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"[This other mom] knows that I do not work outside the home. This day, she suddenly asked, smiling and sweet, ‘Can I ask what you do all day?’ Here it was, to my face, the very question that I had become suspicious people were asking about me in their heads, or even aloud behind my back. Now that I wasn’t home with babies-turned-toddlers, changing diapers and sharpening crayons, I had come to find that, in the words of Ricky Ricardo, this Lucy had some ‘splaining to do."
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Jessica Stolzberg, a stay-at-home mom, on how others react to her choice to stay a full-time mom after her kids are in school 

Stay-at-home mom bullied, at the bus stop (Salon) 

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Nov 08, 2013
"For me, this also underlines the fact that balancing work and family is not to be branded a “women’s” issue, but it is a challenge that all parents, or other carers, face."
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Lauma Skruzmane, Associate solicitor, Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer

Citymothers – Lauma Skruzmane: In my City law firm, work-life balance isn’t just a ‘women’s issue’ (Telegraph)

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Aug 12, 2013
Soccer Isn’t for Girly-Girls? How Parents Pick the Sports Their Daughters Play (The Atlantic) “ Unlike masculinity, multiple forms of femininity are seen as acceptable by parents and by children, so it’s not surprising that different gender scripts...

Soccer Isn’t for Girly-Girls? How Parents Pick the Sports Their Daughters Play (The Atlantic)

Unlike masculinity, multiple forms of femininity are seen as acceptable by parents and by children, so it’s not surprising that different gender scripts emerged for each of the three activities. The names of these different gender scripts–“graceful,” “aggressive,” and “pink”…help us understand how parents choose among different activities for their daughters.

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Aug 06, 2013
Pakistan’s New Hero Burka Avenger (AP) “ Meet Burka Avenger: a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills who uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls’ school where she works....

Pakistan’s New Hero Burka Avenger (AP)

Meet Burka Avenger: a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills who uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls’ school where she works. Sadly, it’s a battle Pakistanis are all too familiar with in the real world.

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Jul 25, 2013
"We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream."
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Megan Smith, Vice President of Google[x], responding to How about women in tech by 2020. Will these changes help get more women involved in the industry?

Read The Future According To Megan Smith at Forbes

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Jul 24, 2013
There Is Not a Legislative Fix for Every Work-Life Balance Problem

slate.com

There Is Not a Legislative Fix for Every Work-Life Balance Problem

Nelson also says she doesn’t blame women who “leave work because they are tired of spending their entire paycheck on childcare.” But as I’ve pointed out before, a husband and wife are both in need of child care—why should a woman frame it as her expense alone?

Jessica Grose, Slate

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Jul 20, 2013

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