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Making Work Work: Sliced Bread Design

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by Katrina on June 23, 2014

About six years ago, while I was busy “maxing out” at my full-time job in San Francisco, a friend of mine started freelancing for a company that sounded like a working mom nirvana. It was a small web design firm in Silicon Valley called Sliced Bread. The owners (Julie Stanford and Ellen Siminoff) were good […]

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While the media is abuzz with advice that women should to “lean in” to their careers, many of us are looking for ways to “push back.” In other words, many of us want and need to slow down our careers for periods of time, especially when our children are young. But finding jobs that allow […]

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The lesson of Marissa Mayer

by Katrina on March 1, 2013

Cross-posted on The Huffington Post A whole lot of people are disappointed in Marissa Mayer. We pinned our hopes on her, ever so briefly last summer, when she was hired as the new CEO of Yahoo! while pregnant with her first child. Maybe she would show the world that you could be a devoted parent […]

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