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Nov 17, 2009, 1:09 am
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. The piece didn’t have any very new... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 1:06 am
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. ... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 12:43 am
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, ... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2009, 1:02 am
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. I ha... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 1:39 am
It’s always particularly vexing to see a publication directed at women promoting the worst kind of female stereotypes. This week ForbesWoman, an offshoot of Forbes Magazine, included an articl... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 1:47 am
There is an incredible passage in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar about choice. The novel’s protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is thinking about her future:
I saw my life branching out before m... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2009, 1:59 am
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... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 1:44 am
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 las... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 1:45 am
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 exciti... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 2:20 am
I’ve been critical of Judith’s Warner’s New York Times blog in the past; however, her latest post “The Choice Myth” is a worthwhile read. Warner recaps new data suggest... Comment - Like
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Oct 6, 2009, 1:43 am
Last week Lisa Belkin’s 2003 New York Times Magazine article “The Opt-Out Revolution” reared its ugly, mommy-wars inspiring head yet again, when Washington Post reporter Donna St. Ge... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2009, 1:05 am
In a recent post over at Double X, Linda Hirshman heralds a new era of working women. She points out that because of the recession and some very public examples of men failing their stay-at-home wiv... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 1:59 am
Winter squash is one of my favorite fall foods. I especially like the small “single-serve” versions because they require little cleaning and prep — no peeling or chopping, and not ... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 2:50 am
Last Friday The New York Times ran an article titled “Recession Drives Women Back to Workforce,” profiling several long-time stay at home mothers, all highly educated former professionals,... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 1:57 am
Last week two interesting aryicles about working mothers in Germany turned up in the London Times and the Globe & Mail. The pieces pointed out that Germany — for all of the benefits it offers ... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 2:05 am
There is a wonderfully optimistic article in this week’s Newsweek about demographic and workforce shifts that are leading women to have significantly greater purchasing power than men. This is... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2009, 1:43 am
This week an article in the Indianapolis Star reported that Eli Lilly will limit its flexible work program, asking most employees to go back to traditional business hours. The announcement comes on ... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2009, 1:42 am
Over the past few months Deborah Spar, president of Barnard College and former professor at Harvard Business School, has been promoting the idea that if there had been more women on Wall Street, the f... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2009, 1:54 am
Last week in The New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote an interesting critique of some of the latest eco-living books including No-Impact Man, Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100 Mile Diet, and Sleeping N... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2009, 1:54 am
A few weeks ago I sheepishly approached my boss to let her know that I would need to take a bunch of mornings and afternoons off this week and next for back to school activities. Between “phas... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2009, 1:52 am
With reports of more men than women facing lay-offs, there has been optimism from the work life community about the workplace changing to better meet the needs of parents, especially mothers. An art... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2009, 1:56 am
The New York Times‘ Modern Love column had an interesting piece this weekend about what it means to be a “wife,” which in this case really means “housewife.” Author Sar... Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2009, 1:45 am
A couple of weeks ago psychologist Alison Gopnik wrote a widely read editorial in The New York Times about how babies learn. Her conclusion wasn’t earth-shattering — in fact many of us k... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2009, 8:59 am
It’s taken me a while to get to Meg Wolitzer’s The Ten-Year Nap. I’ve had the sense that I might be bored and annoyed with the book’s over-privileged stay-at-home mother char... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2009, 1:58 am
Last week I wrote about Michael Pollan’s New York Times Magazine article calling on us all to reclaim the art of cooking, particularly the variety promoted by the likes of Julia Child. I love ... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2009, 2:47 am
On the heels of Louise Chunn’s piece about her life as a working mother comes two more personal essays in a similar vein, one from Katie Allison Granju in Babble, and a second mother-daughter ed... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2009, 1:45 am
Last week I had dinner with a friend who pointed out that working women have lost the collective sense we had during the golden years of feminism; these days women who opt out do so at the expense of ... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2009, 2:59 am
Over the past few weeks I’ve been feeling badly about not exercising. I’m lucky to have a gym in my office building, and usually I can get in 30 to 40 minutes of cardio plus a little wei... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2009, 1:37 am
There’s been much talk about Hillary Clinton losing her temper after a journalist in Congo asked for her husband’s opinion on the situation there. Aside from the fact that the whole thin... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2009, 2:53 am
Last week The Times of London reported on the heart-breaking story of Catherine Bailey, a 41-year old lawyer and mother of three who drowned herself in the Thames. The articles in The Times and the ... Comment - Like
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Aug 7, 2009, 2:08 am
The weather on the East coast this summer has been abysmal. On weekday evenings and weekend days when we would normally go to the playground, Baby Bee and I have been cooped up at home. We’v... Comment - Like
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Aug 6, 2009, 2:51 am
Earlier this week The New York Times asked “Do Women Make Better Managers?” The piece suggests that women mange more effectively than men by virtue of being women. There has been a spa... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2009, 1:33 am
Add to the things I have to be thankful for: I’ve never had a playdate like the ones Emily Bazelon describes in her recent Double X post Defending the Playdate. Reading the piece, I wonder ... Comment - Like
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May 3, 2009, 8:18 pm
The Mama Bee offers tips, support, news and commentary for mothers working in corporate environments. Visit us at http://themamabee.wordpress.com. Comment - Like
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Apr 23, 2009, 4:29 am
Hi everyone! I'm just getting started on Momaroo... Drop me a comment if you've got some ideas on what to do first - or just to say, "Hi!" Comment - Like
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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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