All Entries Tagged With: "Mothers Who Work"
Working mom’s sanity secret? Two calendars
Know a working mom who handles the juggle with grace and ease? Tell us about her. In this Q and A we ask Eddie P, a very busy exec with “two great kids” from Maryland, how she handles a high-pressure cooker of a job with grace, ease and a huge smile. MomstoWork: Is there something [...]
Ask For Performance Reviews Before Crying If Laid Off
Laid off? Know someone who has been? Give them this good advice, via a good post on Philly.com about what to ask your employer after you’ve been laid off (and before you storm home in a tearful rage.) One I’d never have thought to ask for: Request copies of your performance reviews. Positive evaluations boost [...]
Michelle Obama on work life balance
Michelle Obama’s speech yesterday on work life balance was so interesting that we’ve posted the entire transcript. It is worth reading. The first lady: Acknowledges one income doesn’t cut it anymore How hard it is for single parents, and that 22 million working women don’t have a single paid sick day. Mayflower Hotel Washington, D.C. [...]
Mom and dad bloggers: Do you protect kids’ anonymity online?
What do other bloggers do to protect the anonymity of their children online? Do you use fake names or nicknames? Or do you use your children’s real names online? It’s hard to blog about being a working mom, or about motherhood, without mentioning those whom we mother and love. Please tell us how you handle [...]
Why You Didn’t Get That Job
Ever arrived at a job interview only to realize that you didn’t really understand what the company and job were about? I have. No matter how qualified you think you are for a job, there are all kinds of reasons that you might not have been chosen, writes Alison Green in an interesting article Why [...]
Look at your man: Is he worth 22 cents more an hour?
3 ways to get equal pay for our daughters Today is Equal Pay Day, designated every April on a Tuesday as a reminder that Tuesday is the day on which women’s wages catch up to men’s wages from the preceding week, says Nancy Folbre, professor of economics. On average, female workers have to put in [...]
Death And Layoffs: What To Say
What do you say to a friend who has lost a job? Not saying anything specific could be kindest. “It’s a lot like death — people don’t know what to say,” Penelope Trunk, chief executive officer of Brazen Careerist, told the New York Times in a great article, full of relevant advice for all of us [...]
Clinton Used To Be Her Boss, Now Kids Rule
How much would you sacrifice for more flexibility? 20% of your salary? More? Dee Dee Myers says flexibility is now the most important quality she has in her work.
Recession: Equality time bomb for working women
Six out of ten women think the recession is an equal opportunity time bomb for working women, just tick, tick, ticking away waiting to explode, finds a new survey by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. What’s happening? During a recession, many women turn lemons into lemonade. Working women see redundancy as an “opportunity to exit corporate life during the recession [...]
3 Important Things About Mothers Who Work
Seeing that it is again late on a Sunday night, I really did like this post over at Authentic Organizations about “Mothers Who Work”. 1: Every mother is a working mother. 2: Every mother is a full-time mother. 3: For families with means, the opportunity for either parent to work at home as a full-time, [...]
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