Published on: May 9, 2013 – 1:14 pm
I see NextKids as integration, a way for us to own our own time, working together as well as being closer to our children while they are co playing and co learning.
By Diana Rothschild (Founder + Chief Mom, NextKids)
If you are, like me, one of the millions of working mamas and papas who pull off the amazing juggling act called career and kids, you know that while you can’t really have that vaunted “balance,” you can absolutely have a good work/life integration. For me, “having it all” has always been about having the ability to do my work on my own terms. Right now that means having the opportunity to spend time with my daughter every single day. Read More »
Published on: May 2, 2013 – 9:00 am
Author Lauren Bacon shares her recent talk on how tech can make us not only more productive, but even better, happier people.
By Lauren Bacon (Author, The Boss of You)
Last night, I had the pleasure of speaking to the Vancouver User Experience group (AKA VanUE). The theme was “Inspiration,” so I decided to focus on something that’s preoccupied me for my entire career in tech, which is how we can bring our best selves to technology, and use technology in ways that help us grow and evolve in meaningful ways. Read More »
Published on: April 30, 2013 – 5:00 pm
Yahoo!’s new policy is a huge improvement over most American companies.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0)
We’re happy to hear that future Yahoo! employees will now get double time off for a new baby. A new mother can take up to sixteen weeks of paid leave and a new father can take up to eights weeks. But as a former Google employee, Marissa Mayer probably knows that better still doesn’t match the best policies in the business.
This new policy may spiff up Mayer’s family un-friendly reputation after her now infamous ban on telecommuting - and it will no doubt attract a talent pool, but other technology companies make it even more comfortable for new parents. Read More »
Published on: April 30, 2013 – 12:17 pm
Check out these five women-powered productivity app companies that boost your productivity!
By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0)
Who doesn’t love a good list, especially a list of to-do’s?
Now add the power of new technology to the traditional to-do list and productivity guidelines – and some women entrepreneurs – and you have some real productivity apps! Read More »
Published on: April 30, 2013 – 8:00 am
BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker talks to Women 2.0 about her experiences as a woman in male-dominated fields, and why she thinks women have distinct advantages in tech.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
When it comes to being a rare woman in a male-dominated industry, BlackLine Systems founder and CEO Therese Tucker faces a double whammy. As the founder of a firm that makes accounting software, she travels in both technology and financial circles — both of which are seriously short of women.
So how did she manage to build BlackLine into a rapidly growing company that serves more than 75 Fortune 500 companies with 165 employees? Tucker talked to Women 2.0 about being the only woman in the room, female programmers’ unique approach to software and how she managed to start up with two school-age kids (and no venture capital). Read More »
Published on: April 29, 2013 – 8:00 am
What could be wrong with Sheryl Sandberg’s message to women not to sell themselves short professionally? The Washington Post’s Elsa Walsh explains why she’s ambivalent about Lean In.
By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0)
Here on Women 2.0 we’ve had a lively discussion of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, with women in tech weighing in on their reaction to the book and how they’re putting its lessons to use.
But while many of the nuts and bolts tips on how to navigate the choppy waters of other people’s stereotypes in negotiations or use your body language to convey confidence generate pretty much universal approval for empowering women to reach their professional potential, not everyone is such a huge fan of the exhortation to strive ever higher that’s at the heart of the book. Read More »
Published on: April 24, 2013 – 10:00 am
In Hewlett’s new book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution, she says the reason is that opportunities arise in periods of rapid economic transitions.
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0)
Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In has resurrected that sad fact that women hold only 14% of the top corporate jobs and that number hasn’t changed in a decade. We shouldn’t give up on making this change in the US, but it’s heartening to hear from economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett that in the so-called emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, that women are climbing ahead of American women to the top of corporate leadership. Read More »
Published on: April 24, 2013 – 8:37 am
I tried to get some programming done while Oskar was sleeping and scheduled times with my husband so I would have a couple of hours for SpeedSpiration every now and then. It worked pretty well.
By Diana Kondel (Co-founder, SpeedSpiration)
When I was pregnant last year, I knew that I would have six weeks of paid parental leave before delivery (and more afterwards, though I would obviously be a bit distracted.) I know this is an unlikely scenario in the United States, but in Germany I looked at these subsidized six weeks as time to prepare for the baby – and work on my own projects. Awesome!
In order to find others to work with, I attended the Startup Weekend in Hamburg. Read More »
Published on: April 23, 2013 – 6:00 am
We have come back. Now we design, code, build, develop, create and publish educational apps to teach our kids math, science and reading.
By Ana Redmond (CEO & Co-founder, Infinut)
Katherine and I are misfits in the computer software industry. Liz, a supportive former boss, once told us. “You can solve any software problem you put your mind to.”
Liz had complete faith in us. We both have degrees in computer science. Yet we both ended up stay-at-home moms through the typical trajectory of women in technology: we earned our degrees, worked hard, built a career, had kids, had inflexible jobs, got stressed-out, went part-time, and eventually stopped working altogether. We became the silent statistic and we accepted it and enjoyed being there to raise our children. Read More »
Published on: April 16, 2013 – 9:00 am
Philosophical discussions of the choices of CEO moms are fascinating, but how do executive women in the trenches actually make it work day to day? One founder offers her advice.
By Kakul Srivastava (CEO & Co-founder, TomFoolery)
Though the debates raging about leaning in or installing a nursery in your office have been fascinating to read, they miss the point of helping women (and all parents) figure how to really make it work. Thriving children, ambitious career, happy spouse, and sanity is it really possible to have it all?
As a startup CEO without enormous cash flow, an amazing (but also hard-working) husband, and two adorable (but young) kids, I’ve been juggling this conundrum for some time. My answer yes, absolutely. Read More »
