Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtgzz!seb From: seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Who's watching the kids? Message-ID: <930@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 19:24:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mtgzz.930 Posted: Tue Jul 16 19:24:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:13:38 EDT References: <395@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> <537@hou2g.UUCP>, <11266@watnot.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 30 I like to think that if you're good enough at your job, you can get some time off or work part time. I would like to work out an equal sharing of parenting responsibilities. I work 3/4 time and he works 3/4 time. I think you can still be on top of things at 3/4 time, especially if you are a software developer and have access to a terminal on the days you are off. If a company puts a lot of money into training you I would think they'd like to keep you even if you only worked 3/4 of the time. Obviously understanding management has a lot to do with this. If your management types are a bunch of creeps you aren't going to get anything out of them. Maybe that's a good reason to go look for another job. Your company should attempt to mold its policies to keep the employees happy. The company usually has a lot of money invested in you and it would be short-sighted of them to get rid of you because you couldn't give the company your un- divided attention. A big push right now is for child-care at work for working couples. There are a lot of working couples at ATTISL and Bell Labs and it would definitely please the employees if day-care through the company was instituted. Besides, working couples get shafted be- cause they get double benefits that are worthless to them. I think it's our responsibility to push our employers to make it easier for both men and women to leave to take care of the children. If they don't make it easier for us to leave, they should provide day- care. The 2 career family is no longer an anomaly. You can barely support a family these days on one salary. Our employers have to come to terms with the changes in the working population so that they can keep their employees happy and productive. Sharon Badian ihnp4!mtgzz!seb