- July 26, 2016
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Children? No. Mother-feelings? Yeah!
Melanie Notkin is featured in the August 2016 issue of Germany's EMOTION Magazine on Otherhood.
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Melanie Notkin Featured in NYT Sunday Business on Marketing to Childless Women
The New York Times Sunday Business section (July 10, 2016) features Melanie Notkin and her brands Savvy Auntie, PANK, and Otherhood in a report on how, by focusing mainly on moms, marketers are missin...Read More »
- July 10, 2016
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Childless Women to Marketers: We Buy Things Too
Melanie Notkin, Savvy Auntie, PANK, and Otherhood are featured in The New York Times Sunday Business on a report focused on how marketers are missing the influential and rising demographic of childles...Read More »
- May 16, 2016
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Savvy Auntie, PANK and Melanie Notkin Named in Euromonitor International Top 10 Global Consumer Trends for 2016 Report
Trend: Spending Singles - "Child-free Spenders"
"PANKs (Professional Aunt No Kids) ... [is] a trending demographic. With more consumers postponing or not having childre...Read More »
- November 7, 2015
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The Brutal Truth About Being Childless at Work
There’s also the common assumption that with no kids, people must have a lot of free personal time, and the work-life balance does not really apply to them. As Melanie Notkin, author of Otherhood: Mod...Read More »
- November 7, 2015
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The Brutal Truth About Being Childless at Work
There’s also the common assumption that with no kids, people must have a lot of free personal time, and the work-life balance does not really apply to them. As Melanie Notkin, author of Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, puts it, “It’s rare that childless workers are thought to have a life outside of work, so ‘what’s to balance?’ some may think.”
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- October 6, 2015
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Call me ‘childless.’ I won’t think less of myself.
I was only trying to make conversation, as one does at a party. But when I was introduced to a reality-show star, the conversation ended just as quickly as it began.
We started with the customary “...Read More »
- October 6, 2015
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Call me ‘child-less.’ I won’t think less of myself.
Melanie Notkin writes in the Washington Post Solo-ish column about why she prefers the term "childless" over "childfree."
I was only trying to make conversation, as one does at a party. But when I was...Read More »
- October 5, 2015
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NPR WCPN IdeaStream
In advance of Melanie Notkin's keynote speech at the first Not-Mom Summit on Friday, October 9, 2015, she was invited on the IdeaStream show on NPR, Cleveland OH to discuss Otherhood.
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- September 17, 2015
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Kim Cattrall: ‘I am not a biological parent, but I am a parent’
I asked Melanie Notkin what she thought of Cattrall’s parenting comments. Notkin, an aunt to six nieces and nephews, is the creator of Savvy Auntie, an online community for PANKS (that’s professional ...Read More »