Tag-Team Parenting
A report (pdf) from the Center for Economic and Policy Research examines the differences in the division of household labor and parenting across socioeconomic lines. According to the report: – Less educated parents are more likely to work evening and night shifts. Among working mothers without a high school degree, only 58.5 percent have a [...]
...read moreWhy don’t more women breastfeed, again?
If you had any doubts that breastfeeding in America is a luxury, this story should clear them up for you. When a new mother returns to Starbucks’ corporate headquarters in Seattle after maternity leave, she learns what is behind the doors mysteriously marked “Lactation Room.” Whenever she likes, she can slip away from her desk [...]
...read moreI so love my job
For the past several weeks, and also the next several weeks, I am looking through a document production to figure out just what the hell went wrong between our client and the company they supplied material to. Most of this involves looking through emails written by the purchasing manager of the vendee, a man whose [...]
...read moreAs We Suspected
Several people, during the whole Forbes career woman debacle last week, expressed the suspicion that the whole thing was done to drive traffic to the site. Not a very well-thought-out plan, surely, considering that some 35% of Forbes subscribers are female, and quite likely the very career women that Michael Noer was warning the male [...]
...read moreNot Getting It
Slate’s defense of that Forbes article: It’s gender-neutral, we swear! The blogs entries collected by Technorati accuse Forbes of culling the academic literature for fodder that will shove women back into the kitchen; send them back to the 1950s; and force them to put their buns in the oven and get their buns in bed. [...]
...read moreWhy You Should Marry a Doormat*
Or, Forbes explains why smart men everywhere** should avoid those nasty career women. 1. You are less likely to get married to her. And I thought that men were marriage-phobic and had to be corralled into the chapel. So wouldn’t this be a reason to date career women? We’re mixing up our masculine stereotypes here, [...]
...read moreNew Orleans’ Women Being Left Behind
The Times-Picayune has a story about a study (pdf) from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research which shows that, as bad as everybody has it in New Orleans, women have it that much worse: When it comes to economic opportunity in post-Katrina New Orleans, women, particularly African-American women, have been largely ignored, according to a [...]
...read moreArgh.
For some damn reason, I can never, ever type “subpoena” correctly — or quickly. So what do I get to do? Type “subpoena” a lot today. What’s the hair crost *your* ass today?
...read moreHair Politics
Erin Aubry Kaplan writes a very good column in the LA Times about the racial politics of hair. Her point is fairly simple: Denial is still at the core of black hair fashion, which in turn is at the still-unstable core of black identity and acceptability in the United States in 2006. Although braids, dreadlocks [...]
...read moreUhhhh….
A new study, apparently, has found that working long hours is worse for women than for men because women who work long hours tend to eat more unhealthy food and consume more caffeine than men who work long hours. Now, nowhere do I see a mention of the home lives of these women. Because this [...]
...read more“A Petri Dish of Capitalism”
That expensive blouse you’re wearing? It may have been sewn by a Filipina garment worker laboring in a factory owned by a Hong Kong mogul on a western Pacific island. The Northern Mariana Islands, a territory of the United States, offers the possibility of an American label — Made in Saipan (USA), Made in Northern [...]
...read moreAwright!
The Supreme Court unanimously upholds a worker’s right to sue for retaliation when the worker complains about bias, even when that retaliation does not take an ultimate form such as firing or denial of promotion. Reassignment to a less attractive job or a temporary suspension without pay can constitute retaliation, the Court said in deciding [...]
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