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Congress: The most family-unfriendly workplace in America
Keywords: U.S. Congress, Workplace, Work Life Balance, Parenting,
Members of the U.S. Congress lead a lousy life with life split between the capital and their home state location, most are weekend dads or moms. This makes them less likely to grasp the issues of work-life balance and the issues of parenting faced by average working families or couples with both parents working, says this essay in Politico magazine. This is true also of understanding issues facing women and mothers.
Hard to believe but this report points out that Congress in the U.S. does not have a family friendly leave policy and no restroom for women till 2011 on the floor of the House.
Similar issues face women in Japan and other countries for women in parliament.
Former Speaker Ryan says he is tired of being a "weekend Dad." Senator Biden, former vice president says of his commute from Delaware to Washington D.C., he realized that "a child has a thought he wants to share and 12-18 hours later its gone, gone, gone."
U.S. Congress and lack of family friendly leave policies
12/27/2018
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Congress: The most family-unfriendly workplace in America
The Agenda 12/27/2018
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The U.S. is the only country of western developed nations that has no national paid maternity leave. California has introduced paid maternity leave. As a result only 59% of American women enjoy paid maternity leave, according to one estimate. The result is lower labor force participation in the U.S. for women, hurting economic growth, hurting the contribution women can make to business and other sectors of the economy, and to science and technological progress. Claire Cain Miller points this out in this exceptional report in the NYT.
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The Global Flight From the Family
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Japan and working women in business and government- Miyuki Hatoyama and Japan's "male-centred society"
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Melinda Gates on parenting for the iGeneration
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Congress: The most family-unfriendly workplace in America
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A former Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, who has started his own startup Quip, says the culture for mothers of children, working parents and families is not what it should be. He is raising two young children. Mothers at companies in Silicon Valley say they are sometimes the only parent in a team among many 20+ years employees. The culture is not friendly to women and families when it comes to time needed for helping raise a family.
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Hurting economic growth and productivity in America- the lack of paid leave for women
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Women earn 59% of higher education degrees in America, by one estimate. Their contribution to science and technological progress would be higher with paid leave for maternity and other reasons. Participation of women in the workforce is being addressed in Japan and Germany, with calls for better child cares facilities and family friendly workplace policies. Strangely one hears less of this in the U.S. even at a time when participation in the workforce for women is declining along with an overall drop in the labor force participation rate.
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Paid Maternity Leave Is Good for Business
Wall Street Journal 12/19/2014
Can the U.S. Ever Fix Its Messed-Up Maternity Leave System
BusinessWeek 01/18/2015
Would You Rather Be a New Mom in the U.S. or Germany?
Wall Street Journal 03/10/2015
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The New York Times 01/09/2018
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