YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Wants to Be Asked About Her Business, Not Her Kids
Why is it male CEOs are not asked how they have kids and high power jobs? Susan Wojcicki says implicit in the question about her balancing 5 kids and a job is a double standard that demeans women and assumes they “should” be at home. Agree? Disagree? Food for thought.
Thank you Katie Rosman and the NY Times for highlighting the Second Shift and the amazing women and businesses we work with. The response to this article is so positive and we just want to clarify one thing that seems to be confusing– our members are all over the country and the majority of the work is remote. ****We are not location specific***
Startup Advice from One of the Most Influential Women in Tech
We like Jessica Livingston from Y Combinator’s advice about balancing work and personal life– outsource! There are so many great apps that can help create some space for a personal life and family life outside of work. We particularly like/ use the following:
Instacart for Whole Foods home delivery.
Uber for moving everyone in the family where they have to go, often at the same time!
Etsy for Pinterest perfect party decor and favors and just-like homemade Halloween costumes.
Postmates for food delivery and so much more–Co-Founder Jenny Galluzzo was once home alone with her kids working when her computer plug broke. She hired a Postmate to go to the Apple Store and replace the cord and was back at work within the hour.
Boxed for when you just can’t make it to Costco but really need bulk Popchips and paper towels.
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
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.”
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.
