by Jackie Acho | Nov 10, 2014 | Creative disruption, Empathy, Parenting, Silicon Valley, Social media, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership
Facebook and Apple recently announced plans to pay for their female employees to freeze their eggs for non-medical reasons. It sounds so friendly to women, doesn’t it? – a triumph of technology over biology, relieving us from the pressure of child bearing...
by Jackie Acho | May 17, 2014 | Early childhood, Intrapreneurship, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 29, 2013 | Fathers, Leadership, Mothers, Women in Science, Work Family Balance
My husband headed out of town this morning. I have important meetings and work to do. I have no backup childcare in place. You’ve been here, right? I bet your cortisol shot up just reading the title. What to do? Plan A: work through it. He’s probably old...
by Jackie Acho | Oct 24, 2013 | Culture, Early childhood, Empathy, Fathers, Feminist revolution, Identity, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
“Successful parenting is a principal key to the mental health of the next generation…In most societies throughout the world these facts have been and still are taken for granted and the societies organized accordingly. Paradoxically, it has taken the world’s richest...
by Jackie Acho | Jul 14, 2013 | Changemaker, Education, Empathy
It’s hard to read the news this weekend. Today’s NY Times story about the rise of a hookup culture in college http://nyti.ms/1aBZakL makes me sad for them and mad at us. Several accomplished and talented young interviewees detail daily lives that are...
