Category Archives: Men/Fathers

Kids Directing Air Traffic Control: What’s the Story?

By Lois Backon | Published: March 8, 2010
I was on the treadmill, after listening to The Today Show’s 7:00 AM opening.  The lead story was about the Air Traffic Controller who brought his 8 year-old son and 8 year-old daughter to work with him, two nights in a row.  The children took the microphone, and with their Dad’s instructions, communicated with pilots [...]
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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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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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“The House of Work Is a Tear-Down”

By Morra | Published: January 14, 2010
Arresting title, and absolutely thought-provoking post from Chrysula Winegar here: “Adjusting for both factors (of access to better childcare and equal pay for the same work), I still will not be enticed back into full time work right now. Possibly not ever. I simply do not want to be away from my children for all those [...]
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Sex, Love and Labor Statistics

By FWIGuest | Published: October 5, 2009
This is a guest post from Sharon Meers, co-author of Getting to 50-50. Visit Sharon’s blog here. On NPR this week, I was asked if there’s any good in the new statistics showing that women now outnumber men in the work force.  Maybe.   If it lets us embrace women as breadwinners, I said, that would [...]
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More Women Supporting Families

By ksakai | Published: September 12, 2009
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has an interesting article about the difficult role shift many couples encounter when the wife becomes breadwinner. One couple notes, “It’s kind of difficult because the roles have switched,” Germain Patterson concedes. “It’s really hard because everyone is looking at you as the provider.” Adds Tina Patterson: “Everything falls on my [...]
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Where am I right now?

By FWIGuest | Published: August 21, 2009
by Eric Reiner At 15, I was sure I was headed to medical school. At 16, I decided that engineering was the most promising career for my future. At 17, I knew I would never conform to the system and told my family I was leaving the grid and getting my DiveMaster license in Thailand and traveling around [...]
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An interview with Carol Evans of Working Mother Media

By Morra | Published: August 17, 2009
I interviewed Carol Evans, CEO of Working Mother Media, which publishes Working Mother magazine. We started off talking about working women as they are portrayed in the media…. Q: What do you think of the current news media portrayal of working women and how it’s changed over your career? There are three big changes from the time [...]
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Jack Welch – a bummer or a truth-teller?

By FWIGuest | Published: July 16, 2009
This article is written by FWI Guest poster Andrea Sparrey. Jack Welch’s recent comments re: work/life balance and career aspirations: did they touch a nerve?  If so, what can you do? This week’s Wall St Journal article, highlighting Jack Welch’s comments at the recent SHRM conference in New Orleans raised issues that many of us have [...]
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Where in the News is FWI?

By FWInews | Published: July 13, 2009
Families and Work Institute weekly media highlights. Work-Life Integration: Womenomics: A Bill of Goods or New World Order? Laura P. Thomas discusses themes from Womenomics and how those themes play out in her life as a working mother and, as of recently, the sole breadwinner of her family. She mentions the CLC conference call with Katty Kay, Claire [...]
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