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Guest Post: A Call for Reform - FMLA Didn’t Work For Me

By on February 11, 2013 in FMLA, Uncategorized

As the 20th anniversary of the Family Medical Leave Act focuses attention on how unnecessarily hard it is to be both a worker and a mother or other family caregiver, Danelle Buchman writes of her own experience. She was a part-time employee at a organization too small to be covered by FMLA when she became [...]

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All Our Problems Solved…Or Not

By on March 26, 2012 in Uncategorized

Journalist Liza Mundy sees a time, in the very near future, when women will earn more than men and the economic shift will transform our mating, marriage, and motherhood patterns. In The Richer Sex, Mundy points out that 4 of 10 wives currently are primary breadwinners, bringing in as much or more than their spouses. Women already [...]

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