News Roundup

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Some of the articles of interest to working mothers that we’ve seen around the web recently…

• Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 is available for pre-order for November shipping. The Smart Passive Income Podcast recently interviewed co-author Francesca Cavallo about the wild success of their crowdfunding campaign.
• Scary Mommy encourages moms to embrace “visible belly outline,” now trending on Instagram as #VBO (some images NSFW).
• Mommyish speculates that an ad seeking a Mandarin-speaking nanny for $130k could be for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, who recently announced the birth of their second child—on Facebook, of course.
• Working Mother shares CNN’s Alisyn Camerota’s experience of being sexually harassed by Fox News’ Roger Ailes, including how she explained it to her 12-year-old twin daughters and 10-year-old son after the story was shared on Twitter.
• Huffington Post reports that, for the first time, “a federal appellate court has recognized that employers are obligated to accommodate workers who are breastfeeding, just as they would employees who are injured.”
• Romper shares blogger Esther Anderson’s viral video comparing her first pregnancy to being pregnant while raising toddlers.
• The Washington Post has details about a bankruptcy filing by Toys R Us, reporting that “1,600 Toys R Us and Babies R Us locations would operate ‘as usual.'”
• The Washington Post also reports that, according to a study published in the journal Child Development, teens have been experiencing milestones like driving a car, serious dating, working for pay, and drinking alcohol later and later—since 1976.
• Quartz shares a Twitter battle between two London museums, The Science Museum and The Natural History Museum, that will make your day.
• Recipe of the Week: Corporette readers have been sharing their favorite chicken recipes, including this New York Times recipe for oven-roasted chicken shawarma.
• Laugh of the Week: McSweeney’s provides a hipster preschooler bingo chart.

Also, do be sure to check out the news update over at Corporette!

On Corporette Recently…

• We announced our new guide to business casual for women!
• We asked, who do you follow on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Medium for professional reasons?
• We traveled back in time in the Corporette time capsule, including the best Etsy shops for workwear, covering tattoos for interviews (particularly foot tattoos), and clothes storage for the closet-impaired (with 2017 updates).
• We offered a tongue-in-cheek list of five things every woman over 40 needs in her office, including henchmen and a piece of art that features the executive as muse.

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