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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend at state dept was put on admin leave 3 weeks ago and was told their last day is Friday.  Figure it out and go to work if you have to.  Try looking with the many thousands of others who are looking now. [/quote]

+ 1-  parents need to figure out how to manage their families and get help.[/quote]

You do realize for generations women didn’t work or they worked part time have two parents working outside the home is difficult and not what many of us signed up for when we stayed in the government. We have figured out how to manage. But like hell if I’m not going to complain. And in time will likely look for another job. [/quote]

100% I resent people that tell women to “buck up” and deal. Working moms are disproportionately impacted by this. [/quote]

Then that’s a problem between you and your husband, not you and your job.[/quote]

This is the standard response of somebody who resents the progress women made during the pandemic. Working moms are statistically among the most efficient and motivated workers, but as a group they opt out of leadership roles and/or full time work because of family obligations like afterschool care. The pandemic telework situation created a surge in these women working more hours and seeking promotions, purely because they didn't have to commute. It was a net positive for employers.  [/quote]

Not at all.  It only affects women more than men if the women don’t insist on men doing their equal share around the house and with kids.

This sucks for everybody, but there need not be a gender divide.[/quote]

Thanks. I’ll let my husband know he needs to start breastfeeding our infant.[/quote]

PP don’t respond to these trolls. They will never change. It’s not even about breastfeeding, which last for a relatively short period of time. We actually want to raise our kids and spend time with them, while also having a career. It’s hard to do that when you are out for such a long part of the day due to commuting back and fourth.  Ppl like PP will never understand. [/quote]

100% this. The SEC was known to be a place where many brilliant ambitious women who didn’t want to work biglae hours would go. This has changed so many rapidly, it’s a tragedy.[/quote]

There are countless ambitious women across corporate America who successfully manage the demanding hours of BigLaw and executive roles while raising children. There are countless women in government agencies who successfully manage the demanding hours of an SES or senior management position while raising children.  They may not be present for every moment in their children’s lives, but they make it work—with the support of partners, childcare arrangements, and deliberate prioritization. Many of these women hold C-level positions and are responsible for significant organizational decisions, attending high-level meetings in person every day with limited flexibility around remote work.

The reality is, this level of balance requires trade-offs. It’s not that it [i][b]can’t [/b][/i]be done—it’s that choices must be made about what to take on and what to let go of. The notion that working mothers in demanding roles deserve special telework accommodations not broadly available across similar sectors doesn’t align with the standards set by many high-performing organizations.  If we, as the largest market regulator in the world, want to be taken seriously and model the rigor of private-sector leadership, we need to set a tone consistent with that standard. Watch speeches from women like Indra Noori, Sheryl Sandberg, Mary Barra, Julie Sweet and a host of other women from mid level leadership positions to the top of their organizations—all of whom speak candidly about the compromises and commitments they’ve made as mothers in leadership. Their examples show it’s possible—with intention, support, and structure. If someone is seeking a remote-first job, there are certainly opportunities that offer that. But framing return-to-office expectations as a gender equity issue risks mischaracterizing the broader challenge. I say this as a woman working full-time, five days a week, at the SEC, raising three kids between the ages of 8 and 13—and having been back in person since 2022.[/quote]

Your smug comments about prioritization miss the point, which is that people DO prioritize. That's why they chose the jobs they did: they prioritized certain flexibilities. Now their priorities will cause them to leave, or to stay but decline to step forward and fully use their talents. It affects everybody including men, but you will see the most constriction among women and disabled people.

Basically, a lot of people dont want to be like Sheryl Sandberg, and most jobs don't need them to be (or pay that way) so pretending that's a goal is nonsense. [/quote]

A sizeable portion of us left biglaw and c-suite tracks because we wanted to be physically around our families more. We made the trade-offs. The SEC had far far more flexibility pre-COVID than the current situation. Post-COVID, we had a contract in place that secured our right to telework.

Also, Sharyl Sandberg herself realized that her Lean In bullshit doesn’t work for everyone when her husband died. Life happens and not everyone makes the same choices. That's the idea behind having flexibility in the workplace. I have actually watched plenty of interviews of Indra Nooyi and she is a strong advocate for flexibility in the workplace. Here’s a quote from her interview with Adam Grant:

“And I never wanted to be viewed as anything but a very positive force in the United States, which welcomed me. So I had the weight of all three, and that's why I said I'm wired differently, Adam. All of these things weighed heavily on me. And so, yes, I had a lot of guilt. I had a lot of tug of heartstrings and, uh, in retrospect, um, I wish I'd had more time with my kids, especially some ability to work remotely and job flexibility.

If we have, if we had, then the tools we have today, I would have gone home a few times earlier to meet my kids off the bus. So, you know, I hope today's young people can balance all this better with some combination of flexible working or remote working and the ability to have families.”

It’s a great interview. I recommend listening to it on your commute.

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No one is arguing that juggling is hard to do and there is mom-guilt associated with it.  There is also dad-guilt associated with it especially when dads play a critical role in a particular area of a child's life which gets compromised because of work travel or meetings.  It happens to me quite a bit because my spouse has to share that load because of the flexibility that is available to her but not me.[/quote]

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