Tag Archives: womenomics

Where in the News is FWI?

By FWInews | Published: July 13, 2009
Families and Work Institute weekly media highlights. Work-Life Integration: Womenomics: A Bill of Goods or New World Order? Laura P. Thomas discusses themes from Womenomics and how those themes play out in her life as a working mother and, as of recently, the sole breadwinner of her family. She mentions the CLC conference call with Katty Kay, Claire [...]
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Jumping back on the ladder- a conversation with Harvard’s Christine Heenan

By Morra | Published: June 25, 2009
Cross-posted from the Huffington Post Brenda Barnes, now CEO of Sara Lee, has gotten a lot of press because she left the corporate workforce for a decade to spend more time with her children, and recently returned to be CEO of a major company. Barnes is indeed a rare person, and women can make themselves feel [...]
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Where in the news is FWI?

By FWInews | Published: June 24, 2009
This is the debut of a weekly series highlighting where Families and Work Institute appears in the national media. Expecting Mothers: The New Normal: Maternity Leave This piece by ABC’s Good Morning America draws attention to current Maternity Leave policies in the United States and highlights the struggles of pregnant women throughout the workforce during the recession. [...]
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Talking Womenomics with Claire Shipman and Katty Kay

By Morra | Published: June 14, 2009
Flexibility at work “isn’t like a favor you hand out at a children’s birthday party.” It’s good for business and good for people. “For the past 30 years [women] were happy to sit quietly at the boardroom table and that’s changed: the boardroom table has to change. We think that can finally happen now.” These were the [...]
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