Yahoo Parenting interviewed White House advisor Valerie Jarrett on why we need paid leave and some obstacles to getting there. Here’s an excerpt: Family demographics and needs have shifted over time. Nearly half of the workforce is comprised of women. And 40 percent of working moms are either the primary or sole earner in their … Continued
Happy Labor Day, indeed! Progress continues as Obama announced paid leave for government contractors.
This Tumblr account lets parents tell their stories of life without paid parental leave. Tell your story today! I was unemployed and in need of work to support my children as a single mother of three. I secured a job interview, loaded up with coffee, and arrived ready to nail it. The director asked me … Continued
There’s some disheartening new polling data which shows women still feel treated unfairly in the workplace. One way to change this is offering employees training on implicit bias — much of the discrimination that occurs today is not of the explicit variety.
We can’t wait for the opening of Women’s Plaza and we’re so pleased to be featured along with Glaucia Martin-Porath and other women trailblazers in Portland for this article in Oregon Business!
While we believe this country has a long way to go toward improving parental leave, it’s important to realize just how far we’ve come! This great piece from Katherine Wintsch does just that.
Here’s a great op-ed by Anne Weisberg in the New York Times. We need to reimagine leadership so that the ideal workers are not the ones who stay at work the latest, but the ones who get all their work done and leave at a reasonable hour; they are not the ones who get on a … Continued
Ellen Bravo writes for the Huff Post: “After decades of advocacy, it appears the tide is turning: Momentum is building behind paid family leave legislation.”
Thank you Melinda Gates for writing this article and making this critical point. We couldn’t agree more and are so glad to see companies like Microsoft leading the way!
A clear (and entertainingly written) case for NOT trying to “have it all.” At least not all at once.