Kirrily 'Skud' Robert wrote:
>
> Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> >
> >Playing Devil's Advocate:
> >
> >Women ARE several times more likely to quit jobs than men for a variety of
> >reasons
> 4) allow flex time, childcare etc (which would benefit any childcarer,
> and flex time would benefit non-childcarers, not just women) to make it
> easier to work with children or other commitments
5) Be understanding of illness, both the person's own and their family's.
Take the time to explore solutions - your best programmer's son has just
been diagnosed with leukemia? Keep him/her in the company by handing
him/her a laptop and a modem and saying 'come in when there's meetings we
need you for, but otherwise here's a timesheet....'
And schedule those meetings around doctor's appointments where possible.
Learn the reasons women leave jobs, and effectively negate them, and gee,
how much retraining money would be saved?
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
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