Work - Life Balance

Women [and men] today are seeking greater flexibility in their jobs to balance more effectively their work and family responsibilities. Lack of such arrangements often forces women to opt out of pursuing their career goals. When they return to work, women find themselves at a disadvantage in terms of earnings, opportunities and promotions. Employers who adopt more flexibility in the workplace allow women and men to lead more productive and effective lives.

Survey: Does Mom Know Best About Money? New Citibank Survey Reveals When It Comes to Financial Role Models, Mom Tops the List

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A nationwide survey issued by Citibank reveals that 38 percent of Americans report that they are more likely to resemble their mothers when it comes to their own financial behavior. Americans also cite Mom (35 percent) as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), acting as the primary decision-maker within the household, while 30 percent name Dad. In addition, adults remember their mothers talking to them at an early age about money, more than the "the birds and the bees."

Editorial:

From the press release:

The survey, conducted by Hart Research Associates, found that when it comes to financial matters such as saving, spending, borrowing and investing, Americans are more likely to identify with their mother (38 percent) than their father (34 percent).

Americans are also more likely to recognize their mother as the household CFO: 35 percent cited Mom as the primary financial decision-maker in the family; 32 percent reported both parents shared the responsibility; and 30 percent named their father. In addition, 45 percent of Americans say their mothers were better at managing the family budget than their fathers (21 percent). And, when it comes to getting a bargain, half of Americans (50 percent) say their mother was better, compared to just 20 percent acknowledging their father.

Source:

Marketwire press release

URL:

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/does-mom-know-best-about-money-new-citibank-survey-reveals-when-it-comes-financial-role-nyse-c-1510409.htm

Date:

May 5, 2011

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Report: State of the World’s Mothers 2011

Teaser:

Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers 2011 report reveals that Norway is currently the best country in which to be a mother while Afghanistan is the worst. The United States ranks 31st.

Editorial:

From the press release:

Norway is the world’s best place to be a mother, and eight of the 10 top-ranked countries are in Western Europe. The remaining two are in the southern hemisphere, with Australia ranking second and New Zealand eighth. This year, the United States ranks 31st of 43 developed countries, dropping three spots from last year’s rankings.

Meanwhile, eight of the world’s 10 worst countries to be a mother are in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The world’s toughest place to be a mother is Afghanistan, where two of every five children are malnourished and one in five will die before their fifth birthday. Afghan women have less than five years of schooling on average, and female life expectancy is only 45. Compare that to Norway, where one in 333 children die before age five and women typically complete 18 years of school and live to age 83.

Source:

Save the Children

URL:

http://www.savethechildren.org/site/c.8rKLIXMGIpI4E/b.6743707/k.219/State_of_the_Worlds_Mothers_2011.htm

Date:

May 3, 2011

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Looking to Women in America for Solutions

Submitted by Kate Meyer on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 5:13pm

*By Kate Meyer

Last week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal, General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, hosted a White House Webchat to highlight findings from the recently released report Women in America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being. Here at NCRW we were thrilled to see Jarrett and Bansal advocating for the same policies and programs that are on our agenda.

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Improving Outcomes for Low-Income Student Parents: The Role of Child Care Access on College Campuses

Submitted by sbanerjee on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 3:40pm

Member Organization:

Institute for Women’s Policy Research

Date/Time:

03/23/2011

Access to Paid Sick Days Less Common Among Workers of Color

Submitted by sbanerjee on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 11:14am

New Report! Leaves That Pay

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:44pm

This just in! Eileen Applebaum from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Ruth Milkman have released findings from their latest report, Leaves that Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California. In addition to new data and analysis on experiences with California's unique Paid Family Leave program, Applebaum and Milkman also offer a handy timeline of leave policymaking at the state and federal level as well as data on access to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). For instance, did you know that FMLA’s coverage is limited to only about half of all workers, and less than a fifth of all new mothers?

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Job strain ups heart-attack risk in women

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CNN: Researchers at Harvard Medical School studied 17,000 women over the course of ten years, and found that women who worked in demanding, high stress jobs but had little control or say over their day to day schedule were 88% more likely to have a heart attack than peers in jobs with less stress.

Editorial:

"Women with very demanding jobs are nearly twice as likely to have a heart attack as their peers in more easygoing occupations, a new study suggests.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School analyzed 10 years of survey and medical data on more than 17,000 women in the health profession. The women, who were enrolled in a long-running study on heart disease, were all in their 50s or early 60s when the study began.

The women who said their job requires them to work "very hard" or "very fast" but who have little say over their day-to-day tasks -- a combination known as "job strain" -- were 88 percent more likely than those in less-stressful jobs to have a heart attack."

Source:

CNN

URL:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/14/health.job.strain.heart.risk/

Date:

November 14, 2010

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Women still work double shifts

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Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology: Despite an increase in the number of women in the workforce, women still perform the bulk of all household tasks. A shcoking 55% take on the entire workload of the household, compared to 1.4% of men. Furthermore, 33% of men in relationships in which both members work say they do not do "any housework".

Editorial:

"The proportion of the workforce represented by women rose from 20.7% to 41.1% between 1978 and 2002. However, this trend has not resulted in a similar increase in the proportion of men who participate in household tasks. Some 55% of women who are part of a dual earning couple still perform all household tasks. Furthermore, 33% of men do not do anything at home.

"Younger women still carry out a larger amount of unpaid work than men, although in less proportion than older women. The same occurs with education. The lower the level of education, the more likely women are to have more household chores", co-author of the working paper and researcher at the Public University of Navarra (Spain) Salomé Goñi explained to SINC."

Source:

Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology

URL:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/f-sf-wsw102610.php

Date:

October 26, 2010

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Mass Career Customization: Customizing Career Paths to Grow Critical Talent

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05/22/2008

Mass Career Customization:
Customizing Career Paths to Grow Critical Talent

Thursday, May 22, 2008
8:00 – 10: a.m.

The National Council for Research on Women and Catalyst hosted a gathering of executive leaders to explore Mass Career Customization, an innovative approach to talent management.

Featuring Authors of the best-selling business book, Mass Career Customization, Cathy Benko, Vice Chairman and Chief Talent Officer, Deloitte LLP and Anne Weisberg, Director, Deloitte Services LP.

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mass_career_customization_invite.pdf

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Work - Life Balance

Ask A Working Woman Survey 2010: Working America and AFL-CIO

Submitted by jzeilinger@ncrw.org on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 11:40am

Working America and the AFL-CIO recently launched the 2010 Ask a Working Woman survey. A similar survey has been done every 2 years, and in 2008, the survey illicited 12,000 responses - a number Working America and AFL-CIO would like to match this year.

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