Month: March 2013
Earned Sick Time for ALL Oregonians!
People who work in Portland will being earning sick time in January, 2014, thanks to an ordinance passed by the Portland City Council on March 13, 2013. And while that will directly assist about 260,000 Portland workers who don’t currently earn any paid sick time while they work, it doesn’t help the other 320,000 Oregonians who work outside of Portland who won’t be covered by this new Portland policy. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The Maternal Wall
Our good friend and co-founder of MomsRising.org wrote a strong piece in The Washington Post on March 15, 2013 about overcoming the maternal wall. And since a lot folks out there don’t know what that even is, we want to be sure her piece gets around.
Some Thoughts On “Leaning In”
Like many women who follow women’s issues and the increasingly common national work-family policy discussions, we’ve been following the conversation about Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, “Lean In,” and the firestorm of reactions she and it are generating. Of all the feedback we’ve seen, we like these the best: