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☆ Parents say flexible work leads to productivity, fulfillment and relief—but 1 in 3 worry about it resulting in a career hit
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Jennifer Liu | In Jljenniferliu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But by the time she had her second daughter 7 months ago, the world was used to remote work. In the three years since the business world was forced to embrace flexible work during Covid, parents say the ability to work remotely and hybrid has been a lifeline. More than half, 58%, of working parents say increased flexibility in their schedules is a source of "fulfillment and relief," according to a recent report from Bright Horizons, which surveyed over 2,000 working parents in the spring. Stephen Kramer, CEO of Bright Horizons, says pandemic-era empathy for working parents has subsided. All employees can benefit from a work environment that's thoughtful about the remote work experience, Kramer says.

Persons: Neha Mehrotra, Mehrotra, Covid, Stephen Kramer, Kramer, It's, they're, Gen Z Organizations: CNBC, PayPal, Bright Locations: New York, Sweden, India

☆ Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, the Carter Center has announced
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Rosalynn Carter has dementia, the Carter Center announced Tuesday. The former first lady remains at home with her husband Jimmy Carter, who entered hospice care earlier this year. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyATLANTA (AP) — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia and remains at home, her family has announced. Carter, now 95, remains at home with former President Jimmy Carter, who has been at home receiving hospice care since early this year. The family noted in its statement that Rosalynn Carter spent her long public life advocating for individuals and families affected by mental illness and for those in caregiving relationships with loved ones.

☆ Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is diagnosed with dementia
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Blayne Alexander | Dareh Gregorian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary with friends at Plains High School, within the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in Plains, Georgia, U.S. July 10, 2021. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has dementia, the Carter family said Tuesday. The announcement, which was released by the Carter Center, comes as Carter's husband, former President Jimmy Carter, is receiving hospice care at their home in Plains, Georgia. In February, the Carter Center announced that Jimmy Carter, 98, had begun receiving hospice care at home. Jimmy Carter is the oldest living former president and was the first president born in a hospital.

Persons: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn, Rosalynn Carter, Carter, Mrs, Jason Carter Organizations: Plains High School, Historical, Carter, Carter Center Locations: Plains , Georgia, U.S, Plains

☆ Meet a 24-year-old who realized corporate life wasn't for her. She now makes $58,000 as an innkeeper, has her rent subsidized, and has plenty of time to paddle board on the lake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She likes interacting with guests and is happy she didn't end up in a corporate job. "I was looking for a corporate job just because that's what everybody in my life who didn't go to grad school did," she said. She told Insider she makes around $58,000 and part of her rent is covered, as she has employee subsidized housing. Are you a Gen Zer or recent graduate who found a job outside of a 9-to-5 corporate job? Are you a worker that left a corporate job?

☆ As Broadway Rebounds, ‘Some Like It Hot’ Gets 13 Tony Nominations
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The nominations for “Ain’t No Mo’” were especially striking given that the show struggled to find an audience and closed early. “I’m just so elated, I can barely find the words,” said Cooper, who was nominated both as writer and actor. He is now 85 years old, and “Leopoldstadt” is his 19th production on Broadway. Stoppard said he was proud of the nomination, but sorry the play had come to seem so timely at a moment of rising concern about antisemitism. “Nobody wants society to be divided,” he said in an interview, “and I like to think ‘Leopoldstadt’ works against a sense of human beings dividing up and confronting each other.”

☆ For Babies Born Dependent on Opioids, Doctors Try New Caregiving Approach
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Julie Wernau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A caregiver feeding a tiny patient at Hushabye Nursery, which cares for babies in opioid withdrawal. Photo: Matt Martian for The Wall Street JournalThousands of babies are born each year to mothers who are using opioids. The newborns enter the world in withdrawal—some fussy and sweating, others struggling to feed. The treatment, until recently, was to separate the babies from their mothers, start them on morphine, and keep them isolated for days or weeks of intensive care.

☆ For Babies Born Addicted to Opioids, Doctors Try New Caregiving Approach
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Julie Wernau | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Opinion | Dads Still Get Extra Leisure Time. Moms Are Still Subsidizing It.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The only marriage type where husbands devote more time to caregiving than their wives is one in which the wife is the sole breadwinner. In those marriages, wives and husbands spend roughly the same amount of time per week on household chores. (A subsequent reform in 2002 that allowed an additional nontransferable month was not found to lead to more separations.) The cultural hurdles women face at home overlap with hurdles women face in the workplace. First, she told me that she’s done the math based on time-use data and found that women are, in effect, doing about an extra month of unpaid labor a year, while men get an extra month of leisure.

