Category Archives: Economy

Dual-Income Parents: The Exhausted American Middle

By Morra | Published: March 4, 2010
I posted this on BlogHer.com this week. Back in the mythic 50s and 60s, housewives like Betty Friedan and Betty Draper were very bored. The Feminine Mystique opens with this description of an average housewife’s day: “Many women no longer left their homes, except to shop, chauffeur their children or attend a social engagement with their husbands.” Contrast [...]
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Listen to the “What Kids Really Think About Their Working Parents” Podcast

By Morra | Published: February 10, 2010
Great discussion with Ellen Galinsky, Lisa Belkin, and Dr. Joshua Coleman: click here for the podcast. (Note: the Talkshoe service doesn’t like Firefox, for some reason. If the link doesn’t work, try another browser. Sorry). Lisa Belkin blogged about the show here. For highlights, check out the live Twitter feed on Fem2pt0, with good quotes, including: # [...]
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What Do Kids Really Think About Their Working Parents? Tune in Wed. 1pm to Learn

By Morra | Published: February 8, 2010
This Wednesday, February 10, 1 PM EST, join us on Talkshoe.com, as Ellen Galinsky, president of Families and Work Institute and author of Ask the Children and Mind in the Making, moderates a discussion with Lisa Belkin, New York Times writer and author of the Motherlode blog on nytimes.com, and clinical psychologist Joshua Coleman, author [...]
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Don’t lose the family in the headlines about the State of the Union

By Ellen Galinsky | Published: January 27, 2010
Cross-posted from Huffington Post: In listening to the political commentators prepare for the State of the Union Address tonight, most of them are telling the President that he must reframe the discussion, have courage, and focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. I think that the President is doing something quite courageous that SADLY may be missed in the [...]
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Helping in the Face of Disaster

By Carol Bryce Buchanan | Published: January 25, 2010
On January 14th, Ellen Galinsky, President of Families and Work Institute, sent an email to Institute friends and colleagues asking them to tell us in a sentence or two what they or their organizations were doing to: • send aid to Haiti; • support Haitian American employees and their families in the US and in the Caribbean; • support American and [...]
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What were the most significant work life stories of 2009?

By FWInews | Published: December 8, 2009
Judy Martin writes, “Recession, a new American president, record high unemployment, women now at half the workforce and health care reform. An instant visual for a year that thrust the concept of work life balance into the headlines, while dismantling the very idea that such a dynamic even exists.” Her picks: 1. The Obama Administration takes [...]
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Time Management- a Perfect Holiday Coping Tool

By Carol Bryce Buchanan | Published: November 25, 2009
I listened to Sue Shellenbarger, the work life columnist from The Wall Street Journal, being interviewed by Brian Lehrer of NY Public Radio last week. In her November 18th column, Sue wrote about her experiments with three well-respected time management systems. As we are heading into the holidays, and I am grappling with end of [...]
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TGI…Thursday?

By FWInews | Published: November 9, 2009
A piece in New York magazine by Jennifer Senior asks, “Can Albany help solve the state-budget crisis by taking Fridays off? “Two Augusts ago, the state of Utah mandated a four-day workweek for most employees of the executive branch, on the theory that closing government offices on Fridays would save about $3 million in gas and [...]
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Lack of Paid Sick Days May Worsen Flu Pandemic

By FWInews | Published: November 3, 2009
From the New York Times: Public health experts worried about the spread of the H1N1 flu are raising concerns that workers who deal with the public, like waiters and child care employees, are jeopardizing others by reporting to work sick because they do not get paid for days they miss for illness. “We were sending 12 and [...]
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Women, Men, and Happiness

By Ellen Galinsky and Morra Aarons Mele | Published: September 23, 2009
On the Huffington Post, Marcus Buckingham dropped two pieces of disheartening news: “a) women are less happy than they were 40 years ago, compared with men, and b) as women get older, they get sadder.” Using data over time from the General Social Survey as well as five other international studies, the study Buckingham cites, [...]
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