{"id":7684,"date":"2014-10-23T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:16:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:16:57","slug":"quick-hit-why-caregiver-discrimination-is-bad-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2014\/10\/23\/quick-hit-why-caregiver-discrimination-is-bad-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hit: Why Caregiver Discrimination Is Bad for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-22-at-9.13.33-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7686\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-22-at-9.13.33-PM-300x42.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-10-22 at 9.13.33 PM\" width=\"300\" height=\"42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-22-at-9.13.33-PM-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-shot-2014-10-22-at-9.13.33-PM.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Workplace consultant, coach and work-life advocate\u00a0<a title=\"ReWorking Parents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelellison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael Ellison<\/a> penned an excellent post chock full of qualitative data at HuffPo Parents last week, <a title=\"Why Caregiver Discrimination Is Bad for Business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rachael-ellison-ma\/discrimination-against-ca_b_5974666.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why Caregiver Discrimination Is Bad for Business.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Too good not to share.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Catalyst&#8217;s <a title=\"Catalyst's Bottom Line Series\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst.org\/knowledge\/bottom-line\" target=\"_blank\">Bottom Line series<\/a>? That groundbreaking research series that first explored the link between gender diversity and corporate financial performance? Well, this is of that flavor, but focused on the bottom-line benefits of retaining working parents, and based on stories from accomplished, successful professionals in their thirties and forties in dozens of industries. As Ellison notes, &#8220;In order to create or sustain family friendly workplaces, you need buy-in from organizational leadership, effective manager training, and employee accountability. Most companies don&#8217;t have all three, and as a result they lose their top talent. And, it&#8217;s costing them a fortune.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellison is working on a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelellison.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">REworking Parenthood<\/a>, for which she is currently collecting stories from parents in the trenches, that will help us understand how companies are succeeding and failing in supporting employees&#8217; lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rachael-ellison-ma\/discrimination-against-ca_b_5974666.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read on<\/a>, share away, and follow her at <a title=\"Rachael Ellison Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelellison.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">her blog<\/a> and Twitter (<a title=\"REworkingparent\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REworkingparent\" target=\"_blank\">@REworkingparent<\/a>) as she goes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workplace consultant, coach and work-life advocate\u00a0Rachael Ellison penned an excellent post chock full of qualitative data at HuffPo Parents last week, &#8220;Why Caregiver Discrimination Is Bad for Business.&#8221; Too good not to share. Remember Catalyst&#8217;s Bottom Line series? That groundbreaking research series that first explored the link between gender diversity and corporate financial performance? Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21107],"tags":[21241,8959,55,31083,21938,31082],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mama-w-pen","tag-catalyst","tag-families","tag-gender","tag-womens-equality-platform","tag-worklife","tag-working-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7684\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}