☆ Women are now out-earning or making the same as their husbands in nearly half of marriages
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In almost half of opposite-sex marriages in the U.S., women are now earning the same as their husbands — or out-earning them, by an average of $53,000. Spouses are earning the same income in nearly one-third, or 29%, of opposite-sex marriages, a significant jump from just 11% in 1972. In egalitarian marriages, men and women's earnings are almost identical: In 2022, the median earnings for wives in such marriages was $60,000, while husbands earned $62,000. About 16% of opposite-sex marriages in the U.S. have a breadwinner wife, up from 5% five decades earlier, Pew reports. Women continue to bear the brunt of household responsibilities, even as financial contributions have become more equal in opposite-sex marriages.

☆ CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Clearlink CEO James Clarke said remote workers "quietly quit" and didn't open laptops in a month, Vice reported. A representative didn't address the remarks, but said Clarke "could not be more excited" for the company. Clearlink's CEO James Clarke reportedly told employees that he believed many remote workers have "quietly quit" and become so brazen that dozens at his company "didn't even open" their laptops for a month. "And those were all remote employees, including their manager — for a whole month." Clearlink is a private company with 800 employees, a company representative told Insider.

☆ CEO questions whether parents who are primary caregivers are being ‘fair’ to employers and children
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN —A Utah CEO who is demanding that many of his remote employees start working in the company’s offices says staff members must make sacrifices, and questions whether people who serve as primary caregivers for their children, specifically working mothers and single mothers, are doing right by both their employers and their children. The remarks at a company town hall by James Clarke, CEO of digital marketing and technology company Clearlink, have gone viral with posts of an edited version of the comments on Reddit and YouTube. Clarke suggested that full-time child care and full-time work could not be balanced. This has hit working mothers equally as hard, I would argue. “It can be done, but it adds so much stress to a working mother’s life that I would never want to put that on anyone,” he said.

[1/7] U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on childcare and eldercare costs during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 18, 2023. Biden signed the order, which includes over 50 specific actions, in the White House Rose Garden, flanked by family caregivers, people with disabilities, older adults and early childhood and long-term care workers. "The executive order doesn't require any new spending. The executive order was also welcomed by AARP, a major lobbying group for older Americans, and the AFL-CIO, the largest U.S. labor organization. Heather Boushey of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) told reporters that childcare and eldercare shortages and soaring costs limited the ability of many women to work, constraining labor supply and dampening economic growth.

☆ Biden signs executive order expanding access to dependent care aid as he gears up for 2024 bid
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Emma Kinery | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In more than 50 executive actions, Biden is asking nearly every federal agency to expand care options without new spending. "And folks, care workers deserve to make a decent living and that's a fight I'm willing to have." The White House faces steep opposition to many of the social-spending proposals in the Republican-controlled House. Even before the pandemic in 2019, 76% of parents reported struggling to access affordable, dependable care, the White House said. The White House has long maintained that Biden's social-policy agenda is highly popular with the American public despite conservative gripes over costs.

☆ Bosses hate work from home because 'home' is for women
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

And the old way was clear: The office is for work, and the home is for — well, for whatever unpaid stuff it is that women do while their men are at work. Skeptical that work — real work — could be done at home, bosses quietly penalized the women who opted for flexible schedules by sticking them with boring assignments and denying them promotions. Embracing remote work is a good start, but it comes with risks of its own. Since the pandemic hit, I've heard a few CEOs liken remote work to opening Pandora's box. Women working from home are no longer the aberration — tradition-bound executives are.

☆ Look for these 5 'green flags' before taking a 4-day workweek job, says hiring expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

There's never been a better time to try to find a job with a four-day workweek. It can also be helpful to ask about the skills and experiences help someone thrive while working a shortened week. For example, leaders at four-day workweek companies recently told CNBC Make It they look for candidates with outstanding initiative, autonomy and adaptability. The company sets clear expectations around the fifth day offAsk each person how they use their day off, Salemi says. The company has a strong perspective of what flexibility looks likeA shortened workweek is just one component of workplace flexibility.

☆ One chart shows how many more hours married women spend on housework than their husbands in 5 different types of opposite-sex marriages
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Pew Research Center compared the hours opposite-sex married couples spend on housework and caregiving. The chart below shows the average time spent per week on housework and caregiving duties for five different kinds of income arrangements for opposite-sex marriages. Wives in these wife-primary-earner marriages spend about 11 hours a week on housework and caregiving compared to their husbands' almost 8 hours a week. 57% of US adults said American society values the "contributions men make at work." Men and women pretty much said the same thing — 55% of men and 58% of women answered this way.

