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Certain Careers ‘Require’ an At-Home Spouse?
The Wall Street Journal work-life blog The Juggle asked its readers if there are certain high-powered careers which “unofficially require” that one’s spouse have no job in order to take care of all things family-related. more
How Executive Moms Do It.
Of the dozen female executives running Fortune 500 companies, the Wall Street Journal reported that all but one of them have children. more
UCal-Irvine Study: Working Moms Not Hurting Kids.
After reviewing five decades of studies, researchers from the University of California, Irvine have found that, “Children whose mothers return to work before their offspring turn 3 are no more likely to have academic or behavioral problems than kids whose mothers stay at home,” more
Poll: Teens Need to Stop Oversharing Online.
A Zogby Common Sense Media poll found that both teens and parents agree that teens give away too much private information. more
More Women Childless, by Design.
A growing number of women are deciding to take a pass on childrearing, The Chicago Sun-Times reported, citing U.S. census numbers. more
Author: Stop Trying to Make Kids Happy All the Time, It’s Not Good for Them.
If we stop trying to cater to our children, our children will be better off, asserted psychologist and author Richard Weissbourd in his book, The Parents We mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development, the Washington Post reported. more
Gov’t Report: Pay Gap for Mom Managers.
While noting that women are closing the pay gap with men, the Government Accountability Office found in a recent study that the difference in pay is wider when those women are mothers, the New York Times said. more
‘Weary Working Women’ Called Pivotal to Fall Elections.
Could women who are balancing family and work burdens be pivotal to this fall’s election results? Yes, says NPR. more
Few Women on Wall Street, WSJ Reports.
By announcing that, “Women are fading from the U.S. finance industry,” Kyle Stock wrote in the Wall Street Journal that women have been shying away from financial sector jobs, despite the fact that “the number of women in the U.S. labor market has grown by 4.1 percent in the past decade,” by a higher rate than men. more
Not Many Women on Forbes’ ‘Richest People’ List.
Writing for Slate’s XX Factor, Helaine Olen said the fact that only 89 women, as compared to 922 men, made the Forbes’ list of richest people is cause for concern and an indication of a “lack of female power.” more
