The New Agenda » Blog Archive » Velma Davis Embry: Working Class Hero. My Grandmother, Velma Davis Embry, behind the lunch counter at her first restaurant.
My favorite time of year is upon us as of today: Women’s History Month! The theme for 2011’s Women’s History Month is Our History is Our Strength. p70-125.pdf (application/pdf Object) Magazine - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All. The culture of “time macho”—a relentless competition to work harder, stay later, pull more all-nighters, travel around the world and bill the extra hours that the international date line affords you—remains astonishingly prevalent among professionals today.
Nothing captures the belief that more time equals more value better than the cult of billable hours afflicting large law firms across the country and providing exactly the wrong incentives for employees who hope to integrate work and family. Yet even in industries that don’t explicitly reward sheer quantity of hours spent on the job, the pressure to arrive early, stay late, and be available, always, for in-person meetings at 11 a.m. on Saturdays can be intense. Indeed, by some measures, the problem has gotten worse over time: a study by the Center for American Progress reports that nationwide, the share of all professionals—women and men—working more than 50 hours a week has increased since the late 1970s. Revaluing Family Values.
#MommyHaters. New Feminism. Election 2012.