☆ When I worked at Uber it was painfully obvious that too many of our women employees had to quit to raise kids. I started a childcare insurance company to fix that.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Siran Cao is the co-founder of Mirza, a platform for employer-sponsored childcare insurance. Siran CaoMy mandate was to onboard tens of thousands of drivers really, really, quickly. Even at a well-funded tech company like Uber, though, what struck me was how childcare became a daily operational disruption. The data shows that women who take just one a year off earn 39% less overall than women who don't. While women continue to quietly bear the bulk of this work, I don't believe this is solely women's issue.

☆ More women now make as much as their husbands, but still do more at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Few women will be surprised to learn that even when wives earn about the same as their husbands or more, a new Pew Research Center study finds that they still spend more time on housework and child care, while their husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure. In these marriages women earn a median of $88,000 to their husbands’ $35,000. Women most likely to be the biggest earnerToday, which women are most likely to be the primary or sole breadwinners can vary by age, family status, education and race. For instance, Pew found Black women are “significantly more likely” than other women to earn more than their husbands. For instance, 26% of Black women bring home more than their husbands, while only 17% of White women and 13% of Hispanic women do.

☆ More women are out-earning their husbands, but still picking up a heavier load at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Jessica Dickler | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

watch nowMore women are becoming breadwinners, but the division of labor at home has barely budged, a new report found. Women are achieving increasing levels of education, making them more likely to out-earn their husbands, according to Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew. But as women's financial contributions increase, they still pick up a heavier load when it comes to household chores and caregiving responsibilities, the report also found. Age, race and family size also play a role, the Pew report found, with Black women more likely to be the breadwinners, as well as older women and women without children. In marriages where husbands and wives earn about the same, women spend roughly 2 hours more a week on caregiving and about 2½ hours more on housework, according to the Pew data.

DEI executive Netta Jenkins says women typically overlook their 401(k) match or family care benefits. Jenkins adds that women of color are less likely to trust HR and speak openly about their benefits. Here are three workplace benefits that Jenkins says women often overlook — and how to take advantage of them. Expense reimbursementsJenkins adds that expense reimbursements, like the cost of parking or travel, can cause friction for women in the workplace — especially women of color. Some women of color care for both.

☆ The U.S. Built a European-Style Welfare State. It’s Largely Over.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Alicia Parlapiano | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

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☆ Deloitte's chief purpose officer says he's pushing execs to think differently about change in corporate America
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Josée Rose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Kwasi Mitchell, Deloitte's chief purpose officer, says he's driven, not overwhelmed, by his job. As Deloitte's first chief purpose officer, his reach across corporate America is great. I had a conversation with my boss at that time, and he said, "We've heard you with respect to your concerns on not wanting to step into this role right now. Not only were we not worried about D&I efforts being cut, organizations didn't have significant D&I programming to cut to begin with. That person that you just hired two years ago should not be the first person to exit your organization.

☆ 'Over-mentored and underfunded': The biggest challenges facing AAPI women-owned businesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

More than two million businesses in the U.S. are owned by Asian Americans or Pacific Islanders, according to the Asian/Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce. As of 2020, the most recent year for which federal government data is available, 171,400 businesses were owned by Asian American women and 2,600 by Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women. Despite the unique challenges this group must deal with, data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women is "limited and fragmented at best," the center added. If the wage gap fails to close, the NWLC estimates that AAPI women working full-time, year-round stand to lose $267,000 over the course of a 40-year career. Entrepreneurship is a valuable pillar for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women to build wealth, but they still face challenges getting fair access to capital and other barriers to success.

Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThere's one group of people that's being disproportionality hurt by high inflation: women. First, a jump in child care prices has started to pressure women out of the workforce. Child care inflation, which has increased 214% from 1990 to 2022, has outpaced average family income gains, which have risen 143%. Surprisingly, over 50% of parents spend over 20% of their income on child care in the US." Women and minorities are underrepresented in higher-wage industries, such as technology or finance, that are more insulated from inflation pressures, Gosai noted.

☆ The No. 1 thing women really want at work: 'It boils down to 2 words,' according to 800 executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Carolyn Childers | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rising burnout rates, an ongoing childcare crisis and lingering effects of the pandemic have forced thousands of women to reevaluate their relationship with work. As the CEO and co-founder of Chief, a network focused on supporting and connecting women, I've seen how high-performing women have been affected by all these factors. There's a huge disconnect between what employers think women need versus what they really want, according our survey of more than 800 executive women. So what will really keep women from quitting? Offering the option of remote work, for example, doesn't guarantee that women who take advantage of it won't be passed over for stretch assignments or be left out of project conversations.

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