Businesses should subsidize child care, says Bob Greene. Companies should tie paid leave to performance reviews, he adds. Men spend more time with their children when they do the caretaking, according to studies. Theirdibetis hard, attacks go down as a result of this investment in women's health and well-being.
“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” needs to move beyond employees’ return to the workplace. Reshma also takes Silicon Valley to task for not diversifying their tech force.
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