balancing work and family

• For Balancing Work and Family?

Study finds gap between what managers believe and how they behave WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A global survey reveals a growing imbalance between what employers say about work-life balance and what they actually do. Every October since 2003, WorldatWork's Alliance for Work-Life Progress (AWLP) has led a national awareness campaign that promotes work-life effectiveness as a key contributor to productivity and success in the modern workplace. This year the campaign is calling attention to a troubling gap between leaders' beliefs and behaviors at many organizations.

• U.S. Newswire
• September 13, 2011

• Bar lauded for its legal advocacy: members also worry about over-saturation of lawyers and balancing work and family.

More than 74 percent of respondents to a new Bar survey say the Bar is an excellent or good advocate for the legal profession, up from 71 percent two ...

• Florida Bar News
• January 15, 2010

• Balancing Work and Family: How Self-Employed Women Spend Their Time

Over the past several decades, thousands of women have entered the US labor force, many of them in home-based businesses. And with more job losses as the economy slips into recession, more women may be looking for ways to balance family life and financial necessity. Tami Gurley-Calvez, Katherine Harper, and Amelia Biehl set out to examine data about self-employed women's use of their time, in comparison with men and with women wage-and-salary workers. Self-employed women spend 6.4 more hours per week than self-employed men on secondary child care.

• Small Business Advocate, The
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 4, April 2009

• Balancing Family Life and Work

My 4-year-old daughter is a budding doctor. Undeterred by the unpleasant possibility of shots, she looks forward to going to the clinic, enjoys being examined and conducting her own exams whenever her sisters will let her. She has a million questions about the body When our first-grader's school recently held a "science night," with a special session on how the heart works, we jumped at the chance to bring the kids. I hope she and her peers can resolve this seemingly eternal question. We are now well beyond the "gee-whiz" era of women in male-dominated fields. The problem, for women my age, is not getting into jobs once reserved for men, it's how to do those jobs without blowing up from stress once we have children. Unlike previous generations, for Gen Y work-life balance isn't just so...

• Isthmus; Madison, Wis.
• August 26, 2009

• Giving mirth: for todays women writers, balancing work and family is agony. For Jean Kerr, it was an art form.

JEAN KERR WAS THE EPITOME OF THE GREAT gal, back in an era of great gals. With her best-selling book, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, she created a pers...

• Washington Monthly
• Vol. 35 Nbr. 2, March 2003

• Career and Family

... changes in its attitudes toward balancing work and family life. These attitudes have been in...

• Encyclopedia of Small Business
• A-I

• Research and Markets: Balancing Work and Family - a Leader's Guide to Managing the Universal Challenges of Integrating Work and Family.

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bd3c38/balancing_work_and) has announced the addition of the "Balancing Wor...

• Business Wire
• April 26, 2010

• Hilda Solis: Supermoms Wear Blue Collars, Too

As Labor Secretary, I often think about the classic American "supermom." For many, what comes to mind is a busy executive; a woman who can handle a work crisis, a sick kid, a soccer game, and making a meatloaf all at the same time. It seems like magic. And then I think about my mother - a different kind of supermom. With seven children, she sewed, cleaned and cooked in the morning, and worked at a local toy factory at night. Balancing work and family wasn't something she thought about or debated. She just did it. And I had to help. I remember helping my mom cook, clean and even change diapers for my siblings. In many ways, I was her "deputy. All of us want to care for our loved ones. And we want to be good at it. We want to do well at work and care for our families, whether that means ...

• San Gabriel Valley Tribune
• February 17, 2011

• Moms Find Balancing Work and Family Complicated by Outdated Laws; Book Shows Challenges Caused by Labor, Child Care Laws

DALLAS, May 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Who's going to look after my kids while I'm at work, and how am I going to afford it? How can I make it to my child's soccer game or take her to the doctor? These are just a few of the questions today's modern working mothers struggle with. And according to a new book -- Leaving Women Behind: Modern Families, Outdated Laws -- the government is making those choices more difficult. Whether it's the inflexibility of our nation's labor laws or the hurdles for adequate child care, outdated laws make being a working mom more difficult than it should be," said Kimberley Strassel, co- author of the book and editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

• U.S. Newswire
• May 10, 2006

• Achievers Under 40 Profile: Carey Dunkin Baker, President, Ceo, Part- Time Pros

After giving birth to her daughter in August 2007, Carey Baker was faced with the dilemma familiar to a lot of parents - balancing work and family. "My work life has always been such a large part of my identity. I didn't want to lose that part of my life, but I also love being a mother and a wife," Baker said. Knowing she wasn't alone, Baker and her husband, Brett, launched a business the following March aimed at giving parents flexibility in the workplace.

• The Journal Record
• May 26, 2010