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 »
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 [...]
An Insult to Hardworking Career Mothers
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged career, gender equity, Motherhood Penalty, research, wage gap, Women and Work, work/life balance, working mothers, workplace discrimination on June 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
To me the most striking finding from a recent work-family research report that’s getting a lot of online buzz was that the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers is even more pronounced than the wage gap between women and men. Even though I decided early on that I didn’t want to have kids, that doesn’t [...]
The Importance of Female Mentors
Posted in Equity in the News, NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged career, Fellowships and Grants, math, mentor, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, role models, science, STEM, Women and Work, Women of Distinction on June 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Common among the former fellows I’ve interviewed is that having a mentor and being a mentor play important roles in these women’s lives. This message was reiterated in the speech given by Anucha Browne Sanders during the AAUW Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the recent National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Sanders said, [...]
It’s the Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, but I’m Not Quite Ready to Celebrate
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, college grads, Equal Pay Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, wage gap, Women and Work on June 9, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Forty-six years later, as I prepare to graduate from college and enter the workforce, there are so many career options and opportunities at my fingertips that a woman in 1963 would not have had access to. I take the wide breadth of [...]
The Shoulders of Giants
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African Ameriican, Alice Phinney, engineering, mentor, minority engineers, Peggy Olorunsola, Women and Work on March 27, 2009, | 2 Comments »
They say that behind every successful man is a woman. I think it’s also fair to say that behind every successful woman is a woman — or, more likely, many women. Women’s History Month is a good time to think about the women who have helped us get where we are today — our mothers, [...]
The Recession in Focus: My Story
Posted in Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, tagged current events, economy, layoffs, pay equity, recession, retirement security, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work on March 24, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Okay, maybe I don’t live in Michigan or Rhode Island, the two states with the worst unemployment rates, but the recession has definitely hit home. According to the New York Times, men accounted for 82 percent of those who lost their jobs, leaving more women as the sole family breadwinner. Men are more likely to [...]
Meet Felicia Battle: Information Security Officer
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Career Development Grants, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, higher education, technology, Women and Work, work/life balance on December 29, 2008, | 4 Comments »
This year, Felicia Battle, a 2007–08 Career Development Grantee, returned to school after six years, earning a master’s degree with a 4.0 GPA and simultaneously changing careers to work in corporate information security. After six months as a database analyst, Felicia was promoted to database security engineer at Wachovia Bank. The master’s of information systems [...]
Workplace Rules for Success
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, gender pay gap, Pay Negotiation, salary negotiation, wage gap, Women and Work, workforce on September 2, 2008, | 1 Comment »
Hannah Seligson’s New York Times article “Girl Power at School, but Not at the Office” looks at how women are excelling more than ever in school, but they tend to face a rough transition into the workplace compared with their male peers. I am a year younger than Seligson and similarly excelled at school, where [...]
Feed Me
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged cooking, culture, family, food, Women and Work on July 24, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
What’s that saying? Men are chefs, women cook? I’ve seen a lot of stuff in that vein this week, and I couldn’t resist throwing it all together in a big pot of delicious blog stew. Let’s start with this hilarious article from the Daily Mail. According to the article, manly men Gordon Ramsay and Jamie [...]
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