Jessica Shortall

The Shriver Report – Jessica Shortall

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Jessica Shortall is a 35-year-old working mother, with a career dedicated to the intersection of business and doing good. She started out her adult life as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan (more vodka drinking than you would expect from a Muslim country), and hasn’t stopped searching for ways to change the world since, across the non-profit and for-profit landscape. Her work has had her literally circumnavigate the globe while also having, and attempting to raise, two small children. Jessica has an MBA with honors from the University of Oxford in the UK. She lives in Austin, TX with her husband Clay, her 3-1/2-year-old son, Otis, and her 8-month-old daughter, Etta. Before having children, she used to enjoy yoga, cooking, and a lot of other activities. Currently she’s just hanging on for dear life.

Work

Gender Equality Is a Myth!

01.12.2014

By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. → Read More

Work

Life Ed

Life Ed: 7 Ways to Support a Breastfeeding Co-worker

Jessica Shortall | 03.31.2014

Breastfeeding in America is on the rise, and more women are breadwinners than ever before. At some point, you are likely to have a breastfeeding co-worker. Here’s how to be an MVP to a milk-making mom. → Read More

Family + Work

Talking to Your Boss About Your Breasts

Jessica Shortall | 03.05.2014

When was the last time you talked to your boss about your breasts? Breastfeeding and working is no longer an exception for new mothers. It is no longer a valiant few women, secretly locked in closets with breast pumps: it’s the new reality of an America where women are all at once breadwinners and, for the first few months to few years of a baby’s life, milk-makers. → Read More

Family

A New Mom Going Back to Work in the New Year? 10 Tips to Help you Pump at Work

Jessica Shortall | 12.24.2013

Working motherhood has long involved a trade-off that is painful for many: breastfeed, or go back to work. Today, many working mothers have a third choice: go back to work and bring your breast pump with you. → Read More

Health

Has “Breast is Best” Jumped the Shark?

Jessica Shortall | 11.20.2013

I’m a working mother of two small children, and I’ve breastfed them both. In fact, I’m currently somewhere in the middle of breastfeeding my second child, who has cut two teeth recently and knows how to use them, so we’ll see how much longer this continues. And it’s been interesting, being alive and mothering and breastfeeding during a time of historically high intrusion into women’s nutrition relationships with their babies. I’m not a breastfeeding crusader – quite the contrary, actually. I’ve found the whole situation to be exhausting and crazy and difficult. → Read More

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