Items tagged ‘breadwinning-and-caregiving-in-the-news’
- in the news | January 29, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Parental Leave Could be for Dad, Too
Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of the New America Foundation, said offering paternity leave would mean more workplace equality for women a... - in the news | January 21, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
How the Future of Work May Make Many of Us Happier
"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 t... - in the news | January 20, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
How To Shake Up Gender Norms
But will continuing to challenge gender norms and document their harmful impacts lead to their extinction? To answer that question, we need to firs... - in the news | January 12, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Women can't end sexism in the workplace just by showing up
Judging by the outrageous sexism recounted in Mundy’s article and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s book last year that included her treatment by male c... - in the news | January 07, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
What’s 80% White, 80% Male and 92% Christian? Welcome to the 114th Congress!
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 Unite... - in the news | January 06, 2015 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
The Secret History 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 mea... - in the news | December 26, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
What really scares terrorists
But a stronger emphasis on progress towards gender equality would help clarify the importance this issue holds for the United States, and perhaps i... - in the news | December 03, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
SCOTUS hears pregnancy discrimination case
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. N... -
100 Women in Congress? So What.
Even as women make up nearly 60 percent of college students; even as law schools, practically a manufacturing plant for nascent politicians, are ha... - in the news | October 15, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Facebook, Apple offer to pay workers to freeze their eggs
Katherine Taylor, lawyer and bioethicist, and journalist Liz Mundy join Andrea Mitchell to discuss Facebook’s and Apple’s announcement that they wi... - in the news | September 19, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Sad Dads in the Empty Nest
The empty-nest transition is harder on fathers than conventional wisdom might have us believe. Men’s experience of this life passage has changed dr... - in the news | September 11, 2014 | Breadwinning & Caregiving
Book review:
‘Daring: My Passages’ by Gail Sheehy
She belongs to a generation whose lives took place on both sides of a major American fault line.