Tag: careers
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Leaned in, Screwed Over
As a new mother, I put everything on the line for my job. I wish I hadn’t. Medium, July 22, 2013 Shortly before the end of my maternity leave, I called my boss to discuss my new schedule. We’d agreed that I would work from home two days per week—but which days, we hadn’t decided.…
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Against Work-Life Balance
Parlour, Jan. 10, 2013 “Why should I let the toad work / Squat on my life?” asked the poet Philip Larkin in 1954. Since then, the notion that work and life are more or less antithetical – that work interferes with our enjoyment of “real”, personal or family life – has become entrenched. It has…
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Double Whammy
Would there be more women in architecture if there were more women in development? Architect, Sept. 2012 It was a brownfield site, an old car dealership in New Orleans’s Warehouse District. Five years ago, Angela O’Byrne, AIA, envisioned something more there: a mixed-use, 10-story, carbon-neutral redevelopment, the first of its kind in the city. She…
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