The Breadwinners Jennifer Owens + Rachael Ellison

In 1978, Carol Evans helped launch Working Mother magazine. In 2001, she returned to become the first and only working mother to own it. In between, she would launch the Working Mother Best Companies as a way to encourage companies to compete to do better for their employees.
In our Season Four finale, Carol shares the history, impact and legacy of the Best Companies — and what work still needs to be done to support all working parents. 
 
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A Brief History of Carol Evans 
This Is How We Do It: The Working Mothers' Manifesto 
The 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising History 
Intrepid Women: Carol Evans, CEO, SHARE 
2021 Working Mother Best Companies
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A billionaire executive, author, philanthropist and working mother of two, Sheryl Sandberg has long been one of the most influential — and controversial — breadwinners in the world. This week, we dive into Sandberg’s “sort of a feminist manifesto,” Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, to consider its legacy nearly 10 years later.

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Why Women Still Can’t Have It All — Anne-Marie Slaughter
Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders — Sheryl Sandberg TED Talk
The 2012 TIME 100: Sheryl Sandberg — Muhtar Kent
Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg Problem — Nellie Bowles, New York Times
I Was a Sheryl Sandberg Superfan. Then her “Lean In” Advice Failed Me — Katherine Goldstein, Vox
The End of Leaning In: How Sheryl Sandberg’s Message of Empowerment Fully Unraveled — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post
Stop Leaning In And Start Fixing The Real Problem — Mona Andrews, Forbes
What Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ Has Meant to Women — Emma Goldberg, New York Times
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In 2013, new working mom and newly minted tech CEO Marissa Mayer announced a bold new policy: no longer could employees work from home. The change not only impacted hundreds of employees at Yahoo, it sparked a debate that roiled workplaces nationwide.
In this episode, Jennifer tells that story and how it prompted the launch of #NationalFlexDay.
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Zooming Into a Very Different National Flex Day 
How to ask your boss for a more flexible work schedule 
Marissa Mayer's No-Flex Policy Old School for Young Mom CEO 
Back To the Stone Age? New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Bans Working From Home 
Just Relax, NoFlex Boss: Flex Is a Boost Not Bust for Your Workplace 
Yahoo Says That Killing Working From Home Is Turning Out Perfectly — Greg Lindsay, Fast Company 
Marissa Mayer, Who Just Banned Working From Home, Paid To Have A Nursery Built At Her Office — Nicholas Carlson, Insider 
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In March 2007, Tim Ferriss told a room of over-caffeinated tech engineers that they were working too hard. That he was more successful doing much, much less. From that day on, Ferriss became known as the “4-hour guy,” turning his passion for productivity into a one-man franchise.
This week, Rachael + Jennifer take time to consider how to save it, use it and even, waste it.
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Revisiting ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ -- Cal Newport, The New Yorker 
Tim Ferriss Is Everything That's Wrong With the Modern World (and Why You Should Follow his Lead) — Michael Schein, Forbes 
Tim Ferriss, the Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine — Benedict Carey, The New York Times 
How Tim Ferriss Beat Depression and Became an Inspirational Icon — Richard Feloni, Inc. 
From Productivity to Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss Has Changed His Mind About Success — Clay Skipper, GQ 
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When the pandemic forced non-essential workers home to work from the kitchen table, the bedroom, the backyard, they benefited from decades of improvements to technology and collaborative tools.
In this episode, Rachael reveals how the modern era of work from home began — and its powerful impact on today’s changing workforce.
Episode Links 
Dad in Viral BBC interview Speaks Out 
Our Favorite News Reporters Working From Home Bloopers 
How the Coronavirus Outbreak Has – and Hasn’t – Changed the Way Americans Work 
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Today, the typical public school year is 180 days long, leaving about 16 weeks of child care to be covered by working parents who have only two to three weeks of paid leave (if they have any at all).
How did we get here and what happens when we try to change tradition? Jennifer + Rachael break out their calendars this week to track it all down.

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The History of School and Summer Vacation — By James Pedersen 
Year-Round Schooling Explained — By Jaclyn Zubrzycki 
Popularity Grows Anew for Year-Round Schooling — By Madeline Will 
The Pros & Cons of Year-Round School — By Brooke McGuire 
First Days of School, Decade by Decade — By Elizabeth A. Harris 
School's in: The History of Summer Education in American Public Schools – By Kenneth Mark Gold 
Agrarian Roots? Think Again. Debunking the Myth of Summer Vacation’s Origins — By Saskia de Melker and Sam Weber 
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