Is a new era born? Yahoo hires CEO… who’s pregnant – Business News – Business...
If an employer can’t ask a woman at a job interview whether she’s planning to have kids, they just won’t hire her. That’s the corporate world according to Lord Sugar, star of BBC TV’s The Apprentice....
View ArticleCurbs on childcare costs unveiled by ministers as it is revealed average...
Ministers will today launch fresh proposals to cut the cost of childcare – as new figures reveal the average family faces a bill of £1,200 this summer. The new childcare commission, set up by David...
View ArticleLORRAINE CANDY: I love my job but not as much as I love a tiny person who...
Every now and again I read a magazine celebrity interview with a quote in it that really surprises me. Not the ‘. . . did I tell you about the time I accidentally slept with Brad Pitt when I was...
View ArticleWhen Miss has to be mother: The teachers forced to feed, clothe and even...
Unlocking the door, I barely had time to put my bag down before a familiar face appeared in the doorway. ‘Hello Miss. You’re late today.’ Lianne bustled in and started helping me to set up the...
View ArticleBear necessities: Mother sets up ‘Return My Ted’ business to reunite children...
It is every parent’s worst nightmare. It often happens following a trip abroad or after a long train journey and there is no solution. But now, an inspired mother has set up an exciting new business...
View ArticleWhat happened when one firm allowed its workers to bring their children to...
For many new parents, returning to work is a blessed relief from the rigours of 24/7 childcare. The only problem being, of course, that most of the money you earn is quickly deposited into the bank...
View Article‘Supermum’ is on the move – Business News – Business – The Independent
City “supermum” Laura Carstensen is leaving the Competition Commission in a move that seemingly rules her out of taking over the anti-trust regulator’s powerful successor body. Mrs Carstensen, a former...
View ArticleRewind TV: Babies in the Office; Wallander; David Tennant on Hamlet |...
“If someone brought this up in the pub, you’d just go… what a stupid idea,” said one of the very few cynics (all men) splendidly determined not to play the game of the experiment featured in Babies in...
View ArticleDo Marissa Mayer’s maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? | The...
The newly appointed Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, is under attack for failing women, by indicating that the impending birth of her child won’t stop her doing her job. “I like to stay in the rhythm of...
View Article4 Reasons Why Recruiters Should Stop Accepting Traditional Resumes
Sudy Bharadwaj is a co-founder and the CEO of Jackalope Jobs, a job seeker focused platform making the job search social, fast and easy. Learn how Sudy and Jackalope Jobs obsess over job seekers by...
View ArticleThe mothers of Africa | Afua Hirsch | The Guardian
I am usually greeted with surprise when I tell people in the UK that I have moved to Ghana with my one-year-old baby. They tend to question why I would want to raise a child in the capital Accra, the...
View ArticleMiddle aged mother-of-three and ex-convent girl reveals how she beat the...
Like many women Scarlett O’Kelly was hit hard by the recession; she became jobless, hopeless and mired in debt. But as a single mother of three facing financial meltdown, she did what many woman would...
View ArticleFiona Bruce admits feeling ‘a lot of guilt’ over motherhood – Telegraph
Bruce, who is mother to Sam, 14, and Mia, ten, said she would like to see more of them and feels “guilty about a lot of things, a lot of the time”. In a newspaper interview today, she confessed: “The...
View ArticleSamantha Cameron: It was my fault we left Nancy in pub – Telegraph
David Cameron bore the brunt of the public blame when his daughter Nancy was left in a pub earlier this year, but his wife Samantha has confessed it was in fact her fault. Neither parent realised the...
View ArticleGirls can learn from athletes, not Louise Mensch – Comment – Evening Standard
After the celebrations of the limitless possibilities for women evoked by the Olympics, the resignation of Louise Mensch as an MP seems a bit of a downer. Perhaps women can reach the top — so long as...
View ArticleHow modern parents give in to children’s demands and buy them all the latest...
