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Elizabeth Warren Detailed How She Lost a Teaching Job Because She Was Pregnant
Elizabeth Warren, mother, grandmother, senator, and presidential candidate, took to Twitter to share her personal experience with pregnancy discrimination in the workforce.
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In 1971, Warren was finishing her first year of teaching. She was 22 and “visibly pregnant.”
“By June...the principal told me the job I’d already been promised for the next year would go to someone else,” Warren said.
While pregnancy discrimination isn’t always so “in-your-face” in present day, it sti...
Author Mom's Card Game Prevents Mothers from Being the Default Task Handler
Or, as Eve says, the "shefault."
This Fourth-Grader Shut Down a Math Test Question Comparing Girls' Weights
The 9-year-old called the question rude and offensive.
Man Mistakes Colleague's Maternity Leave as a 'Sabbatical' and Twitter Isn't Having It
Words mean things, OK?
VP's Cleaning Lady Mom Didn't Care About Titles. Her Job Was to Raise Smart Kids
After she immigrated to the U.S. from Greece with her three daughters, and her husband died, Maria Xenidou’s mother took a job at a factory. Shortly before she retired, the factory closed down, and almost everyone was laid off. The only job available was a cleaning position in the main office, Maria wrote on LinkedIn. But year after year, Maria and her two sisters excelled at school, more so than the children of Maria’s mom’s higher-ups.
“Every year, the company gave monetary awards to the em...
CEO Dad's Thoughts on Hiring Moms with a Resume Gap Should Become Corporate Policy
Working moms might be "even more determined" than other employees, the dad argued.
A 6-Year-Old Was Arrested for Throwing a Tantrum at School
On September 19, Florida grandmother Meralyn Kirkland received an outrageous phone call from the police regarding her granddaughter Kaia Rolle. She was told the 6-year-old, a first grader at Lucious & Emma Nixon Academy charter school in Orlando, was being arrested.
“What do you mean she was arrested?” Meralyn recalled asking, in an interview with NBC news affiliate WFLA. “[The police officer] said ‘there was an incident and she kicked somebody and she is being charged and she is on her way.”...
The Incredible Ways This Company Stepped Up After a Mom Employee's Young Son Died
The company was there for Tara during a year full of dramatic highs and lows.
Moms on Twitter Shared Their Most Ridiculous and Tragic Medical Expenses
From hundreds of thousands of dollars for children in the NICU, to a doctor who didn't show up (and still charged the patient).
CEO Dad's Post on Wanting His Kids to Fail Will Make Your Work-Life Struggles Worth It
Eric Arnold, a Toronto-based father of four and CEO of financial planning company Planswell, put working parents’ minds at ease by explaining his professional “failures” in a 10-line LinkedIn post—and encouraging his children to fail as well.
I failed at 9 startups. Got fired from two companies. Quit three jobs without notice. Failed out of college. Lost it all on a bad investment... The memories don't fade. I think of them daily. It's how I learned. It's why I can raise millions and scale gl...
Mom's Hilarious Story of Being in a Public Bathroom Stall with Kids Is Scary Familiar
LOL, privacy? What is that?
Mother's Searing Post Begs Exhausted Moms to Stop Making Excuses for 'Shitty' Husbands
Get the partner (and the sleep) you deserve.
Dad Lets Son Wear a Dress to School Like Twin Sister, Has to Pick Up Child for 'Being Distracting'
In a recent post on the subreddit r/AmItheAsshole, a working father turned to the internet to ask if he was the asshole for allowing his second-grade son to wear one of his twin sister’s dresses to school.
Parents' Posts About Losing Son Will Change Your View of Working Motherhood
Losing a child made these parents rethink their relationship to work.
Male CEO Spots Mom Employee Crying at Desk. His Directive Should Become Corporate Policy
Sometimes actions speak louder than words.