You can hear the panel here at 11:30 am

Today continues Fem2.0’s campaign to change the public discourse around work and life issues and its series of blog radio interviews. 

Today’s panel entitled Work Policies and Single Women: An Examination of the Work Issues Facing Single Women, With or Without Children will explore how the continuum of single women are challenged by work policy issues?

Topics will include:

+ The challenges faced by women in the workplace without children (50% of American women)
+ The challenges faced by never married women with children (19%-20%)
+ Reframing the family structure as horizontal (acknowledging that not all family responsibilities are “parental”)
+ Legislation to implement change (family and medical leave, Social Security, care giving credits, pay equity, retirement benefits)
+ Is the workload being left to single women without children?
+ Validating single women as heads of their own households

Page will be joined by moderator, Marcia G. Yerman, Huffington Post; Lisa Maatz, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, American Association of University Women; and Melanie Notkin, Founder  of the blog Savvy Auntie.

Be sure to tune into Fem2.0 blog radio here at 11:30 am to hear the panel.

And, if you’d like to get involved in the Fem 2.0 campaign and help shape the public dialogue about women and work/life issues, here’s how:

1) Tune into the blog talk radio series

2) Participate in the live-chat and/or Twittercasts (#fem2 and #worklife) happening during each of the blog talk radio segments. Download the podcast from each segment and share it with your networks.

3) Contribute a post to the blog carnival, either through your own blog or directly to Fem2.0. Send links and/or blog posts to info@fem2pt0.com.

4) Join this list of organizations and blog sites that will be holding their own concurrent blog carnivals or events that feed into the larger Fem2.0 effort. Email info@fem2pt0.com to let us know and we’ll add you to the list!

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