But back to my department. I have a different theory about why this particular\u00a0department\u00a0is so desirable to working moms. It is based\u00a0on\u00a0
how we do our scheduling<\/em>.\u00a0 Like all ER’s we are required to work 12 shifts a month, 1\/4 of which are nights, 1\/4 of which are weekends.\u00a0BUT…I\u00a0have a\u00a0control over\u00a0which combination of Saturday\/Sundays I work. When I was single, I worked all\u00a0Sundays\u00a0and went out with friends\u00a0on Saturdays. When I got married I worked every other full weekend, so we could go away for the weekend occasionally. When I had kids, I started working Saturdays. The flexibility of moving my schedule as my life moves forward has been critical in sustaining and maintaining happiness in my career. There is nothing unfair or one-sided about workplace flexibility. It works for BOTH men and women.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor’s Note: The recent commentary\u00a0in ACEPNow on women in EM prompted Dr. Yafai to pen her thoughts. \u00a0 To all those ER physicians who are angry with “supporting” your female colleague who is pregnant or otherwise woman-ly disabled, The thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":2712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[130],"coauthors":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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