Work-Life Integration

Posted by Bey-Ling Sha in October 29th 2010

Okay. I admit it.

I took my 10-year-old to the PRSA International Conference this year. And yes, I worried a little about what people would think. After all, who takes a kid to a professional conference (and actually makes him attend meetings and sessions)? Would people judge me as a bad professional for having my child with me? Worse, would people judge me as a bad mother?

In the end, I figured that if anyone could take a child with her to a conference, it should be me, the chair of PRSA’s own Work, Life & Gender Committee. After all, if I’m not going to model work-life integration for my peers, who else is going to do it?

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Paycheck Fairness: It’s Time for Gender Equity in Pay Rates

Posted by Bey-Ling Sha in July 26th 2010

With President Obama’s support for the Paycheck Fairness Act, dialogue about equal pay for women and men will be starting up again. Personally, I think the very fact that women and men do NOT get paid equitably for doing the same work would be funny, if the fact of its continued, stubborn existence were not so sad.

Women’s Pay Through the Years
Paying a woman less money than her male counterpart can be traced to the days when men were the primary breadwinners in the family, and women’s work outside the home was considered “extra” income. The prevailing attitude of those times was that women did not necessarily need to work, because they had husbands and fathers who would take care of them.

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under: 2010 International Conference: Powering PRogress, Corporate Communications and Public Relations, PRSA Conferences, PRSA International Conference
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Gender Salary Difference Analysis: My Cheap Baby

Posted by Bey-Ling Sha in August 24th 2009

So, I wrote this article with the famous scholar and PRSA’s 2008 Outstanding Educator, David Dozier, and one of our graduate students, on the impact of career interruption and child bearing on income. In non-academic terms, this means we looked at whether women taking time off from public relations work to have babies suffered in their salaries when they returned to the workforce. The short answer? Not really. Women who took time off from work came back making only $148/year less than women who had never taken time off from work. So that’s the statistic. What’s the reality?

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Defining Crisis

Posted by Bey-Ling Sha in September 12th 2008

So, I get this invitation to write a blog related to an upcoming panel I’m participating on, Leaving No One Behind. I jump at the chance, not because I have nothing else to get done today, but because writing the blog is a great way to procrastinate from all that work, as I worry about my family members in Houston, hunkered down at home, bracing for Hurricane Ike. The forecast is so dire that city officials declared Friday, September 12, a hurricane-preparation day. No one goes to work; no one goes to school.

Thousands of miles away, in a city where some people don’t even know what rain is, I’m at work, but even the gray skies today in usually sunny San Diego reflect my concern.

The scenario in my Texas hometown this morning contrasts sharply with what we saw in 2005, when Hurricane Rita was aiming for the Houston area. In that event, residents were asked to evacuate, but panic and disorganization resulted in more than 100 deaths in traffic, compared to fewer than 10 deaths caused by the actual hurricane itself. Three years ago in Houston, the crisis was not caused by nature, but by man.

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Work-Life Integration

Paycheck Fairness: It’s Time for Gender Equity in Pay Rates

Gender Salary Difference Analysis: My Cheap Baby

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