Monthly Archives: September 2009

What a week for work life discussion

By ksakai | Published: September 29, 2009
Last week, Families and Work Institute released a new report, State of Health in the American Workforce. The report presents findings by wage level and gender and finds that effective workplaces contribute to positive health, but the overall trend in health of employed American workers is going downward in a number of important areas.  Bloggers [...]
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Women, Men, and Happiness

By Ellen Galinsky and Morra Aarons Mele | Published: September 23, 2009
On the Huffington Post, Marcus Buckingham dropped two pieces of disheartening news: “a) women are less happy than they were 40 years ago, compared with men, and b) as women get older, they get sadder.” Using data over time from the General Social Survey as well as five other international studies, the study Buckingham cites, [...]
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Wellness: It’s everyone’s responsibility

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: September 22, 2009
Cross posted from the Huffington Post: No matter what your position is on the health care debate, almost everyone seems to agree that the path we are on is an untenable route to increasing costs and diminishing returns. New data show American workers are getting less healthy each year, and this obviously will increase health care [...]
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It’s National Work and Family Month

By Morra | Published: September 21, 2009
Well, starting October 1 it is! This year, employees are encouraged to strike a balance by talking to their managers about a flexible work arrangement. Use October as a time to try telework, condense a workweek, join a wellness program or organize a workplace volunteer activity. Check out Corporate Voices for Working Families‘ post linking to a [...]
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More Women Supporting Families

By ksakai | Published: September 12, 2009
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has an interesting article about the difficult role shift many couples encounter when the wife becomes breadwinner. One couple notes, “It’s kind of difficult because the roles have switched,” Germain Patterson concedes. “It’s really hard because everyone is looking at you as the provider.” Adds Tina Patterson: “Everything falls on my [...]
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Work and Family: Do we need a bigger tent?

By Morra | Published: September 10, 2009
Today, I was part of a thought-provoking online conversation about the relationship between working and raising a family in this country. The bad news is, no one seems to be happy about it. The good news is, we have an army of parents who are online activists and bloggers who are ready to team up [...]
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Labor Day blogging

By Morra | Published: September 7, 2009
Workplace Fairness is blogging its 2009 report, “Change has Come to the Workplace.”They review the past year, from the Lilly Ledbetter Act, to the coming year, with Health Care Reform on the horizon. Seth Godin writes about working hard versus working long. Most of us think we work hard- but maybe we just work long…Seth writes, [...]
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Mind in the Making: an 8 month old learns to crawl

By Morra | Published: September 4, 2009
Joseph Campos from UC Berkeley has illustrated how babies use and interpret adult feedback when determining whether to take on new challenges. Yes, that’s right. Anyone who doesn’t believe that infants don’t deliberately take on challenges has not seen my eight month old try to crawl. Night and day, he’s up on all fours, practicing, practicing. [...]
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Phoebe Taubman from A Better Balance

By Morra | Published: September 1, 2009
I interviewed Phoebe Taubman, who is an Equal Justice Works Fellow and project attorney at A Better Balance, a New York City based non profit organization. A Better Balance is “helping to draft government legislation and influence corporate change on policies such as paid sick leave, paid family leave, and more flexible workplaces. A paid-sick-leave [...]
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