The Breadwinning & Caregiving Program aims to create a community engaged in issues that include work-family balance, improved access to child care, our changing definition of family, and opportunities for female leadership. We seek to create a public environment that's hospitable to change, through powerful writing and informed debate about careers and families, their strengths and their needs.

  • in the news | October 21, 2013 |

    The Jetson Fallacy

    When envisioning a gleaming, medically enhanced future in which things like implant technology, super-personalized medicine, and organ regeneration...
  • book | March 20, 2012 | Breadwinning & Caregiving

    The Richer Sex

    How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family

    Bestselling journalist Liza Mundy’s smart, deeply reported analysis of the most important cultural shift since the rise of feminism: the coming era...
  • book | August 17, 2010 |

    The Tenth Parallel

    Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam

    Eliza Griswold
    The tenth parallel—the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator—is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity an...
  • policy paper | November 25, 2008 |

    A Family-Based Social Contract

    David Gray Phillip Longman
    Americans instinctively revere the family as an institution that helps facilitate all other aspects of life. The family fosters attachments across ...
  • policy paper | September 17, 2007 |

    The Stress of Balancing Work and Family

    The Impact on Parent and Child Health and the Need for Workplace Flexibility

    David Gray Kelleen Kaye
    American families confront major challenges in balancing work and family life. Workers report that they would prefer fewer hours, while new technol...

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