Friday, December 5, 2014

From here to paternity: how paid leave for dads helps women at work


"I was more professionally ambitious before I had my daughter," says Andrea, a 44-year-old operations manager of a west coast tech firm employing less than 200 people. "But I needed a much more consistent schedule to take care of a baby." It took a while, but she was ultimately able to find a job that was stable, profitable, and respectful of employees' time. "I was afraid for a while that this was a unicorn I'd never find." The downside, as Andrea tells it, "is that it's not growing rapidly like the Amazons and Googles of the world, so there's not really room to move up. That's OK with me now, but I think I would have wanted more when I was 25."


That, in a nutshell, is why the diversity reports released earlier this year by three of...


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