Tag Archives: childcare
The perennial chestnut: Childcare and interview questions
Interviewers need to clean up their acts on childcare and interview questions We are constantly inundated with soundbites from high-profile women such as Marissa Meyer, Anne- Marie-Slaughter and Sheryl Sandberg who vie for media attention in the business stratosphere. Now we have the ex-CEO of Burberry drifting or jumping into the fray, I’m not sure which. The…
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Children: A corporate inconvenience?
I first wrote a post in 2012 asking are children a corporate inconvenience? I have updated it at intervals ever since. In 2023, I am still asking the same question. Men and women are reporting negative fallout when they wish to assume ongoing responsibility for parenting and childcare. My thoughts were further compounded after reading that women of child-bearing age are…
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