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 »
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 [...]
The Digital Ceiling
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged blogher, Digial Ceiling, Fem2.0, GEMS, glass ceiling, national girls, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, technonogy, TeleSummit, Women Who Tech on May 13, 2009, | 2 Comments »
When your computer breaks, they first thing you do is go call the tech guys, right? As one of the women in tech out there, I am getting tired of the sexist stereotypes about the gender of technology professionals. We are not all male! While there have been notable women in technology from the beginning, [...]
Fem2.0 and the Fight for Pay Equity
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Fem2.0, feminism, Linda Hallman, pay equity, pay gap on November 19, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Lecia introduced us to Feminism2.0, a website that brings together the leadership of major women’s advocacy organizations and online women’s communities. In a recent post there, AAUW Executive Director Linda Hallman addresses the economy and the pay gap: “As the elections highlighted, the economy continues to top the list of issues that women, [...]
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