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Since the collapse of the domestic housing market in 2007 and the ensuing global financial swoon, much has been made of the Great Recession's effect on men. More men lost their jobs than women, and just two years ago, more men were unemployed than women. Because of this, the Department of Horrible Neologisms has christened this the "Great He-Cession," or, more obnoxiously, "Man-cession." Now that the economy is starting to tenuously recover, however, women are being left out in the cold as men return to work, and it turns out that while men were losing their jobs, women were losing out on a lot more. Man-cession, indeed. More »
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Residents of the Land of Lincoln are undoubtedly aware of the unrelenting clusterfuck that is state and local governments. Usually the tangled web of patronage and ball-dropping results in rueful head shaking, or a shrug along with the line, "Well! That's Illinois!" But now, it seems that the headless vowel elongating chickens who run things around here have really dropped the ball. More »
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What does being a single mom do for your health by age 40? Mostly, nothing good, as you might guess. But a new study that measured its effects also suggests that marriage isn't necessarily a magical cure for all women. More »
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Want people to more eagerly dive into baby-making? Here's a tip: Help 'em take care of the little suckers. More »
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It's the season of social conservatives saying exactly what they intend for women! Thanks for dispensing with the subtext, guys. More »
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What, according to a researcher in a major new study, "contribute[s] to continuing gender inequality in earnings and career advancement"? That working mothers are more than twice as likely as fathers to interrupt sleep for childcare purposes. More »
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Domestic service workers in New York State are now guaranteed overtime pay, paid leave, and protection from workplace discrimination. Everybody freak out! More »
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• 28 flight attendants at Turkish Airlines have been asked to stay grounded for six months while they try and slim down. According to the airline, all of them had previously been received warnings about their weight.

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Celebrity moms reportedly all have nannies, yet we never see them. Sure, this can make normal moms feel inadequate — but what about, um, nannies? More »
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In a sort of payback for I Saw Your Nanny, researchers have collected au pairs' observations about their employers. And they're not pretty. More »
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This Father's Day, being a dad was apparently more stressful than ever. Explanations for this range from employers failing to take into account new family dynamics to a supposedly "female-dominated world." More »
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The Colbert Report was an inspired place to take an "End Of Men" thesis, which author Hanna Rosin did last night. After all, in addition to his overweening narcissism, Stephen Colbert's character is all about the traditionalist's sense of grievance. More »
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It's television's job to wring drama out of any situation, but this clip shows TLC's Daycare Divas, premiering next Tuesday Friday, working extra-hard at it. Hopefully there's room in the storyline for the challenges faced by this overwhelmingly female workforce. More »
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• Joe The Plumber is pissed at Nancy Pelosi, so pissed that he would like to "beat" her: "Those kind of people, I usually took behind the woodshed and just beat the livin' tar out of ‘em." Charming. • More »
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On Tuesday, NPR featured a segment on the difficulties of balancing work and family, but this time with an interesting twist: all the women interviewed were in the military. More »
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Last weekend, McCain surrogate Carly Fiorina told women to stop allowing the Democrats to win their votes on the issue of abortion, saying, "The Democratic Party has done a disservice to women by trying to hold women hostage to the issue of Roe v. Wade." In Carly's world view (and in her speech last night), the issue is the economy, not abortion. Carly might have been the only person at the RNC last night for whom abortion isn't that important an issue. More »
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It's no great secret that our economy isn't doing as well as it used to — from rising gas prices to rising inflation and from foreclosures to bank takeovers, plenty of people are pretty concerned with the way the economy is heading. In a new poll from the National Women’s Law Center, almost 60 percent of women — but only 46 percent of men — say they are "worried and concerned about achieving [their] economic and financial goals over the next five years." I guess when you make 20 percent less than men on average and face a widening pay gap with men as you age, it tends to make you a touch more worried about your future! More »
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In Emily Yoffe's Human Guinea Pigs column today, the Slate writer tries out being a day care worker in D.C.'s Gap Community Child Care Center, which mostly provides subsidized child care to low-income women so that they can work. It is, to say the least, not a fun job. There's screaming and fighting and crap-filled diapers, runny noses and messy meals and the constant need to entertain a squirming mass of children to prevent even more screaming, fighting and snotting (because nothing can stem the tide of shit). At the end of a long say, Emily (a mother herself) catches herself thinking, "This is the reason television and cocktails were invented, " and, amen to that! But Emily also points out one sad but true fact of the child care industry: expensive though it might be for to put kids in child care, some of the women least likely to be able to afford child care are the women who provide it. More »
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When it comes to American women and the potential and/or already-existing recession, there's good news, and there's bad news. The good news, according to Business Week: American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs from November to April, while American men in the same age demographic lost nearly 700,000 jobs in that time period. In addition, in the private sector, the employment level for women went from 58.1% to 58.3%. Now the bad news! The jobs these women are getting aren't particularly good ones. Eileen Appelbaum, director of Rutgers University's Center for Women & Work, tells BW, "We had an expansion of jobs for home health aides, retail clerks, child-care workers. They're low-wage, they're dead-end, and they don't have any benefits." In addition, the pay gap is widening: the past year, median weekly earnings for men rose 4.6%, while it only grew 3.1% for women. Over 75% of those making over $100,000 are men, BW notes, even though women are graduating from college at higher rates. So what does this mean for the economy as a whole? More »
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Yesterday's Page Six Magazine attacked the subject of mommies who find themselves needing multiple nannies. (We thought it would be challenging for them to match the pathos and capacity for conveying human suffering reached by last week's story about Wall Street traders who go to massage parlors, but they did.) We meet Yael Halaas, a 38-year-old plastic surgeon and mother of three, who calls having two nannies "the best damn thing in the world to make life function." We learn that some women find themselves needing a second nanny for basic "one is illegal and can't come to Bermuda"-type purposes, others when they want their kids to be exposed to a blend of different personality traits and/or world cuisines ("I wake up to her cooking buckwheat crepes from scratch!" cooes one) others when the first one simply proves too competent at "management" functions, such as finding a second nanny. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=382304&view=rss&microfeed=true From a happy little Q&A on child-abusing baby sitters in Good Housekeeping: More »
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