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Patagonia was one of the first American companies to offer on-site child care. They remain among the only ones. In 2008, 9 percent of companies surveyed offered on-site child care, according to the Families and Work Institute. In 2014, just 7 percent did.

Many companies say such work-life benefits are too expensive. But Patagonia CEO Marcario has little patience for companies that don’t support their employees’ ability to live full lives. .

“We support the whole community, as opposed to a few people who do very, very well and enjoy all the perks,” she said. “We’ve figured it out. Seems to me that the rest of corporate America should be able to figure it out, too.”

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A company that profits as it pampers workers – Patagonia takes employee work/life balance to new heights

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Dec 23, 20141 note

An Oral History of the First Cyberfeministsmotherboard.vice.com

VNS Matrix emerged from the cyberswamp during one Australian summer in 1991, on a mission to hijack the toys from technocowboys and remap cyberculture with a feminist bent.

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Women at Work: A Guide for Menwsj.com

Even the most well-intentioned male managers can be clueless when dealing with women in the workplace.

Dec 22, 2014

Shanley Kane of Model View Culture Challenges a “Corrupt” Silicon Valley | MIT Technology Reviewtechnologyreview.com

Shanley Kane challenges the assumptions and practices of the tech industry.

Dec 22, 2014

These 19 London startups are going to change the worldcityam.com

London is the leading city in the world for creating technology for social good, with 19 of the top 100 so-called “tech for good” startups, products and inventions, coming from the capital.

Congrats to Ingrid Karikari, Roxana Bacian, Carrie Bishop and other Ada’s Listers working on Casserole Club for being part of this list!

Dec 19, 2014

“As for the question of whether we brought this treatment upon ourselves by mentioning our two X chromosomes, it is well known people give women on the internet a hard time whether they call attention to their gender or not. And as one redditor says, “Gender neutrality and a push for equal rights is prevalent precisely because men and women have fought for it to become a topic of discussion.””—MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way that Gender Still Matters – Wired

Dec 19, 2014

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Dec 18, 2014

Paid Maternity Leave Is Good for Businesswsj.com

In The Wall Street Journal, Susan Wojcicki writes that when we increased paid leave at Google to 18 weeks, the rate at which new mothers left fell by 50%.

Dec 18, 20141 note

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Women will henceforth make all Wall Street trading decisions.

Men are more prone to financial risk-taking, and overconfidence, and so will be banned from even secondary roles on Wall Street trading desks – though they will be permitted to do whatever damage they would like in their private investment accounts. Trading is a bit like pornography: Women may like it, but they don’t like it nearly as much as men, and they certainly don’t like it in ways that create difficulties for society. Put them in charge of all financial decision-making and the decisions will be more boring, but more sociable.

”—Eight Things I Wish for Wall Street by author Michael Lewis in Bloomberg View

Dec 18, 2014

The Untold History of Women in Science and Technologywhitehouse.gov

Listen to women from across the Administration tell the stories of their personal heroes across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Dec 17, 2014

Facebook’s First Female Engineer Speaks Out on Tech’s Gender Gap | WIREDwired.com

As the first female engineer at Facebook, Sanghvi helped develop two of the company’s more important creations: the iconic Newsfeed and the Facebook Platform. But despite the obvious success of her approach to not only engineering but management, her experience in the tech industry wasn’t without its extreme difficulties.

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