Working Mother magazine has compiled a list of the companies its editors consider to be on the forefront of promoting good work-life/parenting balances for its employees. (November 2007) more

Only in Washington. Seriously. Where else would you read an article about people who plan the conception of their children, not around menstrual cycles, but around electoral cycles? more

The New York Times’ Lisa Belkin recently penned a new essay illustrating the mixed messages women receive from those who seek to give them work-life advice: more

Parenting blogger Brian Reid has crafted a list of cringe-worthy things you should avoid saying to working parents and at-home parents if you don’t wish to insult their parenting and their employment choices. more

Former TV journalist Maria Shriver, now the first lady of
California , recently moderated a panel of the wives of the presidential candidates (the sole husband took a pass) to muse on the life of a political spouse. more

The Chicago Tribune recently profiled a former Pepsi executive, Brenda Barnes who, when she left her high-powered post in 1997 felt attacked for deciding to leave her job so she could spend more time with her children. Barnes, now CEO of Sara Lee, told the Tribune, “It was probably the best decision of my life. I’d do it again a million times over.” (October 2007) more

New York Senator Hillary Clinton has thrown a $1 billion federal program proposal “to encourage states to introduce a paid family leave program by 2016” into the presidential campaign fray, according to the Washington Post. “The struggle to balance family and work can be simply overwhelming,”
Clinton said. (October 2007) more

So, we’re not the only ones who’ve had to bring the kids to work in a pinch. “Mothers who are spies, it turns out, face the same juggling act as other working moms.” Thus began the

Washington
Post’s review of Valerie Plame’s memoir, “My Life as a Spy: My Betrayal by the White House.”

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Chicago
Tribune writer Greg Burns said that the American workplace “has become an increasingly hostile environment for raising children, at least from an economic standpoint.” While applauding the innovative, though rare, employers who offer flex-time and other family-friendly policies, Burns wrote:

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Saying that no one could possibly live up to the TV dream moms of the 1950s and 1960s, Jill Hudson Neal wrote in the Washington Post that she’s glad that today’s women have a more realistic array of counterparts populating the small screen, from Dr. Miranda Bailey on “Grey’s Anatomy” and Christine Campbell on “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” to Lynette Scavo on “Desperate Housewives.” “. . . [T]hey’re modern American mothers,” she wrote. more