Female Yahoo! CEO Kills Work from Home Option? Why Americans Need a More Flexible Workplace

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37. I suspect that the reasoning had to do with the fact that they believed she

would go in the opposite direction, seeing as she just had a child in October.

It looks like she's more in favor of a "take your kid to work" policy as opposed to "Stay home with the infant and work from the house" policy...

WIRED is saying this decision could go either way for her, and that she might go with her old workplace model at Google:

....At the same time, Google’s cocoon-like campus, with its free food and services such laundry and shoe repair, blurs the line between work and home life in a way that seems designed to keep people at the office for as many hours as possible. After all, if the company is taking care of all your needs, why would you ever need to go home? Perhaps Mayer truly does believe in the superiority of office togetherness.

“To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side,” the internal memo from Yahoo human resources head Jackie Reses reads. “That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices.”

....Much has been written about the power of serendipitous encounters to fuel innovation, a serendipity encouraged by physical proximity and density. Yoav Schwartz (no relation to Tony) has been outspoken online in support of the new Yahoo policy and believes that’s the kind of environment Mayer wants to create. Schwartz is the founder and CEO of Uberflip, a 20-person startup in Toronto with a strict no-work-from-home policy. Schwartz says prospective employees learn about the policy up front, which means they know what to expect. Mayer didn’t have the chance to set that tone from the start, he says, which means having to make tough calls to reboot the workplace culture she inherited.

“It’s about being part of an ecosystem. I think that’s what Mayer was trying to convey,” Schwartz says. “If you’re building a culture, a huge part of that culture is being present within it.”

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/02/yahoo-no-work-from-home/

If Danica Patrick had crashed, I think they would have noted her gender in the headline...after all, they've done nothing but mention it since she was awarded the pole position.

Examples:
http://www.ndtv.com/photos/sports/danica-patrick-first-woman-to-take-nascar-pole-14674

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-400_162-57570987/danica-patrick-first-woman-to-lead-a-lap-at-daytona-500/

http://jalopnik.com/danica-patrick-is-now-the-first-woman-to-lead-a-lap-at-417402164

As long as there are still barriers left, there will be these kinds of headlines, no matter what the minority (or underserved majority) group. If it's not "typical," (and typical in the case of NASCAR is caucasian and male) it will be noted in the news.