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Showing Original Post only (View all)An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders [View all]
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/an-edict-from-her-majesty-yahoos-ceo-betrays-her-womanhood-and-workers-of-both-genders-677143/This topic has generated a lot of heat, but I knew I needed to find a feminist perspective on this. here is a sample:
"Soon after the news broke about Yahoo's upcoming new policy, news organizations also started reporting that Ms. Mayer, who is a millionaire many times over, brings her baby to her office. He stays in the nursery, which she paid to have built for him.
That Ms. Mayer can't see the message this telegraphs to her employees -- that her family is more important than theirs -- says nothing about her gender and everything about her willful disconnect from the real-life challenges facing not only those who work for her but also most of the rest of America.
And please, don't get me started on what this says to the millions of single working mothers who live paycheck to paycheck and pray the bottom doesn't fall out of their families' lives."
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An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders [View all]
DonCoquixote
Feb 2013
OP
thanks for the neoliberal right-wing perspective. like anyone needed to be reminded.
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#7
Aren't you just the little corpratist. Very nice. How much are they paying you? nt
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#16
I bet you'd be great running a sweatshop....don't forget to chain the doors. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#38
Another admirer of the market who believes they'll be let into the one percent club
Kennah
Mar 2013
#55
Don't you know corporations are expected to employ people to stimulate the economy...
dkf
Mar 2013
#63
So women CEO's can be sociopathic greed-heads just like their male counterparts.
KittyWampus
Feb 2013
#3
as well as the only type of black, asian, native american, gypsy, gay, whatever person who is
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#9
I wonder how giving birth to her little heir to the throne has factored into this n/t
deutsey
Mar 2013
#68
She hired a bunch of people with the understanding that they could work from home
gollygee
Mar 2013
#61
And it will disproportionately affect women. We shouldn't be reducing the number of women
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#25
Then that is a management problem. If there are people underperforming then there are ways
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#26
If the job requires more face to face meetings that should be a job requirement, it seems to me.
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#34
I have similar experience with telecommuting. It isn't efficient in my line of work.
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#48