A World-Wide (Web) Convergence on a Single Topic?

It seems that everyone was talking about work-life/work-family balance issues this week. Check out these two posts from Workplace Prof Blog:

First, the Workplace Profs report that Georgetown University Law Center has received a sizeable grant to continue its efforts on the Workplace Flexibility 2010 initiative, which is "a campaign to support the development of a comprehensive national policy on workplace flexibility." The website for the program describes the goal of the initiative as follows: "By the year 2010, we hope to have helped develop consensus-based policy solutions that work for business and families."

Second, on Wednesday as we were discussing the very topic in class, the EEOC was hosting a discussion about Family Responsibility Discrimination. The meeting included testimony by Joan Williams, director of the Center on WorkLife Law at UC-Hastings College of the Law (the organization whose webpage you read for class on Wednesday); Zachary Fasman of Paul, Hastings; Heather Boushey, Center for Economic and Policy Research; Jennifer Tucker, Center for Women Policy Studies; and Elizabeth Grossman, EEOC Regional Attorney. Cynthia Calvert, also of Hasting's WorkLife Law center, has a more extensive post about the discussion at the WorkLife Law Blog. You will note that the panelists comment negatively about the "sex-plus" concept, which I mentioned in class on Wednesday.

I thought this was a nice convergence of news on the topic we were discussing at the very time we were discussing it.