Husband irvings are here i was by her personal journey and undying faith in humanity. I also learned she and Justice Ginsburg when we moved to washington, it seems natural to organize the conversation between these two extraordinary women. Iat opportunity arose when had the privilege of attending a small private dinner. She had Justice Ginsburg with and i asked her if this if this group would be interested in a conversation. It became this threesome. It would not have been possible had Justice Ginsburg not reached out to doris. This evening is the result of the support of many extraordinary women who pull their resources together. , the three justices, of course, misses wilhelmina holiday. She has the only Museum Dedicated to a woman in the arts in the world. Judy woodruff, icon in journalism. Misses bennett, a force of nature in washington. My friend connie milstein. And many, many others. This evening, this conversation is truly historic and we have gathered three women from three s
She was able to enroll her twins into four, fourday kindergarten next year and start friday fun days this summer. Not only is jamie getting to spend time with her kids, she is, she also has peace of mind that every monday she wont with to catch up on a days worth of missed meetings. Rei was another company that participated in the discussion. They allow for flexible commuting to employees can go in earlier and miss rush hour. Im sure that is something everybody here can relate to coming into washington. As an Outdoors Company they also want their work place culture to encourage employees to live healthy lives. What they refer to as nature nutures. So they encourage employees to get outside, go for a hike, and engage in activities that they enjoy outdoors. Pretty nice, huh . The participants also discuss other ways to address many of the challenges every working family faces offering on site day care, providing a set amount of paid leave and connecting workers with elder care programs.
That is designed by diane von furstenberg. Cost 1800 which is more than the standard version. The roar of the Harley Davidson and you will be more like a hum with the First Electric harley. The company will be taking a few dozen of these on a tour of the u. S. And riders will test drive the bikes and get some feedback back to the company so harley will create something new. To buystrikes a deal microsystems. The Software Giant is under pressure to boost sales growth. Oracle paid 5. 3 billion for the marylandbased company. Its a pointofsale system for hotels and restaurants and retailers. Oracle has been talking to these guys along times, six years. That deal fell through but this one is a big deal, the biggest purchase in 2010. The microtem sun system fell through was that for oracle. Deal. S an interesting its not just a software company. Isexactly right, about 2 3 services and 20 is hardware and 10 is software. Its really about the push into the retail market. Oracle had an interest
Them out into the community and then you dont track their results out in the private sector or if you send them out and there are no providers in the private sector, we really have just kind of traded the devil for the witch. We havent solved the problem. I very much appreciate that, congress woman. I want to be clear about one thing. I wasnt suggesting we would send primary care providers to camp for three weeks and then they would be oggyns by any stretch of the imagination. This was more to be in the coordinating role and to be able to provide some basic services but also to make shoo your that people got the services that they needed in a timely fashion and i would just say that our top consultants in Womens Health of urgent sit would be her middle name, but i will be happy to get back to you about the mammography issue specifically. Thank you. I yield backing wrxt rope, youre recognized for five minutes. I thank the chairman. Im glad its not three weeks, it took me 30 years of exp
Everybody have a seat. You look like you have been busy. I know that is right. Good afternoon, everybody. Have a seat. I love you back. I do. Welcome to the white house summit on working families. And thanks for joining us. I know that for most of you you are taking time off of work or family or both to be here and i know that is a sacrifice and i know just juggling schedules can be tough. That is one of the reasons we are here today. I want to thank our cohosts, secretary of labor tom perez. Give him a big round of applause. As well as everyone at the center for American Progress for the great work they did. Thanks to the members of congress who are participating especially nancy pelosi and members of the democratic womens working group. And a longtime friend and champion of families and women and veterans, connie milstein. We could not have pulled this off without connies great assistance. I walked over to to bully chipotles for lunch. I caused a lot of havoc. I went there with four