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...mostly male employees regularly participate in the firm's "mobility program," which lets them work from home as long as they can be contacted via e-mail or phone. In addition, fathers are allowed to work 22 half-days in every six months if they use that extra time for family purposes. "With the wife working, there is an expectation that fathers should share more responsibilities in the home," says IBM's human-resources manager for Singapore, Tho Lye Sam. One benefit of this increased involvement, she adds, is that "fathers are now much closer to their children...
Whatever its limitations, supporters of the microcredit sector say its power to help individuals is real. "Women who come out of poverty spend extra income on health care, housing or sending their children to school," says Gowher Rizvi, a former Ford Foundation exec who gave Grameen its first grant. "That's worthwhile if it's even one family." Back in Ecuador, Penafiel was able to pay back his Kiva.org loan five months later, and had a little left over to cover his six kids' school fees. It isn't quite the American Dream, but it's a start...
...favorite target for the money queens is the alleged penchant of women, especially frivolous single women, to waste money on themselves. As Lois Frankel writes in Nice Girls Don't Get Rich, "Buying those morning lattes, extra outfits and expensive dinners with friends adds up to having less in your retirement and savings accounts." Women do spend $1,069--$246 more than men do--on clothing every year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2004-2005 Consumer Expenditure Survey. But that's chump change compared with what single men spend on car ownership ($846 more than single women), eating...
...drier, less salty, saltines. Great Jewish athletes throughout the generations have known that even though we are remembering an exodus, the show must go on. Take for example the doubles duo of Harvard tennis co-captains Scott Denenberg and Gideon Valkin. This one-two punch delivers some extra ‘umph’ during Passover thanks to matza. “It’s really funny to go to pre-meal dinners with the team,” Valkin said. “Everyone’s carbo-loading, and Scott and I are eating matza and potatoes...
...Legacies are probably well off to begin with—they don’t need the extra help,” he said...