{"id":3382,"date":"2015-11-07T00:28:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T05:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2015-11-07T00:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T05:28:33","slug":"this-woman-ceo-is-changing-the-rules-and-building-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/this-woman-ceo-is-changing-the-rules-and-building-an-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"This Woman CEO Is Changing The Rules And Building An Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0<a class=\"link ng-binding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/samanthaettus\/\" target=\"_self\">Samantha Ettus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Stacey Bendet returned to work just six days after giving birth to her third child, it wasn\u2019t at all what you might think. As with most newborns, Bendet\u2019s slept almost all day long. So on the Monday that she returned, Bendet\u00a0arrived at the office after dropping her two daughters at school, worked for a few hours, breastfed her baby during her lunch hour and returned home at around 1 or 2 pm. This is the life of a CEO. This is the life of an entrepreneur. This is a life. It doesn\u2019t need to be your life, but Bendet asks that you not judge her for it being hers.<\/p>\n<p>I interviewed the Alice and Olivia CEO and Creative Director\u00a0at her office 12 days after she had her baby. It was only months after\u00a0Marissa Mayer\u00a0was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/life-style\/yahoo-ceo-marissa-mayer-sparks-maternity-leave-debate-article-1.2345038)%20\" target=\"_self\">publicly flogged<\/a>\u00a0for announcing that she planned to return to the office weeks after she will have\u00a0her twins rather than taking the full paid two months offered by\u00a0Yahoo. We seem to have become confused; since when did fighting for parental leave go hand in hand with insisting that all women take the same leave or handle their post pregnancy lives in the same manner?<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t all use our vacation or sick days the same way, so why are we suddenly criticizing each other for how we take\u00a0parental leave? We all parent differently, love differently, and manage our careers differently. So why should we insist that all women have the same experience after they give birth?<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0-inread\" class=\"inread ng-isolate-scope inread-active\"><\/div>\n<p>Back to Bendet. When she posted photos of herself back at work so soon after her C-section, the critics emerged on social media but Bendet was nonplussed. She feels strongly that, \u201cas a mom it is really important to recognize who you are and what makes you feel happy because that\u2019s what makes you be the best mother. I like to be busy. I like to create things. That\u2019s who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alice and\u00a0Olivia offers employees\u00a0eight weeks of maternity leave\u00a0but Bendet is focused on employee retention and believes that\u00a0maintaining a flexible approach to the policy is critical: \u201cWe organize things around people.\u201d Bendet\u00a0points to an employee who has Fridays off and she is open to employees doing what she did \u2013 returning to work quickly and working part time for five months instead of taking eight straight weeks off. \u201cYou have to learn what works best for them,\u201d she emphasizes. Bendet is proud that 93% of her employees who have had babies return after to Alice and Olivia after their leave. She boasts that even her fit model returned after giving birth to\u00a0her second child. As for her own choices, she explains:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/samanthaettus\/2015\/11\/04\/shes-building-an-empire\/?ss=forbes-woman\" target=\"_blank\">CONTINUE THIS ARTICLE &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0Samantha Ettus When Stacey Bendet returned to work just six days after giving birth to her third child, it wasn\u2019t at all what you might think. As with most newborns, Bendet\u2019s slept almost all day long. 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