As Washington, D.C., recovers from the worst snowstorm in recorded history — and while my car remains buried in snow — commutes are beginning to return to normal. Most schools were off the entire week of the blizzard, which meant that parents had to either stay home with their kids or find last-minute child-care options. [...]
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Work-Life Balance in a Blizzard
Posted in Women and Work, tagged AAUW, blizzard, caregiving, fem2, Fem2.0, Washington D.C., Women and Work, work-life, Work-Life Balance, work/life, work/life balance on February 25, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Supporting Caregivers for National Family Caregivers Month
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Caregivers, caregiving, More Magazine, More.com, National Family Caregivers Month on November 20, 2009, | 2 Comments »
November is National Family Caregivers Month. In honor of these selfless individuals, I have written a blog for More.com, “Caregivers Deserve Year-Round Applause,” which focuses on the wide range of challenges facing the nation’s estimated 50 million caregivers. I share statistics, talk about AAUW’s policy recommendations, and close with a quote from Rosalyn Carter, who [...]
Prioritizing Caregiving Is a Smart Business Practice
Posted in Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, tagged caregiving, Family Medical Leave Act, Fem 2.0, FMLA, Healthy Families Act on July 13, 2009, | 1 Comment »
I was recently on the Hill lobbying on behalf of the Healthy Families Act (H.R. 2460/S. 1152), and I fielded a question from a congressional staffer who was concerned about placing any sort of additional financial burden on the state and businesses. I have to admit that I was relieved; at least this staffer asked. [...]
Caregiver, Typically a Woman’s Role
Posted in Women and Work, tagged caregiving, cargiver, family caregiver Alliance, Fem 2.0, hospice, Twittercast, woman's role on July 13, 2009, | 9 Comments »
My whole world zeroed in on the doctor’s lips as he asked me if I wanted them to keep my mother on life support or to let her die “a natural death.” It was as if I were watching a movie where the rest of the room blacked out and those lips grew to take [...]
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