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Women quit breastfeeding early – short maternity leaves to blame?

HealthDay News recently announced that “even through a growing percentage of American moms start their infants on human milk, relatively few continue breastfeeding for the baby’s first six months of life, let alone an entire year.”
One of the reasons is due to maternity leave.  Working women return to work (too?) soon after their baby is [...]

What is job sharing and should you do it?

According to Wiktionary, the definition of “job sharing” is, “an arrangement whereby multiple people are employed on a part-time basis to perform a job normally available to one working full-time.”
Sounds brilliant, right?
Job sharing can be a great thing for someone who wants:

A flexible schedule
To work outside the home part-time
A professional, intellectually stimulating job
To spend part [...]

More Women Wanted in Workforce

Singapore is studying the Scandinavian way-of-life when it comes to luring women into the workforce
An article in The Straits Times, states that Singapore is aiming to reduce its reliance on foreign workers. But, in order to do this, they need more women back to work.
In Singapore only 56 percent of women are part of the [...]