There is a notion that men lose a piece of their masculinity when they want time off to take care of their families, when they need to go part time or decide to stay home altogether with their children in lieu of their career.
We need a societal shift in which men are just as likely to go part-time so they can pick the kids up from school.
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Nor is it the willingness to go onto part-time working to preserve jobs in the downturn, the Protestant work ethic, the large manufacturing sector or any of the other things that people are musing about.
The new jobs may be part-time positions, and they can also go to people who are already working part-time or who are self-employed.
You might look at whether or not you need to go back to work part time or full time or if you've got other income coming in that's enough to cover your expenses.
My wife is on maternity leave, but due to go back to work part-time next week.
So why do journalists go on about an epidemic of part-time jobs?
Kate Vanorden said her son had two part-time jobs and was saving money to go to Onondaga County Community College to study auto mechanics.
Ms. WATT: I'll always remember that part all the time - telling me I like to go in this business.
It's not uncommon for a body part to go numb after staying in the same position for a long time, whether sitting or standing.
Because a poor black kid who gets good grades, has a part time job and becomes proficient with a technical skill will go to college.
"When we won the First Division in 1990, we did so as a part-time club and that's the way the game has to go, " Brown told the club website.
"In our year in the Unibond League we only lost two games and so had a few long unbeaten runs, but to go 14 games unbeaten in a league as competitive as the Conference is tremendous, especially for a part-time club, " Stride added.
She said the money would go on renovating her home, which she said had a "mouldy cellar, " and hiring a part-time nanny for her newly adopted five-year-old Chinese son, to allow her to work on new installations.
This week, as part of a 500-person layoff plan that we reported in October, Time Inc. let go of 25 staffers from the Sports Illustrated Group, which includes Sports Illustrated, Sports Illustrated for Kids, Golf magazine and their online counterparts.
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