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Negotiations and Love Songs (Mostly Negotiations)
Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Last week, I published a post about the importance of negotiations in winning the “daddy wars” between fathers and their employers. But the link I provided, as inspiring as it was, didn’t actually give much solid insight into how, exactly, dads are supposed to Fight! For Your Right! To Faaaaaaather! (Apologies to Mike D, MCA [...]
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Negotiations and the Daddy Wars
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
One of my most fundamental beliefs is that we’re coming ever-closer to widespread “daddy wars.” Unlike the mommy wars, which is a media-created fiction in which go-to-work moms and at-home moms are engaged in some sort of rivalry, the daddy wars reflects the growing conflict between fathers and their employers on the exact contours of [...]
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NASCAR and the Down Side of Gender Equity
Posted on24. Feb, 2010 by Brian Reid.
It seems like just yesterday that I was lamenting the continued discrimination against moms and would-be moms, warning that social forces that punished women for having children (or even looking like, maybe, someday, they might have children) would eventually come around and punish guys for the same thing. Not, via the Wall Street Journal, comes [...]