Forum on Workplace Flexibility: Opening Session

First Lady Michelle Obama speaks about the importance of creating workplaces that allow workers to balance job and family as she opens the Forum of Workplace Flexibility. A panel discussion follows the First Ladys remarks. March 31, 2010.

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News & Politics

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• employment
• jobs
• workplace
• flexibility
• working parents
• family
• children
• First Lady
• Michelle
• Obama

[HeatLegs]

I miss star ratings. :(

[f1nK3L90]

rights for immigrant workers worldwide

[kcarpenteril]

we need new and updated tax laws aligned with the realities of work which is that many women and people are self employed working from their living rooms and you still can't right off your home office unless the room is shut off from the rest of your home. I work in my living room 10 hours a day!!! Not fair. Government really needs to get into the 21st century. Come on guys move move move.

[Red0660]

37:05 Well the reason men are "stepping up to the plate" at home is because the Council On Women and Girls and the feminist organizations diverted the Stimulus Package to women. "So they don't have to be frustrated" Maam, men are very angry and frustrated! Robert Reich even said the money should go to women and minorities.

See Article: No Country For Burly Men by Christina Hoff Sommers.

[Red0660]

The family is ceasing to be necessary either to its members or to the nation as a whole. The old family structure is now merely a hindrance." "Communism liberates women from her domestic slavery and makes her life richer and happier." -Alexandra Kollontai -Komunistka, No. 2, 1920, and in English in The Worker, 1920

[Red0660]

I think that the mother should have 3mo at most with the infant and then it should be turned over to child care facility & as it gets older, the education system, both should be subsidized by government. The child should spend most waking hours from infancy in the communal environment than with family.

[Red0660]

First and foremost, since we are on this path already we need to follow the old Soviet model of childcare services. So it's important that we all pay taxes to take care of everyone's children. As Alexandria Kollanti (the leader of Lenin's Council On Women and Girls known as the Zenotdel) said the following...

"The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russias communist workers"

[MrTabby5000]

@f1nK3L90

LEGAL immigrants.

[skeller198]

That's not the First Lady... Mislabeled. She has a weird annoying voice which makes me not want to watch this video...