Workplace Buzz: Today’s Headlines

Workplace Buzz on November 21, 2007 7:11 AM

Feminist Media
Thirty-five years ago, as the second wave of the 20th-century U.S. feminist movement burst into action, women were all but shut out of newsrooms, press clubs, editorial boards and broadcasting booths. Women did the research; men got the bylines. Feminists were determined to be included, and to change the media. They wanted to counter and correct the mainstream news -- and start their own press(es). Today, women are writers, producers, anchors, editors and publishers at every important newspaper, news magazine, television network, and local TV and radio station. So in an era in which women seem to have integrated into the mainstream, do we still need feminist media? Alternet.org

Identity Crisis
It's been years since I identified myself simply as Steve's wife or Tom's mother. Almost 40 years, in fact. Instead, I have identified myself as a reporter, a journalist, a writer, a book author, a television host, even the founder of a nonprofit group for women at midlife. My work is my life. And my work took me outside the home, unlike my mother who worked at running the household. Mother never really quit her job, of course. But sooner or later I know I'll have to walk away from my mine. I look at "retirement" – the end of my identity – with understandable fear. And I'm not alone. Orange County Register

Workplace Annoyances
If you have a job, you know all about workplace pet peeves. They're the daily, obliviously carried-out bad habits that drive co-workers to considerable distraction and often extreme dislike. Can't we concentrate on these annoyances, see them for what they are and then abolish them in the name of co-worker respect and better office harmony? NY Daily News

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