It’s so great that BlogHer 2006 has child care! I don’t have kids yet, but I’m still excited. Despite claims of living in an equal society, women still bear a much greater burden for child care in the U.S., and even as someone who’s not (yet) a mom, I think one of the best things that jobs and events can do to get more women involved is to provide child care.
It would be great if more conferences took this into consideration. BlogHer is the first technical conference that I’ve known of to provide childcare (although I don’t go to too many tech. conferences, so it could be more widespread than I think). Way to go! It’s both a great practical service and a great example to the tech. community!
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1 Sara // Jun 21, 2006 at 12:04 PM
That is great and you are right about women typically having to bare the childcare responsibility more than men.
Wish I wasn’t in the process of a move as I would love to attend BlogHer!
2 Sarah Mei // Jun 21, 2006 at 03:23 PM
That’s awesome. The next Berkeley Cybersalon will be talking about moms as bloggers, and has childcare (well, a room for kids to play and a supervisor) as well.
The yearly eBay Live conference, which runs concurrently with the eBay and PayPal Developer’s conference, also offers childcare. This might have something to do with the fact that 75% of eBay sellers are women. ;-)
Sarah
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