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  • November 7, 2015
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The Brutal Truth About Being Childless at Work

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 9, 2015
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Not having them at all: Why childfree women are banding together

"Notkin, author of Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness, will deliver a keynote based on the book. “The myopic view of mother as all women establishes women who don’t have children as the ‘other’ to mother,” she explained. The consequences of this othering are significant: “If we are ‘other’ to mother then we will never live our full authentic lives, because we will always be measured against what society believes to be our potential.” This, according to Notkin, is an important issue feminism has yet to fully address."

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  • October 6, 2015
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Call me ‘childless.’ I won’t think less of myself.

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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How to Know You’re Not Alone in the Otherhood

How to Know You’re Not Alone in the Otherhood

I have made some of the most endearing, most meaningful, and most everlasting friendships of my life in my thirties and forties. But there was a time when I thought I might end up alone. In my twentie...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

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. Listen in her...Read More »
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