Female company president apology to working moms

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what to make of this. This female exec tells that she rolled her eyes at working moms, scheduled last minute meetings at end of day without considering moms have to pick up kids from daycare....until she had her own kid.

now she started her own company for working moms and apologizes to moms for her past behavior.

http://www.today.com/parents/female-company-president-katharine-zaleski-apologizes-working-moms-powerful-fortune-2D80527330

Here are my thoughts:

So, you can't see past your own experiences and now want to be rewarded for it?

Good marketing for your new company - you mention it often enough.

In this day and age, shouldn't it be working moms AND DADs?

Not sure I buy into this whole thing.

[Anonymous]

Op - if you only want to see the negatives, you will never "buy into" anything positive.

[Anonymous]

I just think it's a big publicity stunt.

[Anonymous]

I think that many (not all) have gone through this evolution. Though, it doesn't really help afterwards. Having the recognition before you're a #$%@# to your female coworkers and subordinates is what is needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what to make of this. This female exec tells that she rolled her eyes at working moms, scheduled last minute meetings at end of day without considering moms have to pick up kids from daycare....until she had her own kid.

now she started her own company for working moms and apologizes to moms for her past behavior.

http://www.today.com/parents/female-company-president-katharine-zaleski-apologizes-working-moms-powerful-fortune-2D80527330

Here are my thoughts:

So, you can't see past your own experiences and now want to be rewarded for it?

Good marketing for your new company - you mention it often enough.

In this day and age, shouldn't it be working moms AND DADs?

Not sure I buy into this whole thing.

I don't see the problem with her recognizing her past mistakes and trying to atone for them. Maybe it is a publicity stunt but I appreciated reading it because it made me think of similar things I might have done. I definitely wasn't thoughtful about my discrimination when I was younger but I can recall silently judging parents (moms and dads) for leaving work early for events, the time they took off for maternity/paternity leave, etc. I just didn't get it until I had kids. And this goes for a lot more than just judging people in the workplace. So shouldn't she be able to apologize and try to make good on her mistakes?

[Anonymous]

I judge parents all the time. We have two nannies to make sure that childcare is always covered. If you aren't ready to juggle work and kids hen don't have them! The other folks in the office shouldn't have to pick up your slack. This goes for men and women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I judge parents all the time. We have two nannies to make sure that childcare is always covered. If you aren't ready to juggle work and kids hen don't have them! The other folks in the office shouldn't have to pick up your slack. This goes for men and women.

is this your standard answer for parents making minimum wage? just hire two nannies?

oh wait, you'd probably tell them to not have kids.

as for this president, her antics seem downright mean. where have we gone as a society? the PP illustrates this perfectly.

[Anonymous]

I was pretty shocked at how crappy she was before. I mean, hell, I didn't have to have kids to not be a judgmental bitch. I may not have understood logistics of day care pick ups but I was never a bitch like this woman admits to being.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I judge parents all the time. We have two nannies to make sure that childcare is always covered. If you aren't ready to juggle work and kids hen don't have them! The other folks in the office shouldn't have to pick up your slack. This goes for men and women.

If you aren't ready to actually spend time with your children then don't have them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I judge parents all the time. We have two nannies to make sure that childcare is always covered. If you aren't ready to juggle work and kids hen don't have them! The other folks in the office shouldn't have to pick up your slack. This goes for men and women.

You know, it's supply and demand. When I made about $600,000 in private practice, I was happy to have a full time nanny who also got paid overtime as necessary. Now that I'm in house and making $150,000 a year, I'm not paying one dime in extra childcare.

I am ready to juggle work and kids within the reasonable bounds of what I get paid.

[Anonymous]

i have respect for her. sure, it's self promoting, but she could have outsourced everything and instead she saw that the world didn't work for her and changed it. brave IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I judge parents all the time. We have two nannies to make sure that childcare is always covered. If you aren't ready to juggle work and kids hen don't have them! The other folks in the office shouldn't have to pick up your slack. This goes for men and women.

Having two nannies isn't juggling work and kids.

[Anonymous]

Anatomy of a lib chick. Insult as many mothers as you can by putting them down for being mothers, start a company with women then insult them for being working mothers, then become a mother, apologize for insulting mothers and do it publicly so you can get attention for your company and pretend you mean it when in reality you don't but since you own the company, who gives two shits about working mothers. I DO WHAT I WANT !

She's a real DCUMom.

[Anonymous]

Full disclosure: I know the author.

While I'm sure there's a grain of truth here, I wondered why Fortune was basically running an advertorial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was pretty shocked at how crappy she was before. I mean, hell, I didn't have to have kids to not be a judgmental bitch. I may not have understood logistics of day care pick ups but I was never a bitch like this woman admits to being.

+1000!