Why America Needs to Support New Mothers

August 30, 2015   Follow:     Important     Guest Star Susan Wojcicki Curates OZY's PDB Not many CEOs can boast that more than a billion people use their product every month — which is just one reason OZY is very pleased to welcome YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki as curator of the Presidential Daily Brief. The Harvard grad and mom of five (the littlest is still an infant) was employee No. 16 at Google, and her accomplishments include driving acquisitions (including that of YouTube) and boosting the company’s ads business. Wojcicki became YouTube’s CEO in 2014, and oversees content, business operations and product development. Today, she joins the ranks of past curators like Michelle Peluso,  Satya Nadella and Jeb Bush to share her take on today’s must-know events and personalities.  Share With Friends: Storm Stories Taking Stock, 10 Years After Katrina A decade on, what have we learned? Hurricane Katrina was “a natural disaster” that “became a man-made one,” as President Obama put it. And it was a major wake-up call to massive inequality in the United States. There remains much to do on that front, and in many ways, New Orleans is still putting the pieces back together. But the human side of the disaster and recovery is worth hearing — as in this story of two people who met, fell in love and built a family in the aftermath of the storm. NPR Share With Friends: Gettin' Hitched The Fight Over Gay Marriage Continues It’s not over yet. Marriage equality is probably the biggest civil rights movement of the past decade, and it struck a major victory with the Supreme Court ruling back in June. But there’s still a ways to go. Several county clerks in Kentucky, for instance, are denying marriage licenses to gay couples on the basis of their religious convictions. One clerk has even appealed to the Supreme Court, in what her lawyers consider a “first test of the rights of public officials” since the same-sex marriage ruling. Clearly, more progress is needed. USA Today Share With Friends: Labor Pains America Needs to Support New Mothers It’s time they can’t get back. Mothers worldwide take paid leave to be at home with their newborns, but the U.S. is the only developed country not to offer government-mandated maternity leave. Even though some firms are becoming more generous with paid leave, the vast majority of female workers in America — 88 percent — get no paid leave after childbirth. Experience has shown me that paid maternity leave helps reduce turnover, which means it’s great for business as well as families.  CNN, WSJ (sub), NPR Share With Friends:     BRIEFLY     Protesters call for prime minister’s resignation in Malaysia. (BBC)  Suspect named in shooting death of sheriff’s deputy. (USA Today)  Egyptian court sentences Al Jazeera journalists to three years. (Al Jazeera)  ‘Les Miserables’ star Kyle Jean-Baptiste dies in fall. (NYT)  Hungary erects anti-refugee fence along Serbian border. (DW)      INTRIGUING     The Fixer Lawyer Helps Tech Firms Diversify She’s guiding them to the straight and (not so) narrow. Diversity in the workplace is a critical issue, especially in Silicon Valley, and lawyer Joelle Emerson is on the case. Her firm, Paradigm, is helping more than a dozen tech companies — including Pinterest — select, develop and retain more diverse staffs. Opening recruitment to more schools can be a good start. But there’s likely no finish line, Emerson says, and firms looking to make real changes need to set diversity goals —and remain dedicated to them.  Silicon Valley Share With Friends: Cutting Cords The Online-Video Gold Rush Get ready for bigger battles over smaller screens. As TV viewership declines, especially among millennials, online video has become one of the hottest corners in media. Over the last year, several companies, in both media and tech, have rushed to compete in this emerging space. There’s a lot of speculation over what the new challengers mean for YouTube. When I’m asked about the competition, I say that it’s a good thing, to the extent that it focuses us on improving our product. The digital ad market is growing quickly, and there will be more than enough room for many successful companies. FT (sub) Share With Friends: Ringing Change Migrants Don't Leave Home Without Their ... Phones Their port of call? A charging station. The migrant migration we’re seeing in Europe — and across the globe — is being fueled, at least in part, by access to smartphones and global positioning apps. These pocket-size supercomputers are bringing real change to people’s lives, day in and day out. Who would’ve thought, just five years ago, that a smartphone would be up there with food and shelter as a critical necessity? This article is a great reminder of why my top priorities at YouTube are mobile, mobile and mobile. NYT Share With Friends: Pop Empress Taylor Swift and Her Powerful Sisterhood She’s a juggernaut. When I took my daughter and her friends to a Taylor Swift concert recently, I was blown away. The 25-year-old songstress has really come into her own over the past couple years, and it’s not just the music: Swift has developed into a force in the creative industry, and she’s done it on her own terms, whether she’s challenging distributors, forging close bonds among other powerful young women or redefining social media. Vanity Fair Share With Friends: Work Train Take Some Time Off, Already It’s time for a break. Yes, in Silicon Valley’s tech industry, there’s a pervasive culture of long hours and never signing off or shutting down. But overworking just does not work, and to me, it’s not a status symbol either. I make it a point to be home for dinner every night with my family, and it turns out that the benefits accrue not just to my personal life, but to my professional life too. The big lesson here? Working more is no substitute for working hard and working smart. Washington Post Share With Friends:     DAILY DOSE     POV Shooting for Change in Western Sahara Read More »   RISING STARS Charles King: The Next Hollywood Kingpin? Read More » Follow us This email was sent to PhillipPhillip787@gmail.com by OZY Media 800 West El Camino Mountain View, CA 94040Manage Subscriptions   |   Update Profile   |   Unsubscribe   |   Privacy Policy