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...positions at Deutsche Telekom offices in Germany - and none of the positions on the eight-member executive committee. In order to recruit more women managers, the company says it plans to introduce more flexible working hours and part-time positions, as well as expand its parental leave schemes and child-care services. It has also implemented a new "stay in contact" program, which helps women managers keep in touch with the office while on maternity leave. (See the dangers of printing money in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Quota for Female Managers | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...from just 7% female in 2003 to 40% in January 2008. Spain, the Netherlands and France are now planning similar laws. Sweden doesn't have a quota system, but it has introduced other measures to help women combine work and family life, such as tax cuts for household and child-care services and incentives for more fathers to take parental leave to care for children. The policies have helped Swedish women get ahead: 19% of executive board positions and nearly half of all board seats in state-owned companies are now held by women. (Read: "The Twilight of the Elites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Germany, a Quota for Female Managers | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...rise in telepsychiatry has come largely out of need. According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), between 7 million and 12 million youths suffer from mental, behavioral or developmental disorders. And a new nationally representative survey, funded in part by NIMH, indicates that 50% of the children in the U.S. who have certain mental disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder and depression are not being treated by a psychiatrist or other mental-health professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telemental Health: Videoconferencing As Psychiatry Aid | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...There are not enough doctors to go around," says Dr. Martin Drell, head of child psychiatry for Louisiana State University's health-science center in New Orleans and AACAP's president-elect. For example, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the local hospital doesn't have a child psychiatrist, so doctors some six hours away, at Michigan State University in East Lansing, treat patients via videoconferencing. In South Carolina, a statewide telepsychiatry program established last summer has cut the average waiting period for a child to get a psychiatric consultation from several days (in part because many families in rural areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telemental Health: Videoconferencing As Psychiatry Aid | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...conjuring up cranks and complainers who see everything wrong with the human condition. She usually manages to turn these characters into dark delights, whether they are the demographer in Game Control blithely planning a pandemic or the brittle mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin who abhors her child. Brilliantly funny and a superb plotter, Shriver is a master of the misanthrope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ails Us | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

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