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		<title>How Do You Do It All?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/08/how-do-you-do-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally ran on TheMamaBee.com. We&#8217;ve since replaced some of the activities listed below for new ones, but our house remains dirty and we still don&#8217;t have any friends. With the movie version of &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Know How She Does It&#8221; opening next month, we&#8217;re wondering, how do you do it all? Here&#8217;s our story: People always ask me, “How do you do it all?”  I am a full time working mother –in fact I’m the family breadwinner.  I am also president of the PTO, chair of a town committee, organizer of  an annual event for 400 attendees, and I moonlight as a freelance writer.  “It’s easy,” I tell them. “But my house is always dirty and I have no friends.”  And then the person who asked the question always laughs.  But I’m not joking. My house is dirty.  While my husband has the time to clean, he has no interest.  And I have neither the time nor the interest. Type As like me thrive on checking things off a to-do list and cleaning never comes off the list; by the time you get through all of the rooms in the house, you need to start over.  I don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have The Good Men Gone? Who Cares?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/02/where-have-the-good-men-gone-who-cares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Too many men in their 20s are living in a new kind of extended adolescence,&#8221; argues Kay S. Hymowitz in a recent essay published in the Wall Street Journal. Hymowitz is the author of &#8220;Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys.&#8221; According to Hymowitz, the average American man used to achieve &#8220;most of the milestones of adulthood&#8221; like a good job, wife and children, in his 20s. But today, the author observes, &#8220;most&#8221; 20-something men act like aged frat boys, hanging out drinking beer and discussing Star Wars. And this, says Hymowitz, is frustrating &#8220;legions&#8221; of 20-something women. Really? Census data and statistics show today&#8217;s 20 something women are more likely to be single, well-educated and higher paid (even out-earning male counterparts in some cities) than in years past. Is it true that they have just &#8220;one key question&#8221; on their minds – &#8220;Where have the good men gone?&#8221; Perhaps these women are thinking about their careers, their friends and family, shaping their own lives. Imagine that. And if they knew what we 40-something women know, they might see lots of opportunity in the men&#8217;s&#8217; behavior. That 20-something men aren&#8217;t acting like their fathers, isn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women on Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/02/women-on-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.skinnyscoop.com How are you celebrating Valentine&#8217;s Day? Do you do the planning or does your partner? When The Skinny Scoop posed the question, &#8220;Do you think it&#8217;s the man&#8217;s / husband&#8217;s job to plan something special for Valentine&#8217;s Day?&#8221; 56 percent of respondents said, &#8220;No.&#8221; The feminists among us? And as for the women who answered, &#8220;Yes,&#8221; it may not be romance they seek as much as sanity. As one yes respondent noted in the comments, &#8220;In reality we women usually do the bulk of kiddie stuff as well as plan most of the social calendar even if we work full-time. So this is a nice one to take off our shoulders.&#8221; Fair point. Maybe if Valentine&#8217;s Day always fell on a Saturday night, I might be interested in planning, or even attending, date night. But adding something to my to-do list and calendar when I haven&#8217;t even finished putting the Christmas decorations away? No thanks. Not the case in my household (no one does housework here), but women still do the majority of household chores in the average U.S. household &#8212;  and in the average U.K household too. So for the women who have the energy to make Valentine&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Fashion Matter?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2011/01/does-fashion-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I opened my email and there was an offer to review a pair of Pajama Jeans. If you don&#8217;t watch late night TV, you may not have seen the commercials for these so-called jeans that supposedly fit and feel like pajamas. At first I was offended. I don&#8217;t wear Crocs, see no reason for flip flops and I would never wear pajama jeans. Then I was intrigued. I did break down and by UGGs after all. And then I remembered a favorite motto &#8211; Just because you can, doesn&#8217;t mean you should. The whole three minute incident prompted me to revive this essay which  first appeared on My It Things in 2007. Enjoy. Does Fashion Matter? At the risk of incurring Miranda Priestley’s infamous Cerulean speech from “The Devil Wears Prada” when she verbally shreds her assistant for referring to fashion as “stuff”, I need to ask the question: Does fashion matter? Here’s the thing: I am an unfashionable size 12. I live in a middle class suburb. I work in a male-dominated industry in a blue-collar town west of Boston. My social life consists of family movie night every Friday (microwave popcorn and a Disney DVD), SwimTots at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are pets a feminist issue?</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/12/are-pets-a-feminist-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So ladies, after years of advocating better maternity leave policies,  I am taking up a new cause &#8211; pet bereavement policies. My dog died last Monday and showing up for work all week was so hard. I did it, but there&#8217;s a difference between showing and &#8220;showing up.&#8221; For many of us, pets are family. They are with us everyday, more than many of the people in our lives. They are loyal and loving and they give us the privilege of caring for them as babies and as old, tired creatures &#8212; and every day in between. But so many humans just don&#8217;t understand other humans&#8217; ability to love an animal. To those people I offer up this example. When a human I cared about  died and I was grieving, my dog came and sat with me &#8211; silent, patient, concerned.   She did not say to me, &#8220;I&#8221;m not much of a human person but I suppose it could be sad.&#8221; And yet when my dog died, several humans told me they weren&#8217;t really dog people  but&#8230;. And then they expected business as usual. Who would you prefer by your side while mourning a loss? At first, I was mostly joking about pet bereavement policies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Questions</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2010/09/two-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies, We have two questions for our working women readers (full and part time). You can either contact us at info@helloladies.com or leave a comment to answer. 1. If you are married or live with a partner, who does most of the housework and childrearing? 2. What was your maternity leave experience? It&#8217;s been a year since we published Real Stories of Maternity Leave and we&#8217;re wondering, what if anything, has changed? Thanks!]]></description>
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		<title>Female Breadwinner Will Survive</title>
		<link>http://helloladies.com/2009/12/female-breadwinner-will-survive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hello Ladies</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Gaynor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First I was afraid. I was petrified. I heard there was a new study from the University of Missouri in Columbia on women breadwinners. Studies about women always make me nervous. After all, people are still buzzing about the research Marcus Buckingham&#8217;s been touting on why woman are supposedly so unhappy. And yet, the data does not fully support Buckingham&#8217;s claims. And then there was a study out of the UK that said children whose mothers work are less healthy than those whose mothers stay at home. From The Guardian, &#8220;Working mothers are more likely to drive their children to school and the youngsters are more likely to watch TV, drink fizzy pop and eat too few portions of fruit and vegetables.&#8221; (FYI, there&#8217;s no fizzy pop in my house.) So I could only imagine a study about women breadwinners would paint us as power hungry bitches by day and slothful, self-absorbed mothers at night. (Or was I just projecting?)  As it turns out, the study was relatively harmless. Dr. Rebecca Meisenbach, who conducted the research, reports &#8220;The female breadwinner is an increasingly important and common role in contemporary society, one that impacts family relationships, individual identities, and organizational policies.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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