So I’m skimming through an entertainment article in the Daily Mail (from across the pond) this morning when suddenly I come across a completely random rant against working mothers and maternity leave. Written by a woman. I just about choked on my coffee. Check it out: Excessive maternity leave hampers women in the workplace Why [...]
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Women on the Battlefield: Protecting Our Soldiers
Just in time for me to read an article about the Navy considering allowing women to serve on submarine vessels, I receive the IAVA’s newest report on women veterans and soldiers: Women Warriors: Supporting “She Who Has Born the Battle.” If you don’t know about it already, hop over there and read it — you [...]
Why the Insured Should Support Health Care Reform: Employer Sponsored Health Insurance is an Endangered Species
South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson’s decidedly un-Congressional outburst during President Obama’s speech on health care reform was met with swift censure from his colleagues on both sides of the political fence. But while he was publicly called out for his inappropriate and disrespectful behavior toward the President, no one has taken him on for [...]
The REAL Opt-Out Revolution
There has been much talk in the news and among the mom blogs about the Opt-Out Revolution. The phrase, coined by Lisa Belkin in a 2003 New York Times Magazine article, refers to highly-educated professional women who, upon entering parenthood, choose to stay home with their children as full-time caregivers rather than try to juggle [...]
Caregiving in Context: A Powered Woman
(This was originally written during the presidential campaign of 2008, specifically to submit a feminist platform to the Democratic party.) Imagine the world without mothers. Do we have a world? No. The center circle in the middle of our world of concentric circles is a mother, a woman who wants to be a mother and [...]
Work/Life Balance? Time to Lighten the Caregiving Load
I’m tired. My job and two kids take it out of me both physically and mentally, every day. The husband, a most loving partner and doting father, is happy to help, eager for instruction like a dog waiting for its master’s next command. When he’s not focusing on his 70-plus-hours-a-week job, that is. Some days, [...]
Blog Carnival: Women and Caregiving
Our blog carnival about women and caregiving is happening now. If you have a blog post going up, let us know in the comments or by email so we can add you to this list! Deborah Halpern, National Family Caregivers Association, Who Are Family Caregivers?, 6-26-09 We are mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, grand daughters [...]
For Women, the Other Side of Work Is NOT Play…It’s Caregiving
After hearing from many people that Sunday night online events are just not convenient, we conducted a little survey of alternative times and the results are in: From now on, Fem2.0 Twittercasts will be Monday nights, 10 pm EST, under the hashtag #fem2. Our next Twittercast will take place July 13 on a topic near [...]
Caregiving is not a role people usually choose
Caregiving seems to choose us, emerging from events and circumstances beyond our control. Spinal cord injury, debilitation or sudden illness may come without warning. This is a job that cannot be skirted and cannot always be delegated. It can be difficult, physically and emotionally. It can be time-consuming. While caring for loved ones can be [...]
Who are family caregivers?
We are mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, grand daughters and friends. We are the ones caring for our loved ones with chronic ailments, disabilities and the frailties of old age. The question is … do we recognize who we are? Generally the answer is a resounding NO. We see ourselves as loving mothers, devoted wives, responsible [...]