Women now make up half of the U.S. workforce, yet policies such as flexible scheduling that help women juggle work-life responsibilities are not prioritized by our lawmakers. This is a problem when more and more women not only have caregiving responsibilities but also serve as primary breadwinners. As part of the Fem2.0 work-life blog carnival, [...]
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Work-Life Balance: More Than a Philosophy
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, blog carnival, Equal Pay, fem2, Fem2.0, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, More Magazine, More.com, paid sick leave, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, work-life, work/life, work/life balance on March 18, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Rock the Red Pump for HIV/AIDS Awareness
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #redpump, AAUW, AAUW Dialog, Act Against Aids, blog, blogging, Comprehensive Sex education, fem2, HIV/AIDS, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Red Pump Project, red pumps, Rock the Red Pump, sex education, Twitter, women of color on March 10, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 10, marks the fourth annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The day calls for people to get informed, get tested, and take action. One idea for getting involved was started last year by bloggers The Fabulous Giver and Awesomely Luuvie. They recruited more than 100 bloggers to begin a conversation about [...]
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 »
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. [...]
Underneath Work-Life Balance
Posted in Women and Work, tagged fem2, Fem2.0, Mary Gayle Griffin, Neal Chalofsky, Paul Weddle, Paula Caligiuri, Steven Poelmans, The Huffington Post, Women and Work, work-life, work/life, work/life balance on February 23, 2010, | 2 Comments »
I was reading a column recently by human resources consultant and author, Peter Weddle that struck a chord. In “Rethinking Work-Life Balance” on the ISTE website, Weddle suggests that the term “work-life balance” implies that work is a negative activity that has no personal value other than a paycheck that is almost always less than [...]
1,000 Wins
Posted in Title IX, tagged basketball, Fem 2.0, fem2, female coaches, sports, Title IX, women in sports on February 4, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! Did you know that when Congress enacted Title IX only one in 27 girls in high school participated in athletics and now it’s one in three? What a change! To celebrate, today girls all over the country will wear a t-shirt or jersey that promotes the sports [...]
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