This Woman CEO Is Changing The Rules And Building An Empire
This Woman CEO Is Changing The Rules And Building An Empire
Leave it to rule-breaker and multi-tasker Stacey Bendet to totally
get that flexibility is the key to retaining talented women in the
workplace. Love this!!
“Alice and Olivia offers employees eight weeks of maternity leave but
Bendet is focused on employee retention and believes that maintaining a
flexible approach to the policy is critical: “We organize things around
people.” Bendet points to an employee who has Fridays off and she is
open to employees doing what she did – returning to work quickly and
working part time for five months instead of taking eight straight weeks
off. “You have to learn what works best for them,” she emphasizes.
Bendet is proud that 93% of her employees who have had babies return
after to Alice and Olivia after their leave.”
Amazon Adds New Perks for Workers and Opens a Bookstore
Amazon Adds New Perks for Workers and Opens a Bookstore
Go Amazon!! Of course the company that create Amazon Prime would come up such an amazingly progressive parental leave policy.
“On Monday…Amazon employees learned that
birth mothers would now get 20 weeks of leave and fathers would get up
to six weeks. Amazon also announced a flexible return-to-work program
and an ability to share leave with a spouse who does not work for the
retailer. These benefits, the retailer said, “give you more time and
more choice in how to manage your leave in the way that works best for
your family.”
The Efficiency of the Super Freelancer: Why I founded The Second Shift.
Women owned small businesses are killing it.
According to a new study there was a nearly 30% rise in women owned small businesses from 2007-2012. Even better, the rate of revenue generated exceeds male owned small businesses. So, why is it still so much harder for women to start a business? Read the article in the link.
What Happened to Working Women?
What Happened to Working Women?
Gail Collins NY Times Op-Ed has some surprising stats: the number of women in the workforce in the U.S compared to other countries shrunk from 7th to 24th place. Why???
“One of the reasons is clearly, positively, absolutely the cost of child care. It’s
incredible that we’ve built a society that relies on women in the labor
force yet makes no discernible effort to deal with this problem.“
We are often asked why women leave the workforce and the cost of childcare is one of the most frequent reasons.
–The cost of childcare is not worth commuting hours to a job and never seeing my kids.
–Why am I spending so much money to get a babysitter to network to find a job?
–My entire salary is going to pay someone else to care for my children.
These are real concerns, especially when women have small children. They find themselves making the calculation that it is not worth staying in the workforce. Then, once their children reach kindergarten, they have a hard time stepping back into full or even quality part-time work. Until policy on childcare in the country changes, this is going to be an on-going issue for women (disclaimer: this is a particular issue for women who are lucky enough to have the choice. Many women do NOT have the option to leave the workforce.) In the meantime, staying engaged in some capacity in meaningful work is the best way to ensure that women do not give up on their careers.
Welcome to the new Second Shift blog! We are excited to use this forum
to highlight some of the amazing women in our network and the skills
they have to offer other members. This will also be the primary place
where we communicate directly to the network– whether we are searching
for someone with particular skills, telling you about an upcoming event
of feature, or posting interesting articles about working women– stay
tuned and check back often! Thank you for being such an enthusiastic and
supportive audience. We couldn’t have done this without you!