Archive for the 'families' Category
Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi of PatriarchalDISORDER You are growing up in a house with no mirrors. That’s right, no mirrors. But wait a sec, it’s not just your house! As you venture out into the world, you discover there are no mirrors anywhere. You can’t see what you look like and must rely [...]
Most American women might presume that the dangers of maternal mortality are a concern and problem only in developing nations. They’re wrong. A March 2010 report put out by Amnesty International entitled, Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA, highlights eye-opening findings. The data is based on research carried out during 2008 [...]
A number of years ago, I had a part-time gig at an elementary school where I taught afterschool classes in art and film classics. One warm June day, it was decided that the kids could spend thirty minutes in the playground. As I watched a scene that was a combination of raw energy and mayhem, [...]
Cross-posted with permission from Marcia G. Yerman. This article is dated May 30, 2010. May 30th is Military Sexual Trauma Awareness Day. The issue is starting to get more traction in terms of visibility, Congressional hearings, and acknowledgement from agencies that span a full range of alphabet soup. On Thursday, May 20th, a morning hearing [...]
NY Times Journalist and Author Judith Warner to Talk About Kids “With Issues” on Fem.0 Radio
by Feminism2.0
Mark your calendars for the latest Fem2.0 radio show with Judith Warner on May 18. Hosted by Lindsay Reed Maines of Rock and Roll Mama, we’ll be discussing parenting, medicating your children and Warner’s latest book. We’ve Got Issues: A Conversation with NY Times Journalist and Author Judith Warner Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 1:00 PM [...]
Cross-posted with permission from patriarchal disorder and dated from March 16. It’s St. Patty’s Day tomorrow, my mother’s birthday, and I’m feeling it. Today, while paying bills, which my mother carried out so much more efficiently than I ever have, I used my solar calculator to figure out that, if she were alive today, she [...]
Pump Up the Volume: the Wake Up! Campaign May Be Over, but the Conversation Continues
by Feminism2.0
Fem2.0′s campaign, Wake Up, This Is the Reality! is winding down, and what a ride it’s been! What have we learned from it? That the public work/life conversation about what it’s like to work in America today MUST NOT END. We got a measure of how tough it really is out here as we struggle [...]
This headline could be puzzling… What could possible make Work-Life Fit and Enterprise 2.0 relevant to each other? After all, one is a challenge of the modern workplace, and the other is a challenge to the modern workplace. They come together because both concepts ask us to redesign our organizations. Although Enterprise 2.0 and Work-Life [...]
Preliminary messaging research on work/life indicates several compelling frameworks for making the case for family-friendly work policies. Is there one message that really strikes a cord for you? And which message do you think would hit home for the majority of Americans? Does one fact really disgust you or just make you sad to think [...]
1. 48% of workers do not have paid sick days; 76% of low-wage workers and 80% of part-time workers do not have paid sick days. 2. In 1960, only 10% of mothers worked and only 10% were unmarried. Today 70% of mothers work and 40% of mothers are unmarried. 3. 70% of American children live [...]
