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Hamosh, M., Ellis, L.A., Pollock, D.R., Henderson, T.R., Hamosh, P. 1996. Breastfeeding and the working mother effect of time and temperature of short-term storage on proteolysis, lipolysis, and bacterial growth in milk. Pediatrics 97, 492-498. 

Working Mother Magazine Releases List of Top 100 Companies... 

A perennial on Working Mother magazine s ranking of 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers, qualifying as one of the 10 best for 9 of the list s 16 years. 

In May 2001, reporter Annie Finnigan spent a week at Rahway and Whitehouse Station to profile the company for Working Mother. Asked to sum up the atmosphere in a phrase, she promptly replies hard-working. Merck is a place where people work really hard, they expect a lot of themselves, and the company expects a lot, too, she explains. Not that the atmosphere is frenzied. It looks very orderly and calm. A well-oiled machine. But there s a sense that there s a lot of work that has to be done. More than half the employees in a recent company survey, she reported, called their workload excessive. 

The need for affordable, qualified, and conveniently located childcare is one of the pressing concerns of contemporary family life, and much has changed in the life patterns of today s society largely due to the dramatic increase of working mothers. She shows that childcare use has a far-reaching impact on access to care, quality of care, and cost of care (Ritzdorf 1990 Cohen 1987). 

Although the total number of workers potentially exposed to reproductive hazards is difficult to estimate, three-quarters of employed women and an even greater proportion of employed men are of reproductive age. More than half of U.S. children are bom to working mothers. The vast number of workers of reproductive age together with the substantial number of workplace chemical, physical, and biological agents suggest that a considerable... 

The on-and-off-the-job problems of employees in the CWS were confined almost exclusively to the Chemical Warfare Center and the arsenals. Difficulties arose on such matters as housing, transportation, care of the children of working mothers, adequate eating accommodations, and recreation. The failure to solve these problems was a contributory factor to the comparatively high rates of absenteeism and turnover at certain CWS arsenals during the war. To reduce the rates of absenteeism and turnover, employee relations officers were appointed at the various installations in 1943. 

Weekend revelers in Detroit had a chance to stop a crime and save a life. Instead, they apparently gawked. And Deletha Word, 33, working mother, is dead. 

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