Motherhood and Work

Punished for Being Pregnant

Pamela Paul | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

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Pamela Paul

There's a lot governments and corporations and individual bosses need to do to fix this maternal profiling mess. But it's time women (and come on, men, too) started getting angry, loudly, about it.

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Going The Distance

Heather Cabot | Posted 02.06.2008 | Living

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You're Smarter Than You Think

Heather Cabot | Posted 01.30.2008 | Living

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Heather Cabot

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A Peaceful Revolution: Moms Leading on Fair Pay

Nanette Fondas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Motherhood and Work, Single Mothers, Fair Pay Restoration Act, Pay Discrimination, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay, Fair Pay, A Peaceful Revolution, Single Motherhood, Motherhood, Work-Life Balance, Living News
Nanette Fondas

When our granddaughters read their history books, this week may well be one that is marked as the beginning of the end of the pay discrimination many of their foremothers endured.

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Peaceful Revolution: Maternal Profiling: A New York Times Buzzword

Joan Blades | Posted 01.01.2008 | Living

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Joan Blades

The vast majority of workplaces are still structured from the era when it was assumed that there was a wife at home full-time with the children.

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Escape The Cult Of Motherhood

Daily Mail | WINIFRED ROBINSON | Posted 12.14.2007 | Living

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So at last the biggest secret of motherhood is out. For every woman who gives birth then sinks back blissfully into the pillows, there are scores like...

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Working Mom Moments

Risa Green | Posted 11.08.2007 | Living

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Risa Green

For working mothers, there is a similar phenomenon -- a connection that we all have with other, revolving around what we call, simply, "Working Mom Moments."

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More Women Not Seeking Marriage

Mikki Morrissette | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living

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Mikki Morrissette

An article this week reinvigorates the debate about whether it is good or bad that more single women are replacing Mr. Right with a turkey baster in order to "knock themselves up."

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A Peaceful Revolution

Joan Blades | Posted 09.10.2007 | Living

Read More: Bias Against Mothers, Motherhood and Work, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Mothers and Work, A Peaceful Revolution, Living News
Joan Blades

The U.S. is missing basic family supports, which most other countries take as a given -- and the kicker is that countries with family-friendly policies and program in place don't have the wage gaps we do here.

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