Work-life balance: Finding the Swede spot

    Posted July 27th, 2010 by Katrina Alcorn

    A quiet revolution has been taking place in Sweden for 15 years, affecting everything from the gender pay gap to workplace culture to relationships between parents and children. It all started at home. Here’s a link to the fascinating New York Times story about this phenomenon. Now here’s my distilled version—with original illustrations! This Swedish [...]

    Dutch Study Pumps Breastfeeding, Support Still Lacking

    Posted July 21st, 2010 by Amie Newman

    I write, occasionally, about breastfeeding and bottlefeeding. I try, when I do, to present a balanced approach. It is challenging at times – to reconcile the choices I’ve made personally with my own children, with evidence-based studies and information that seems to come out regularly pointing to the overwhelming health benefits of exclusive breastfeeding; with [...]

    Who clips the nails? Survey results are in!

    Posted July 19th, 2010 by Katrina Alcorn

    Thanks to everyone who took my “Who clips the nails?” survey. The results are in! Below is a summary. I’m posting the detailed results, comments, and analysis now and throughout the week on my blog: workingmomsbreak.com. Overview Even though studies show fathers are changing more diapers and folding more laundry than ever, mothers are still [...]

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