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Lisa Frederiksen

Lisa Frederiksen a researcher, speaker, consultant and the author of seven books, three of them biographies on leaders of the women's rights movement - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Betty Friedan, and one a biography on Ella Baker, leader in the Civil Rights Movement. She is a nationally recognized speaker on women's history and the answers it provides for shaping today's societal views and public policy issues regarding the concerns of women and families. Additionally, she writes, speaks and consults on alcohol related issues - especially the new brain research, which is helping to debunk old assumptions about alcohol and its impact on the drinker, the family and society as a whole.

More on Workplace Flexibility

Two-thirds of American families have all available parents in the workplace, and yet, the workplace – in many cases – still has not implemented policies nor adopted a company philosophy that allows employees to balance the demands of two full time jobs (work and raising children/managing a household).
On March 31, 2010,  President Barack Obama, First [...]

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Help With Creating Flex Time Policies in the Workplace

For those who want to implement flex-options in the workplace, the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor has created an excellent website of resources, www.flexoptions.org. This site provides the research, resources and tools that business owners need in order to implement workplace flexibility policies. Quoting from their website,
Business owners understand the desire of [...]

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Less Than 1 Week Left – Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial Exhibit at the Washington State History Museum

by Lisa Frederiksen
Washington was the 5th state to grant women full suffrage – 10 years before the 19th Amendment was ratified! Often, people are not aware that some states had granted women suffrage long before the 19th Amendment. When you look at this map of suffrage in the United States, women suffrage in America was [...]

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