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- Harper's Bazaar provided details about a summer collaboration with Stitch Fix and body-positive fashion blogger Katie Sturino.
- Essence recapped a talk featuring Liris Crosse and Indya Moore about inclusiveness and compassion in the fashion industry.
- ABC News shared that Rihanna received praise from social media after she used curvy mannequins at a Fenty pop-up event.
- Skift discussed CBD oil-based beauty products, and where to find them.
- Fast Company suggested how to use your college's career services office as a resource, even if you graduated a while ago.
- CNBC shared career advice from Mika Brzezinski, founder of Know Your Value, a platform to help women get ahead in the workplace.
- The Washington Post reported that women now hold 1 in 4 seats on corporate boards.
- The Washington Post also took a look at why avoiding anxiety probably makes it worse.
- Experience explained why a journalist and tech consultant started bringing her knitting with her to meetings.
- The New York Times reported on 10 things that go against traditional medical wisdom.
- ICYMI: Bored Panda offered one man's analogy of being kicked in the groin to illustrate why women get angry when men get away with inappropriate behavior without consequences.
- Laugh of the Week: Eva Victor discussed in her viral Twitter video why equal pay for women doesn't make sense.
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Anon
Enjoyed the nutkicking analogy, but I’m guessing mostly women will read it and it will mostly be featured on women’s sites like this one.
Anon0321
Does anyone know to what extent a cbd product sold at… say whole foods (in ca)…. would show up on a drug test? Always been super curious about this.
Anon
If it’s CBD only, it wouldn’t show up on a test for THC.
Anonymous
I think the risk is low but not impossible. There’s a ton of CBD labeling fraud out there – products are tested and end up having zero CBD, measurable amounts of THC, and other contaminants. I’m sure there are good products out there too but I don’t know how a person would find and vet such a thing. Unless you have a high level of confidence that the product you’re using doesn’t have THC in it, I’d be cautious. Depending on your career and likelihood of being drug tested, it may not be worth the risk.
Work Perks
Hopefully a fun question. What’s the best work perk you’ve heard of? Or what perk do you wish you could have? As part of a initiative to improve culture/morale a senior partner asked me to put together a wish list of perks/benefits. The question mostly was directed at new parents (specifically moms) as we have a horrible track record retaining moms (and women in general) but am open to any thoughts/suggestions! All I’ve come up with so far is more flexibility on FaceTime/working from home and having subsidized daycare near the office
Anon
Equal parental leave for men and women. If men can’t be there for their children, women by default are left to pick up the slack, which affects the working culture in general and your company culture specifically. There is a reason they have no problem retaining dads but a hard time retaining moms. Because those workloads are different, since they are rigged from the moment the baby’s born. My company has implemented parental leave for men (“secondary caretakers”, not equal to “primary caretakers” but it’s something). The men have been all taking it (we’ve had 5 babies in the last year!) and it resulted in a HUGE reduction in the amount of b*tching I hear about someone taking maternity leave. If one group of people is never out and another is out for 3-4 months every three years, workers will resent that second group. If they’re both out for considerable time, and for something they all consider important, there is no one to unfavorably compare women against and it generally becomes a more taboo subject to b*tch about. The interesting thing is that we’ve now built temp worker coverage into our budget. This was never the case when parental leave was just a women’s issue. I’ll say it’s a lot easier to convert parental leave into a projected coverage budget when I don’t have to estimate how many workers might be women of reproductive age. It’s much easier to say – we have sixty PEOPLE working here and 15% might take leave, so let’s extrapolate that into money.
Anonymous
Second the equal parental leave point. From what I’ve heard from our male associates, they are continuously given crap about taking 4 weeks of parental leave permitted under our policies. Many try to break it into two-week chunks, which never works well. We have lots of perks for working moms and new parents (but no equal parental leave), including additional career/life coaching, flex time, milk shipping, backup care, subsidized care.com etc. But if you have to prioritize, they only reason I have not left so far is that I can work from home or leave at 4-4:30 pm to pick up the kiddo from daycare (and then plug back in when he goes back to sleep). This, however, seems to be office and practice group specific and not a firm-wide policy. It would also help if parental leave policies covered all employees, not only those who worked at the company for a certain amount of time.