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Feb 2, 2012, 5:53 pm
The other day a male acquaintance from my MBA program, a soon-to-be father, said that he’d had enough of working in finance in the big city. He was rethinking his goals, looking to work like a dog over the next five to ten years so that he could move to a tropical paradise and drop out of the in... Comment - Like
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Sep 10, 2011, 11:28 pm
As I’m winding down my MBA experience, I’m taking a management class to prepare for what I hope will be a big career transition over the next few years. The course launched this weekend with a case about a manager in his early 30s with a wife and three children who relocates to India to open a... Comment - Like
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Aug 28, 2011, 7:35 am
Dear Professor:
Attached please find my exam submission with graphs. My apologies for the late graph submission — by way of explaining, I’ve applied the IS-LM-FE framework to my own experience over the past couple of days as follows:
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Jul 15, 2011, 5:03 pm
The other day I was invited to an event with a number of bloggers who are mothers. If you were a marketer you might call it a ‘mommy blogger‘ event. I knew hardly any of the other women, but one came up to me and asked where I write. I told her about my blog; ‘it’s about women, work an... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2011, 10:35 pm
The dismal US jobs numbers and GDP growth have got me thinking about Norway. Recently the New York Times asserted that the country’s prosperity is fueled by the number of working women, 7% more than in the United States and 10% more than in the rest of Europe. Norway is still seeing negative G... Comment - Like
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Jul 5, 2011, 10:14 pm
Catching up on TED Talks, I recently heard Johanna Blakley speak about how social media will end gender as we know it. Blakley’s hypothesis is that new media offers marketers the ability to segment in radically different ways, making traditional demographics obsolete. Because so many of our no... Comment - Like
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Jun 30, 2011, 10:57 pm
I’ve been reading a lot about the phenomenon that is ‘Go the F**k to Sleep.’ Some like it, some hate it. Strangely viral, the book strikes me as no more than a novelty. Who would want to read it more than once?
I wanted to like the book. I see myself as the kind of cool, subversive mo... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 11:12 pm
I’m finally catching up on New Yorker articles, and was fascinated by the recent piece on Silvio Berlusconi, the scandalous President of Italy. Although he has been roundly criticized for alleged sex with underage girls and Bunga Bunga orgies, Berlusconi also made women central to his cabinet, a... Comment - Like
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May 23, 2011, 11:07 pm
I started writing this post last October — with an apology for being away for more than a month. Already I had heard from my online friends and community asking if I was okay. I never answered because I kept thinking I would finish this post and all would be explained. Little did I know that... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2010, 3:39 am
The other day one of my blogger friends forwarded me a message she had received from a marketer representing a lawyer looking to break into social media through the “mommy market.” The marketer wrote:
Many professional women plan to go back to work after they have a baby. But when the reali... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2010, 3:38 am
Last week I was at BlogHer, and it was great — great to meet so many amazing bloggers in person, and great to feel like feminism and activism are alive and well.
The closing keynote was nominally about using your voice, your platform and your power for advocacy, but really was a much deeper conve... Comment - Like
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Aug 4, 2010, 3:18 am
Today’s New York Times piece by David Leonhardt sums it up, quoting Columbia University professor Jane Waldfogel:
American feminists made a conscious choice to emphasize equal rights and equal opportunities, but not to talk about policies that would address family responsibilities…[consequently... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 3:38 am
Will we never learn that when we ask whether a child is better off with a working mother or a stay at home mom nobody wins? Such is the case with the most recent study reported in the Washington Post that shows “the overall effect of 1st-year maternal employment on child development neutral.”
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Aug 2, 2010, 2:51 am
Do we still need the women’s movement? On Friday I had a personal experience that reminded me that sexism is alive and well, even in the most liberal of places — the New York metro area.
I was coming home with my infant son on the Long Island Railroad from a visit to friends. The baby was f... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2010, 3:16 am
This quote from The New York Times‘ recent “Female Factor” piece “The Stigma of Being a Housewife” made me raise my eyebrows:
When it is no longer socially acceptable to be a housewife — or homemaker, in modern American parlance — has feminism overshot its objective?
Has feminism has... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2010, 3:11 am
The Wall Street Journal’s “The Juggle” blog recently reported that benefits like paid maternity leave, comprehensive healthcare, tuition reimbursement and flex-time are on the decline according to a study by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). I’m not surprised. We’re in ... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2010, 2:54 am
Last week Melissa at Momocrats responded thoughtfully to my recent post expressing ambivalence about legislation around flextime saying:
I wonder how we can continue without government intervention. I’ve no doubt that MamaBee is a terrific manager but…she is one manager. For most U.S. employees... Comment - Like
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Jun 17, 2010, 2:38 am
The Wandering Scientist, one of my favorite working mom bloggers, brought my attention to John Tierney’s recent New York Times op-ed, Daring to Discuss Women in Science. The piece is nominally about new legislation being introduced to increase the number of women in STEM fields (science, technol... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 2:20 am
A few weeks ago Barbara Kellerman wrote a Harvard Business Review piece imploring us to “stop touting gains so long as those gains remain meager.” As if on cue, The Atlantic ran a cover story by Hanna Rosin last week titled “The End of Men: How Women Are Taking Control of Everythin... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2010, 1:25 am
Today’s First Person Friday comes to us from Diana Windley, who blogs about her mom+career world in Green Mountain, Utah at Mom Means Business. You can follow Diana on Twitter at DiWin.
