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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 »
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, [...]
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 [...]
Workplace Rules in the House of Medicine: A Difficult Choice When Health Is at Stake
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, tagged A Woman's Nation, Family Friendly for All Families, Health-care, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, women in the workplace, work-life, work/life on February 2, 2010, | 3 Comments »
More on the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation (www.awomansnation.com) The focus of the chapter “Family Friendly for All Families” dispels an important myth: that having the same rules that men have is enough to successfully bring women into the workplace. Women have different needs, different schedules, and different priorities than men do, so “what is [...]
Equity Issues in the News: January 25 – 29
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Dialog, Catherine Hill, Equity Issues, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Linda Hallman, Lisa Maatz, media, National Girls Collaborative Project, news, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, PBS Newshour, research, Shorty Awards, SOTU, State of the Union, The Secrets of Powerful Women, Twitter, USA Today, wage discrimination, Where the Girls Are, work-life on February 1, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
January 25-29 AAUW Marks One-Year Anniversary of Ledbetter Law with Call for Action The Huffington Post (Friday, Jan. 29) AAUW Executive Director, Linda D. Hallman, CAE, and pay equity activist, Lilly Ledbetter, called for support of the Paycheck Fairness Act in an op-ed that said: “A year ago today, on January 29, 2009, a new [...]
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