A lot has changed when it comes to global paternity leave, but experts at New America recently say we have a long way to go before we reach equality.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation, said offering paternity leave would mean more workplace equality for women and have long-term benefits for children. When men take time off work after having a child, they and the mother are more equal partners than when only the mother stays home, Slaughter, whose husband stayed home with her and their son for four months, said. “I would argue in some ways that he was more competent,” Slaughter said.

"The on-demand economy must become a care economy in one other crucial way. We will have to care enough about all platform workers to ensure that they can earn a living wage, have access to good healthcare and education and be able to provide for their futures.

But will continuing to challenge gender norms and document their harmful impacts lead to their extinction? To answer that question, we need to first consider another: What’s so bad about traditional gender norms and the way we currently categorize men and women?

Instead of working harder to be more productive, we need to work smarter by taking time out to relax and connect with friends and family.

Former Fellow and Washington Post staff writer Brigid Schulte says history and research prove that the key to harnessing our creative potential lies in working smarter, not longer.

Judging by the outrageous sexism recounted in Mundy’s article and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s book last year that included her treatment by male coworkers, it seems whatever progress has been made is happening at an unacceptably slow pace.

But it is Liza Mundy’s article “The Secret History of Women in the Senate” that positively makes my teeth hurt. “In the entire history of the United States Senate, a mere 44 women have served. Ever. Those few who have were elected to a club they were never meant to join, and their history in the chamber is marked by sexism both spectacular and small.” That is one pathetic statistic.

With a new year and a new Congress underway, Breadwinning and Caregiving Director Liza Mundy examines the past and present of women in the Senate

In the entire history of the United States Senate, a mere 44 women have served. Ever. Those few who have were elected to a club they were never meant to join, and their history in the chamber is marked by sexism both spectacular and small

But a stronger emphasis on progress towards gender equality would help clarify the importance this issue holds for the United States, and perhaps inspire other global institutions to make gender equality a priority.

Can an employer fire a pregnant employee if he or she feels the worker cannot complete her job duties? The Supreme Court could soon rule on that. NBC News’ Pete Williams reports, and New American Foundation director Liza Mundy joins msnbc to discuss the case.

Even as women make up nearly 60 percent of college students; even as law schools, practically a manufacturing plant for nascent politicians, are half-female; even given the remarkable strides women have made in the past half-century, Congress—like Wall Street, like the digital behemoths of Silicon Valley—hardly reflects this massive demographic shift. Permeate politics! Hardly.

The company wants your eggs. What do you do? What. Do you do?

Katherine Taylor, lawyer and bioethicist, and journalist Liz Mundy join Andrea Mitchell to discuss Facebook’s and Apple’s announcement that they will pay female employees to freeze their eggs.

Where is feminism going and where has it been? Critics Salamishah Tillet, Rebecca Traister, Judith Shulevitz, and Anna Holmes offer some answers.

“They definitely look at their businesses different [from men],” Ms. Wilson said about female entrepreneurs during an interview Monday at the CORE Club in New York, in which she and Mr. Wilson, the founder of Union Square Ventures, were interviewed by Anne-Marie Slaughter, president of New America Foundation.

Vivek Wadhwa, Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinker and co-author of Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology, spoke with New America's Liza Mundy.

The empty-nest transition is harder on fathers than conventional wisdom might have us believe. Men’s experience of this life passage has changed dramatically from what they might have felt — or admitted feeling — 40 years ago.