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‘Without a Trace,’ Plus Baby
Writers and producers of the TV drama “Without a Trace” have decided to write actress Poppy Montgomery’s real-life pregnancy into her FBI agent’s storyline. “I never thought it was going to be written in, and when they told me, I thought it was so cool,”. more
Survey: Moms Say They’d Love Work Flexibility
An online survey of 700 working moms commissioned by the consulting firm Accenture, found that the vast majority of respondents wanted to have paid work in some capacity and wished their workplaces offered more flexibility. Only 11 percent said they wished they didn’t have to have paid employment. “. . . [W]hile 37 percent say their companies offer telecommuting as a work option, that program (at 50 percent) tops the wish list of respondents to whom it’s not offered,” an Accenture press release said. more
Breastfeeding Med Student Denied Extra Time During Licensing Exam
A Massachusetts judge this week ruled against the mom of a 4-month-old who’d asked the court to compel the National Board of Medical Examiners to allot her extra time during her 9-hour medical licensing test so she could pump her breastmilk. more
NY’s Breastfeeding Moms Protected by New Law
The New York Employment Lawyer Blog reports that in the Empire State, breastfeeding moms now have legal protection from discrimination at work because a new law mandates that, “employers have to give mothers time and space at work to nurse or feed their infants for three years after child birth. more
Who Takes Care of Sick Kids?
The Wall Street Journal’s Sue Shellenbarger explored the thorny issue of what to do when a child is sick and both Mom and Dad have to go to work.
“John and Valerie Farwell rarely argue,” Shellenbarger wrote. “But one topic can send them into a sinkhole of strife: Who stays home when their child gets sick?”
The Latest Front in the “Wars” Over Motherhood: Childless vs Breeders
Perhaps the media have grown tired of fanning flames of discord between working moms and at-home moms, given the protests from both groups that they’ve had enough of the faux “mommy wars.” So, could pitting working moms against childless women be the media’s new, terribly unfortunate, pat storyline? Apparently, the answer is yes, at least in
Selling the Notion of Breadwinner Wife, At-Home Husband Difficult.
“Being a breadwinner wife is like becoming invisible,” M.P. Dunleavey wrote in the New York Times. “I’ve reached this conclusion after supporting my family financially for nearly a year. more
New ‘Smotherhood’ Book Urges Working Moms to Laugh More.
MSNBC has posted an excerpt from the new book “Smotherhood,” by a North Carolina TV reporter Amanda Lamb, who urges working moms to lighten up and laugh. more
Challenging the Pew Research Center on Working Moms.
Time Magazine blogger Lisa Takeuchi Cullen wants to know why the
Pew Research Center more
Women Who Ask for More Money Seen as ‘Less Nice.’
A Carnegie Mellon University/Harvard Kennedy School of Government study found that women who negotiate for more money at work are considered “less nice.” “. . . [M]en tended to rule against women who negotiated but were more accepting of men who sought more,” according to Business Week’s Working Parents blog. “Women, however, penalized both men and women who did not accept what they were offered.” (September 2007) more