A few years ago I called to schedule two appointments with our pediatrician. Our older daughter needed a pr... Comment - Like
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Jun 3, 2010, 9:05 am
Despite that over 70% of mothers work, it’s funny that there’s very little media created specifically for us. In fact, there are exponentially more publications that tell you how to make the best cupcake or decorate the ideal nursery or plan the perfect birthday party than there are ab... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2010, 10:51 am
Today’s First Person Friday comes to us from The Mama Bee’s mama: Grandma Bee. She doesn’t have a blog (yet), but from time to time she comments and contributes here at TMB.
Reading The Mama Bee, I sometimes wonder whether this generation of young mothers thinks that they are... Comment - Like
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May 26, 2010, 10:40 am
Perhaps it’s unwise to admit this given that I’m participating in a Room of Your Own panel at Blogher called “Screw Worklife Balance, We Need Worklife POLICY!”, but I’m ambivalent about worklife policy. Get your flames ready.
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May 20, 2010, 9:05 pm
Today’s First Person Friday comes to us from Liz O’Donnell, who blogs about feminism, politics, work and sometimes family at Hello Ladies. Liz is one of my favorite fellow travelers: a mother, a worker, a blogger, a self-proclaimed feminist — and a terrific writer. You can foll... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2010, 5:43 pm
Just before Mother’s Day Sharon Lerner, author of The War on Moms: On Life in a Family Unfriendly Nation, wrote an op-ed in The Nation: The Gender Equity Bubble Goes Pop!. Lerner argues that a profound lack of support services like affordable childcare and paid leave are leaving women burnt ... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2010, 10:19 pm
Last week I started a new weekly “feature” giving working mothers a platform to tell their stories. I’ve written before about the invisible working mother phenomenon, and I hope this forum offers community and inspiration for those of us who feel underrepresented in traditional m... Comment - Like
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May 13, 2010, 11:19 am
A couple of weeks ago a CEO named Maynard Webb extolled the virtues of life as an independent contractor in The Huffington Post. He wrote compellingly about the need for a new model of flexible work, saying that:
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May 12, 2010, 12:37 pm
Laura Vanderkam posted a very interesting take on part-time work in USA Today this week. She points out that while a much-touted Pew study suggests a majority of mothers would prefer to work part-time, the numbers tell us that part-time work offers little more quality time with family but signific... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 12:39 pm
A friend pointed out that there are very few first-person narratives — especially funny ones — by/for working mothers. I’m making Friday my day for personal anecdotes, even though this kind of writing is not Mama Bee’s forte. Bear with me, I’m trying something new!... Comment - Like
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May 5, 2010, 12:03 pm
Last week Barbara Kellerman posted a terrific piece at the Harvard Business Review on “The Abiding Tyranny of the Male Leadership Model”. The title suggests a radical manifesto, but in fact Kellerman simply points out the facts: despite all of the hoopla about how far we have come, wom... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2010, 3:22 pm
Earlier today an article came across my twitter feed from ForbesWoman titled “Worst Words to Say at Work: These nine words and phrases will make you sound noncommittal, undependable and untrustworthy“. The article didn’t specifically mention women anywhere, so I’m trying to... Comment - Like
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Apr 20, 2010, 10:59 am
Over the weekend Jon Prial at Balanced Bits drew my attention to a terrific report by NPR’s On The Media, tweeting “Knew it was MamaBee fodder as soon as I heard it.” The piece was nominally about women in media and communications, but actually spoke to the challenge of female ad... Comment - Like
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Apr 16, 2010, 10:19 am
A few of my favorite #worklife bloggers (Judy Martin, Chrysula Winegar, Leanne Chase, Cali Yost) have been engaging in a conversation about the value of slowing down, finding serenity, and insisting on quality of life in the workplace. For me, improving finding peace in my professional and family ... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2010, 9:08 am
The other day a friend of mine who is on maternity leave mentioned that her large company asked that she sign a document indicating that she would give back her six weeks of parental leave pay if she left the company within six months following her return to work. She was annoyed — not irate... Comment - Like
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Apr 7, 2010, 9:30 am
Yesterday I responded to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal suggesting that the costs of pumping milk in the workplace weren’t worth the benefits to mother and child. Turns out that a similar conversation on this topic is happening around the recent study released by the journal Ped... Comment - Like
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Apr 6, 2010, 1:01 pm
Every so often newspaper and magazine execs must think to themselves “How can we drive more traffic to our website? How can we get those mommy-bloggers everyone is talking about to pick us up? We know! Let’s write about breastfeeding — that gets ‘em every time!” ... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2010, 11:21 am
Last week business news widely reported that a Vice President at Goldman Sachs was suing the firm for “mommy-tracking.” The same firm that is handling her case is also suing Citigroup on behalf of an associate in the asset finance division who claims she was demoted following maternity l... Comment - Like
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Mar 26, 2010, 9:26 am
Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal’s LawBlog posted some thoughts on why women don’t stay at law firms. The article identified work/life and mentorship as two areas that law firms could improve to retain female talent, and floated that idea that sexism might also play a role in ... Comment - Like
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Mar 18, 2010, 10:36 am
Earlier this week NPR ran a three-part series on how companies are changing their business models to accomodate new work life strategies. It was interesting — though could only scratch the surface of the issues. In response to the NPR pieces, Kathie Lingle, Executive Director of the Allian... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 1:08 pm
The other day I said to a friend that I was very skeptical of work life experts who suggest that women march right in and ask their employers for flexibility or part-time or other kinds of “work-life” accomodation. I suspect that for the average middle management employee this strategy... Comment - Like
Mama Bee writes The Mama Bee blog, and has been in management positions for over ten years. She and holds a masters degree in management and economic policy from Columbia University, and lives with her husband and son in Brooklyn, NY.
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