Monthly Archives: October 2009

Job Sharing: Two moms, one car, great flexibility

By Morra | Published: October 26, 2009
In 2008, 2008, Families and Work Institute found that of 1,100 companies surveyed nationwide, 31 percent offered job sharing. If you’re thinking about job sharing, getting the details right seems to be a big part of the battle. A few weeks ago we wrote about two magazine sales’ executives job sharing scheme. This weekend,  the St. [...]
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FWI on Health: Declining Workplace Health and What to Do

By FWInews | Published: October 22, 2009
Ellen Galinsky was interviewed for a piece on CNN/Health.com where she discusses the latest FWI findings that show “one in three workers has at least one symptom of clinical depression; 41 percent say they feel stressed sometimes, often, or very often; and one in five has trouble falling asleep often or very often. In all, [...]
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“A Woman’s Nation” Demands Workplace Flexibility

By FWInews | Published: October 21, 2009
Chai Feldblum and Katie Corrigan wrote an excellent piece that spurs off the attention being given the Shriver Report, “A Woman’s Nation”: The Shriver Report’s release is coinciding with National Work & Family Month – presenting us with an opportunity to look more critically at how workforce trends impact our personal and family lives. The Shriver [...]
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Live blogging the Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation

By Morra | Published: October 19, 2009
Maria Shriver, working with the Center for American Progress, release the Shriver Report, subtitled, “A Woman’s Nation.” I participated in a conference call with Shriver and John Podesta, head of the Center for American Progress. The report stems from the finding that women are now, as Gloria Steinem put it, “Now that women are half of [...]
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Ellen on CBS Evening News tonight (10/16)

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: October 16, 2009
I have been interviewed for a piece that will air tonight on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric (Friday, October 16th from 6:30 to 7:00 PM, pending breaking news.) The piece discusses the impact of the recession on women’s and men’s roles at work and at home—especially when men lose their jobs and women [...]
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Bridging the Work-Family Divide: What the Best U.S. Employers Are Doing to Help Working Families

By Shanny Peer | Published: October 12, 2009
…and Why We Also Need Public Policies to Support Families Raising the Next Generation of Americans When I became a parent 11 years ago, I faced the same dilemmas as every new working mom in America. How could I nurture one—and then two—young children and a career at the same time? Should I quit work [...]
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How do you job share?

By Morra | Published: October 9, 2009
In the New York Times Jennifer Turano, Ad Sales Director at Glamour magazine wrote an in-depth description of how she shares her job with Joan O’Rourke. Jennifer has been through several partners in her eight years of job sharing, and at times she has shouldered the whole load herself ‘til she found the right [...]
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Looking at wellness: beyond the gym membership

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: October 8, 2009
Cross posted from the Huffington Post: In her recent piece celebrating National Work & Family month, Donna Klein of Corporate Voices notes that “progressive personnel policies and a work culture supportive of occasional flexibility” offers companies “enhanced recruitment, retention, engagement, cost control, productivity and financial performance.” Here’s another reason to support an effective and flexible work culture [...]
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Hourly Workers: National Work & Family Month, Donna Klein

By ksakai | Published: October 6, 2009
As we examine new US Census data that seems to show the majority of married stay at home mothers are not “opting out” of high paying jobs, but rather, as the Omaha World Herald put it “of these married mothers, the Census Bureau found they were more likely to be Hispanic and foreign born. They [...]
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Sex, Love and Labor Statistics

By FWIGuest | Published: October 5, 2009
This is a guest post from Sharon Meers, co-author of Getting to 50-50. Visit Sharon’s blog here. On NPR this week, I was asked if there’s any good in the new statistics showing that women now outnumber men in the work force.  Maybe.   If it lets us embrace women as breadwinners, I said, that would [...]
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