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To obamacare and there is about 15 out there. same thing with the economy. the republicans have to come together and get one message for the economy. >> people should look at the finance professor article in the wall street journal john cochrine wrote an impressive alternative to obamacare. in order to get more centralist and appeal to people in the next election, are they pushing for child tax credits, flex time and hourly workers, would that help working families? >> without question. a lot of...

Be less flex time, more people coming into the office. when it turned out she had child care for herself there, you had a huge national debate. but both men and women should get that flex time that technology now allows. but what im worried about with men is that theyre not graduating from college. women now make up more than 25% of college graduates greater than men. women. im confusing the statistics there a little bit. >> i worry -- >> women are dominating -- >> men have -- disproportionate w...

Be less flex time, more people coming into the office. when it turned out she had child care for herself there, you had a huge national debate. but both men and women should get that flex time that technology now allows. but what im worried about with men is that theyre not graduating from college. women now make up more than 25% of college graduates greater than men. women. im confusing the statistics there a little bit. >> i worry -- >> women are dominating -- >> men have -- disproportionate w...

>> people from both sexes want that family time. they should get that family time. marissa mayer, head of yahoo! set off a huge debate recently when she said that there should be less flex time, more people coming into the office. when it turned out she had child care for herself there, you had a huge national debate. but both men and women should get that flex time that technology now allows. but what im worried about with men is that theyre not graduating from college. women now make up more t...

Or saying what you need. and i think that i love this conversation. i want to have more. i just want to get closing thoughts from everybody. i start with lisa. >> we need a revolution in the workplace and womens natures but none of that accounts for how difficult life is on the ground. and the fact that when men have kids, they go to work more. and when women have kids -- >> yes, we do! honey, im sorry, i have to go on a business trip for three months. >> and feel terribly guilty and wears on th...

Be left to the parents, not to a business executive who has written a book. i do believe that sadly, piers, in our country, in our culture, i believe that the career of mom doesnt receive the proper respect and i think its because a paycheck is not attached. but there is nothing more important, more difficult than raising children. >> suzy welch, marissa lit this firestorm by saying look, yahoo! im fed up with my staff working from home, youre all coming in now. what about the rest of us who hav...

Women when the systems rigged. her solutions allow more people to work from home, flex time so parents can do parenting and work, not just mothers but fathers as well, require paid family leave in all jobs. >> i dont want to let workplaces off the hook. we need to support all choices that women make but this is a larger social problem and economic problem as well. >> reporter: despite her emphasis on personal ambition, sandburg admits, throughout "lean in" shes had an uphill battle to juggle her...

>> arianna, thats a tough, tough order. do you think there needs to be more responsibility when you look at employers or even the government in terms of creating the kinds of things like flex time or paid family leave. weve heard very recently from anne marie slaughter a former state department official who is saying thats really where the focus should be. >> i think it should be across the board. im very glad that sheryl sandbergs book has opened this very important conversation. obviously wome...

Masculine if you are good at sports. you are not being a woman. young boys are pressured like this. young girls dont feel like they have to play dumb, but young boys are not allowed the same freedom in liking to do things we associate with girls. they get bullied and tease and we thought one of the things that is interesting is although there is a lot of prejudice against women as mothers, when dads ask for flex time, they are often bully and harassed on the job. there is a ways to go. >> stepha...

>> dana: ten years ago employers called flex time. you get three weeks off if you are salary employee and you can use them however you want. you could take vacation time with it, or if you were ill, then you take days off for that. that was a model that people were excited about and thought would help taking sick days when they shouldnt and reward people who didnt call in sick unnecessarily. the feedback i got on twitter today i dont think its working well. >> kimberly: what does the research sh...