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- What is a Mommy Blogger? 11:08pm Dec 22
- ISO: Community-Building Sites for Working Mothers 10:30pm Dec 16
- A Caregiver’s Worth 11:04pm Dec 15
Earlier this week Babble came out with it’s list of the fifty best “mommy bloggers.” In a lot of ways it’s a great list — I read many of these women and have linked to some of them, notably The Mommy Blog and Silicon Valley Moms Blog. But the ...
The Mama Bee ISO: Community building sites for working mothers. Know of any great working mother sites -- local, national, political, practical, or otherwise? The Mama Bee is making a list, checking it twice, and planning to post links in the next couple of weeks. Send me your suggestions via FB, Twitter or comments on the blog.
Last week, in response to my post about “The Invisible Working Mother” blogger CV Harquail of Authentic Organizations challenged me to come up with some great sites that build community for working moms. I’...
Last week Ruth Mantell at The Wall Street Journal’s Marketwatch posted this ill-titled piece “Calculating the Value of Women’s Work.” I say ill-titled because what the article discusses is not “women’s work” per se, but rather work that has traditionally been done by women. It also mixe...
A few weeks ago Lynn Harris had a thoughftul post on Salon.com about the recent trend towards “mommy-hating” in the media. Ha...
This weekend The Wall Street Journal published yet another article about women going back to keep their families afloat when their husbands are out of a job...
A few years ago in a board of directors meeting, the president of my company was in the middle of a presentation when her cell phone rang; she looked at the display and saw that her son was calling...
Recently I’ve been considering going to graduate school. Going through the application process, I’ve been struck by how impossible graduate education must seem to many qualified people, especially if you are a parent. Pu...
I’ve recently heard several career coaches and motivational authors talk about how the poor economy might benefit women in the workplace by offering more flex and part-time opportunities. ...
It’s always particularly vexing to see a publication directed at women promoting the worst kind of female stereotypes. ...
There is an incredible passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar about choice. ...
Last night I was on a terrific panel about different kinds of work choices along with a career coach and a “mompreneuer.” I represented the full-time working mom perspective. The group asked interesting questions, many driven by personal experience, but still relevant to the group. On...
Last week I heard this interview on NPR’s Fresh Air with the wonderful Ruth Reichl, former New York Times food columnist and editor of the recently closed Gourmet Magazine (November is their last issue). ...
I recently read a 2008 article in Edutopia by Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, author of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, that presents an exciting “Education 2.0″ vision of using technology to create lessons that are tailored to individual stu...