Parents today are succumbing to their children’s demand for gifts and gadgets whenever they ask for them. The ‘Generation Give-In’ style of parenting has been embraced by mums and dads who feel guilty...
View ArticleWorking mums healthier than stay-at-home mothers – Telegraph
A study found that supermums who ‘have it all’ and work full time are more healthy than those who stay home, work part time or have recently been made unemployed. Researchers from the University of...
View ArticleForbes’ most powerful women list: it’s all about the money | Rhiannon Lucy...
How does one go about defining a powerful woman? Forbes has an annual bash at it with its World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list, the latest of which is published today. The results are often a mixed bag...
View ArticleHaving it all? More like doing it all, says frazzled mothers struggling to...
If you’re a woman under 50, chances are you grew up being told you could ‘have it all’. In reality, however, you’re more likely to be doing it all. Most mothers are struggling to juggle their careers...
View ArticleOne in 10 adults working full-time worried about feeding their families – UK...
A tenth of full-time working adults are worried about providing three nutritious meals a day for their families, according to a Salvation Army study. The poll, to establish whether social issues have...
View ArticleThe highs and lows of being a teacher-parent | Teacher Network Blog |...
Before having children, when I was a full-time class teacher, I’d quite harshly put parents into categories. They weren’t ones which I’d talk about out loud of course, indeed even my normally...
View ArticleWaitress says boss BANNED her from pumping breast milk at work because it was...
A 28-year-old waitress from Seal Beach, California, said a manager at the restaurant where she works has denied her the right to pump breast milk while on the job because he deemed the act...
View ArticleJobless mothers given the chance to become tycoons of tomorrow – Dispossessed...
Women who have never had their own incomes are being offered the prospect of financial independence, thanks to the Evening Standard’s award-winning Dispossessed Fund. The Women’s Empowerment Project in...
View ArticleMotherhood comes first for actress Anne-Marie Duff – Telegraph
Last week she won critical acclaim for her performance in the BBC drama The Accused with Olivia Colman, but for Anne-Marie Duff, motherhood is her most important role. John Sessions says Duff turned...
View ArticleAre working mothers healthier and happier? How juggling career and children...
Women who return to work shortly after starting a family have better mental and physical health than those who opt to stay-at-home, according to research. Experts from the University of Akron and Penn...
View ArticleWhat is women’s work? | The Observer
Married women aren’t banned from working these days, as they were 100 years ago, and their husbands don’t feel demeaned by it, but I suspect that even now work that isn’t based on traditional male...
View ArticleChildren with working mothers at greater risk of obesity even if father is a...
Children with working mothers are at greater risk of obesity even if their father is a stay-at-home parent, according to experts. Previous findings have shown that youngsters whose mothers are in...
View ArticleI do everything around the home. Does it have to be this way? – Telegraph
I love my husband but I’m becoming increasingly frustrated by the extent to which I am the one who, despite working full-time, has to run the home and our children’s lives. He just doesn’t seem to...
View ArticleShould I admit to being pregnant in a job interview? | Money | guardian.co.uk
On Friday and Monday we publish the problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Guardian Money supplement, so readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We...
View Article75% of new mothers would stay at home to bring up their child if they could...
Three out of four new mothers would stay at home to bring up their child if they could afford to, a report said yesterday. A traditional family – with a breadwinning father and a full-time mother –...
View ArticleQuarter of parents ‘too busy to play sport with children or take them to...
A quarter of parents are too busy with work to take their children to sports classes and training sessions, according to a new report. Their long working hours are blamed for kids’ failure to do enough...
View ArticleSpending too much time at work when their children are young is a parent’s...
Spending too much time at work is the biggest regret parents have about their children’s early years, according to a study. It found more than three quarters have at least one thing they regret doing -...
View ArticleMy children don’t need the au pair any longer. But I darn well do | Mail Online
For the past hour I’ve been sitting in a dark room with a damp flannel on my forehead, trying to coax my pulse rate back to normal. The reason? My au pair cornered me in the kitchen with a portentous:...
