What I would blog about if I was blogging
posted in Celebrity Moms, Child Care, Working Moms |Even though I haven’t posted here in awhile, I have been keeping up on some interesting developments across the blogosphere. Â
- I’ve been following this story on the new mom who was denied a longer break during her medical licensing exam so that she could pump breast milk for her infant daughter.  Apparently judges in Massachusetts are ignoring the PRO- breastfeeding information their counterparts at the Dept of Health and Human Services are putting out. The insanity of our government trying to control how a woman decides to use her body and then denying what they preach will continue to confound me. Thanks to Boston Mommy and Alex for keeping this story going.
- Speaking of breastfeeding, you’ll get a kick out of this Facebook fiasco. They’ve deleted photos of breastfeeding mothers from their site. Outrage has ensued. Meaning 17,000 people joined a protest group. I never was really into any of those social networking sites anyway.
- JUST IN- read this tonight in the New York Times: not surprisingly, a new study that came this week shows that “over the last decade, women have shown some progress in ascending the corporate hierarchy… but… we find that women make up only 2.6 percent of chief executives at Fortune 500 companies.” I have my annual review next month. Wish me luck.
- AND- my friend Susan posted this about a new study that came out from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research about the Working Mother 100 Best Companies for mothers. Only 52 percent of these 100 so-called “best places to work for mothers” provided six weeks or less of paid maternity leave. Twenty four percent of the companies on the list provided four or fewer weeks. Seriously, who is coming up with the criteria for this list? MEN? At least I never put a lot of weight into these lists. No, not when a main reason people get on it in the first place is because a junior-level PR staffer filled out a form correctly or something. I would, however, like to get back to the criteria of this list at some point when I’m blogging again.
Oh, and I had to share this awesome quote from Eva Longoria on whether or not she’d keep working if she had kids. She says:
… it (working) doesn’t mean I would have to stop working. But I would rather take some time off after giving birth and devote myself to being a mom for the early months. Having a child should be a very precious moment in a woman’s life, and I don’t want to worry about showing up on a set at 7:00 in the morning and have a nanny look after my baby during the day… I want to be a very loving and caring mother.
Ah, right, I forgot… those of us who employ nannies are anything but loving and caring. Let’s check back with Eva when that cutie of hers is screaming at 3 a.m.
On that note, back to my black hole of nanny-hunting and non-blogging.
Tags: Eva Longoria, Facebook, breastfeeding, Harvard Medical School,Working Mother, Institute for Women’s Policy Research,
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