I’m excited about Michelle Obama’s plans to help change food policy, but even more thrilled that she is publicly telling working parents that cooking healthful meals on a regular basis is possible, even for those of us who are very busy. As Jane Black writes in The Washington Post:
In interviews and at public events, Obama [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 17, 2009
Dinner Friday: Healthy Convenience Foods
July 16, 2009
He-cession/She-cession: Why We Need To Invest in Women Right Now
The internet is abuzz over the “he-cession,” the term promoted by David Zincenko in USA Today and Reihan Salam in Foreign Policy to describe the disproportionate affects of the recession on men. If you prefer the likes of Christina Hoff Sommers and The Atlantic, you can use their word — “mancession” — to describe the [...]
July 15, 2009
Sounding Off on Jack Welch
I couldn’t let another day go by without talking about Jack Welch’s comments on “work-life balance” at the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Conference. As reported by The Juggle at The Wall Street Journal, Welch said:
“There’s no such thing as work-life balance…There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.” Mr. Welch, a [...]
July 13, 2009
Are Working Parents Giving Their Children as Many Cuddles as Stay-at-Home Parents?
Over the weekend Lisa Belkin’s Motherlode column sparked another round of so-called “mommy wars.” The post discussed a recent study from the Australian Institute of Family Studies indicating that the children of working mothers receive just as much “cuddle time” as those of stay-at-home moms, largely because fathers step in to fill the gap.
I was [...]
July 10, 2009
Women and Work: Feminists in Solidarity with Domestic Workers
Great video from the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
July 9, 2009
Dinner Thursday: Pasta with Summer Squash, Tomato and Garlic
I was bone -tired this week and really had to drag myself to cook. This is where being a part of a CSA or produce delivery service comes in handy. Having a bunch of fresh ingredients in the house made things easy; I didn’t have to think too much about what to make — I [...]
July 8, 2009
The Truth About Part-Time Work
A couple of weeks ago US News and World Report ran this post on The Challenges (and Rewards) of Part-time Work by Sharon Reed Abboud, author of All Moms Work: Short-term Career Strategies for Long-Range Success. Abboud writes that:
Many part-timers are finding that they are actually advancing in their careers. Working as a part-time professional [...]
July 7, 2009
Thinking Beyond The Infant Years
Lisa Belkin at The New York Times‘ Motherlode recently posted this letter from a reader named Anna asking whether she should quit working to stay home with her three-month old daughter. Anna writes:
I returned to work last week, and I already feel like I am missing so much at home. When I lock eyes with [...]
July 6, 2009
Sarah Palin: “My Children Told Me To Do It!”
It’s always tough to see a woman leave politics, even if she isn’t the advocate many of us would choose. Sarah Palin’s resignation brings the number of women governors down to six out of fifty, poor representation of 51% of the population. Women fare just slighly better in congress, representing roughly 17% of seats in [...]
July 2, 2009
Improving Our Lives Through Nature
Wednesday’s Chautauqua Institution speaker was Richard Louv, author of Last Child in The Woods, and founder of the Children and Nature Network. Louv spoke about the decrease in green, free-play spaces in our neighborhoods, urban and suburban, and the effect this is having on children. Research suggests that the ability to play inventively in nature [...]