View ArticleRegrets? Show me the working mother who has none – Telegraph
Regrets, I’ve had a few, then again, too few to – all right then, if you insist, for the purposes of your statistically significant poll of parents. In no particular order; I regret shaving my legs,...
View ArticlePart-time women doctors are a ‘risk’ to NHS – Telegraph
The structure of the workforce is changing fast, and medical schools are already turning out more female graduates than males. At the moment 57 per cent of registered doctors in Britain are men, but...
View ArticleMothers now make 19 trips to the supermarket a month | Mail Online
The days of making a big weekly splurge on supermarket goods is well and truly over after it emerged that mothers now make 19 dashes to the supermarket every month. Research revealed hectic schedules,...
View ArticleClaire Sweeney, 41, opens up about suffering from ‘emotional infertility’ but...
She became a household name after appearing in a popular soap opera at the age of 20 and has barely stopped working since. But for actress Claire Sweeney, her two decades of success on stage and screen...
View ArticleKeira Knightley: I won’t be a stay-at-home mother – Telegraph
Posing in a Chanel white feather wedding dress, Keira Knightley makes a stunning bride-to-be. The actress recently announced her engagement to James Righton, a musician with the rock band Klaxons....
View ArticleSoldier has baby on the frontline: Doctors sent from the UK as Army girl –...
A British soldier who did not know she was pregnant has given birth on the frontline. The woman had a son in Camp Bastion on Tuesday – just days after the Taliban launched a deadly attack on the UK’s...
View ArticleTim Loughton: Male MPs struggle to balance family and politics just like...
MPs have complained that the House of Commons is still not ‘family friendly’ despite a change to its working hours which will see debates wind up earlier in the evening. Tim Loughton, a former...
View ArticleNow you see it, now you don’t: Marissa Mayer’s missing baby bump on magazine...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer became a parent for the first time on Sunday, giving birth to a healthy baby boy. However the new mogul mother is the cover star of Fortune magazine’s current issue, out on...
View ArticleTiming is everything! Female bosses at their most fertile are less likely to...
Pretty women approaching female bosses for a pay rise should take caution over their timing – catching their superior at the wrong time of the month could make a big difference. Women become far more...
View ArticleMaternity leave law has problems that won’t be solved by adding dads
Women beware! Across the political spectrum, a consensus has broken out on the joys of maternity leave. And now the latest twist to "family-friendly" law is to encourage fathers to share the leave, if...
View ArticleMothers who return to work treated like ‘subspecies’
Mrs Vere told The Times that women who take a career break to have children are regularly treated like “some kind of subspecies” when they attempt to return to the workplace. “There’s this feeling...
View ArticleMums going back to work forced into junior roles and earning £9,500 less
Mums going back to work are being pushed into junior roles and earning less money, a new report suggests, with most taking a financial hit of £9,500. A study of working mums revealed that 65 per cent...
View ArticleBaby boom: Catch-up generation of older mothers delay having children for...
England’s baby boom is being driven by a triple whammy of immigration, recession and thousands of older mothers anxious to have families before it is too late, an official analysis said today. It...
View ArticleTrue cost of ‘Mummy tax’: How 340,000 women will lose £156 in maternity pay...
Some 340,000 women are set to lose £156 in maternity pay thanks to the government’s plans to impose a ‘mummy tax’. An impact assessment of the Coalition’s plans to cap benefit rises at 1 per cent...
View ArticleJoJo Maman Bebe finds High Street success opening where ‘yummy mummies’ live
Mother and baby brand JoJo Maman Bebe has found success on the high street by targeting areas with a high proportion of mothers with pre-school children. Founder Laura Tenison opened 11 new stores last...
View ArticleMind the generation gap: 3 mother-daughter pairs discuss their career paths –...
Naomi Bloomstein and her mother Goody Khan Naomi, 39, is the founder of the family-deals website littlebird.co.uk, and works full-time. She lives with her husband Sam and their sons, Ollie, 10, and...
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