Only celebrities are allowed to be pregnant and still work. They can afford nannies, and entire film shoots are scheduled around their pregnancies. Pregnant ladies in Hollywood are like spiders. The Hollywood studios scream when they see a spider and want to get rid of it, but then a good producer reminds them that…
Many companies’ maternity leave policies are profoundly insufficient —but women often struggle to access this information before accepting a job offer. Fairygodboss, a new startup where women review their places of employment, offers a database that should provide future parents with the transparency denied to so many…
A mom who was fed up with her kids dodging her calls invented an app that makes it harder to ignore calls from parents.
Leaving a high powered job to pursue your true June Cleaver stay-at-home-mom smiling-serenely-while-scrubbing-the-grout-in-pearls vocation sounds like an untenable fantasy from jump — like those shoes that were supposed to make your butt look good without exercising, or frozen s'mores (they whole POINT of S'MORES is…
The movie I Don't Know How She Does It, based on the bestselling novel by Allison Pearson, follows a woman dedicated to her work and devoted to her family. In the book, she is described as being a victim of "time famine" — "a woman who counts seconds like other women count calories." There's a meta feel to this…
The more mothers work, the fatter their kids get. The solution is obviously to live in a world where, magically, economic necessity doesn't dictate that two parents earn incomes in order to adequately support children. Be richer, moms!
There were no major junk-touching skirmishes reported from airports this Thanksgiving travel weekend. But that doesn't mean the pushback is over, not with resurgent reports of young mothers and menstruating women, among others, grabbing headlines.
The case of one of the women suing Goldman Sachs for discrimination has been dismissed, which could also mean a settlement. Charlotte Hanna, fired one week before returning from maternity leave, had said working mothers were "second-class citizens'' at Goldman.
What would force someone to spend $8,600 taking out ads in major newspapers proclaiming "I Am A Bad Woman?" For Hwang Myoung-eun, the full page polemic the only way to vent her frustration as a working mother.
A study by Britain's Institute of Child Health reports that kids of working mothers are more likely to eat unhealthy snacks and watch a lot of TV. Cue the Guilt Police!
Bring your daughter to work day is well, any day ending in "-day" for some companies. According to The Guardian, over 80 U.S. companies allow new parents to bring babies to work anytime they want. This information comes from a non-profit organization called Parenting At Work, and a quick perusal of the companies that…
