Why aren’t there more female superheroes?
My friend, former housemate, and female superhero herself, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, is making a film about it. Watch the trailer, which includes interviews with Gloria Steinem, Lynda Carter, and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman):
If you like what you see, donate to the Kickstarter campaign so she can finish the film.
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What’s up with Democrats criticizing Michelle Obama for encouraging women to breastfeed?
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Last but not least, travel the world, country by country, burger by burger. Your tour guide is a working mom who worked her ass off in corporate America for 20 years before deciding to be home with her kids.
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My favorite quote from the Post article:
“And the federal government is now one of the biggest buyers of baby formula, through its nutritional programs for women and infant children. So giving a tax break for breast-feeding might actually help reduce government spending, as Ms. Bachmann advocates.”
HA!
thanks for the shout out Katrina. best decision I ever made (aside from marrying Paul and having children) was to stay home and raise my children myself. I urge all my friends who envy me to sit down, make a spreadsheet and really figure out how much work costs them financially – you’d be amazed. we cut our income in half and we’re still able to come out to california for a visit this spring. look at your expenses, what would go away without work and what can you live without?
I hope more women will demand schedules that work or leave entirely – then maybe corporate America will wake up. btw, i was working at one of the top 100 places to work in America – due to supposed family friendliness. The concrete example they gave was half day Fridays – can i tell you how many Fridays i actually took as a half day? good guess, not many. the company had no maternity leave policy (except for ST disability – how insulting, i wasn’t disabled, i had a baby), no daycare, almost no part-time/flex time, extremely long hours and lots of travel. it wasn’t a terrible place, in fact i liked working there, but i could never achieve family work balance there. Do any of your readers work somewhere where they feel they can?
@Jennifer C. Yeah, I laughed at that part, too.
@Shel You’re welcome! As for your question about anyone who has achieved work life balance, I think I have for the moment, but I’m self-employed. Not sure that even counts. I’d love to hear if anyone feels they’ve achieved this in a corporate environment…
Katrina, at least your employer understands what it’s like to be a working mom!
Yes, it’s true, but she’s such a slave driver!
Thank you for the Michelle Obama article. Being one of the working moms who pumps breast milk at work while trying to do my full time job in time to leave 10 minutes early to get to daycare in time, I happen to be too busy to stay up on the news. But this is just surreal. Am I reading this correctly that democrats are suggesting that a tax break on the obscenely expensive breast pump for the women who brave the humiliation and extra stress (as if there weren’t enough stress involved with going back to work with an infant at home) to pump their milk is not supportive of working moms because some can’t pump because they aren’t provided with a place of the scheduling accommodations for it? Can I deduct the breast milk storage bags I spend about $100 a month on too? Unbelievable!
I think you are reading it correctly, Pauline. And it is ridiculous and surreal. I don’t know about the breast milk storage bags. But they should be deductible if they’re not. I’ve only heard about the pumps.