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What I Want for (Working) Mother's Day

Jennifer Owens | Posted 05.10.2013 | Parents
Read More: Flexible Schedule, Massage, Paid Leave, Sheryl Sandberg, Working Mothers, Mother's Day, Flex Time, Marissa Mayer, Flexibility, Working Moms, Parents News
Jennifer Owens

While these Working Mother's Day "gifts" may take effort, I'm no longer willing to wait for them. I do not want to have wish these gifts for my daughter; I want them now.

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Creating Company Culture That Cares About Caregivers

Sherri Snelling | Posted 04.08.2013 | Fifty
Read More: Mad Men, Caregiving, Employees, Workplace, Employers, Flex-Time, Caregiver, Alzheimer's, Caregiving Stress, Work-Life Balance, Sandwich Generation, Fifty News
Sherri Snelling

As America tunes in for another season of TV's "Mad Men," I thought about the workplace changes being played out on the series. If Matt Weiner could flash forward to today's work environment, I hope he'd show the biggest issue facing America's workers today: caregiving.

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Lean In? No thanks. I'd Rather Lean On.

Kim Siegal | Posted 05.15.2013 | Women
Read More: Affordable Child Care, Lean In, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Career, Sheryl Sandberg, Maternity Leave, Feminism, Flex Time, Women News
Kim Siegal

So, if we are going to create a rallying cry or even just a catch phrase around modern woman work/family empowerment, I would vote for "lean on" instead of "lean in."

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Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer: 'Lean In' and Get Your Butt to the Office!

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 04.29.2013 | Women
Read More: Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg, Working Mothers, Marissa Mayer, Flex-Time, Yahoo!, Working Families, Facebook, Yahoo, Mom Guilt, Women News
Joanne Bamberger

They may mean well, but the ways they are going about these two goals will only take us back to the time when we had to sneak out of the office to get home for dinner (oh, wait, Sandberg admits she did that) and increase the mom guilt I thought we'd all agreed wasn't good for anybody.

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Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing

Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.29.2013 | Women
Read More: Makers, Vawa, Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, Nancy Pelosi, Flex-Time, The Custom-Fit Workplace, Having It All, Telework, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Gwen Moore, Feminism, Yahoo, Privilege, Women News
Christine Pelosi

In order to get to that leadership table in Congress or the C suite, women cannot be marginalized, either directly by work policies that exclude their employment or by "having it all" media debates so rarified that they exclude their participation.

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The Harsh Reality Of Flexible Work Schedules

Emily Peck | Posted 12.18.2012 | Small Business
Read More: Binders Full of Women, Presidential Debates, Lilly Ledbetter Act, Flex Time, Mitt Romney, Obama, Small Business News
Emily Peck

Guys, workplace flexibility isn't just a chick thing and until everyone gets on the same page about that, using so-called flex-time could actually do ...

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Make Your Own Damn Dinner, Mitt

Sheila Quirke | Posted 12.17.2012 | Parents
Read More: Flex-Time, Working Women, Binders of Women, Mitt Romney Debate, Election 2012, Presidential Election, Mitt Romney, Presidential Election 2012, Parents News
Sheila Quirke

Do men go hungry, waiting for their working women to tend to their most basic of human needs?

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