The MedicalGeek Professor blog posted a compelling discussion about how medical professionals need work-life balance…not just professional women and working mothers. Wouldn’t you want your doctor, male or female, to feel balanced, fulfilled, and rested?
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Sharon Linstedt for the The Buffalo News Business Today discusses the results of a Working America survey of working mothers. Working America is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. As expected, responses indicate working women want more time with their families. Sadly, due to rising prices, their first desire has changed to extra work/money, and time for families has dropped to #2.

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Hear hear! A personal blog entry by a psychology and education student with four children that describes, in detail, the differences she saw in her boy and girl children. Read it and decide for yourself:

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Sharon Begley writes for Newsweek that women’s studies and feminism are going through a mid-life crisis, and are under attack from all sides. This is a good article, exploring the challenges and opposing opinions about these topics.

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Onrec.com has more to say today: “The majority of working mothers are still frustrated by the lack of flexible working positions available, according to the second annual survey from Workingmums.co.uk.

The poll, which surveyed 1,100 mothers, shows that mothers are hungry for work and often have an impressive range of skills and experience to offer employers but feel that there is a distinct lack of opportunities to utilise them.”

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Onrec.com from the UK has an interesting article today about the importance of, and resistance by employers too, flexibility in the workplace. Everything here applies to the US so I thought you’d be interested.

“Growing numbers of employees want to work more flexibly in order to achieve a better balance between their jobs and the rest of their lives. But while growing numbers of organisations are trying to accommodate their employees’ requests, they are doing it not out of altruism but for good business reasons. Benefits range from increased motivation, productivity and retention, to better customer service and considerable reductions in both costs and CO2.”

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