by Stacey
I’m just about at the end of my first week of work. So far, so good. I’ve enjoyed being back in an office, I like my co-workers, and I’ve been able to make it home by about 4pm everyday to hang out with my kids. Gotta love the flex-schedule. (We won’t talk about the […]

Cross-posted at MotherTalkers
by Stacey
Teenagers who want to scoop ice cream or sell clothing from their favorite store this summer may have a harder time than usual landing a job. This article in the NY Times says that little more than one-third of the 16- to 19-year-olds in the United States are likely to be employed […]

by Stacey
Before I begin let me say sorry for the lapse in posts last week. Life has gotten hectic since I decided to go back to work. I’ve completely lost my routine in which I put my younger son Sascha down for a nap and happily sit down at the computer to ponder the latest […]

by Stacey
Whether a young man’s mother earned a college degree or worked outside the home while he was growing up may influence his choice of a future wife, according to a new study by sociologists at the University of Iowa. Thanks to this article in ScienceDaily for the tip.
High-achieving men — those who earn salaries […]

by Stacey
If toxic paint wasn’t enough of a reason to boycott toys made in China, an article in today’s NY Times says that hundreds and maybe thousands of children in China have been sold to work as slave laborers in booming coastal factory cities.
Authorities in southern Guangdong Province, near Hong Kong, said they had already […]

by Stacey
Okay, this is bad. According to this article in the London Sunday Times, more and more people in their thirties are suffering from early mid-life crises. Thanks to Salon’s Broadsheet for the tip.
If you’re in your mid-thirties, hassled by the dramas of juggling work and family, doubting decisions you’ve made professionally and personally, panicked […]

by Stacey
Remember when we all climbed the corporate ladder? According to this article in the Washington Post, the ladder’s gone. Think lattice. Corporate lattice. Huh?
Women are “redesigning careers to be a lattice instead of a ladder,” said Ellen Galinsky, president of the Families and Work Institute. If you view your career as a ladder and […]

by Stacey
Increasing numbers of pregnant women are complaining of workplace bias, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal. Thanks to reader AADC for the tip.

Pregnancy-bias complaints recorded by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission surged 14% last year to 5,587, up 40% from a decade ago and the biggest annual increase in 13 years.

But […]

by Stacey
All’s fair on reality television. People swap spouses, get new and improved homes to live in, and compete for titles like “Top Chef!” And now, according to this article in Newsweek, stay-at-home mothers can try out going back to work while the whole nation watches. The show is called “Secret Life of a Soccer […]

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by Stacey
Here’s some crazy crap for you: According to a new documentary film making its way through politically conservative circles, there’s an ominous decline in childbirth rates around the world such that if we all don’t start procreating fast, armageddon is surely afoot. The movie is called “Demographic Winter: Decline of the Human […]