Tag Archives: childcare

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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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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What does it mean to provide for your family?

By Morra | Published: November 19, 2009
Two stories, on the flip side of parenting, each moving and sad and familiar to all too many: 21-year old Alexis Hutchinson is the parent of a 10 month old boy. She is a single parent. She is a cook in the Army, and she had orders to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, but she [...]
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Job Sharing: Two moms, one car, great flexibility

By Morra | Published: October 26, 2009
In 2008, 2008, Families and Work Institute found that of 1,100 companies surveyed nationwide, 31 percent offered job sharing. If you’re thinking about job sharing, getting the details right seems to be a big part of the battle. A few weeks ago we wrote about two magazine sales’ executives job sharing scheme. This weekend,  the St. [...]
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Where in the news is FWI?

By FWInews | Published: June 29, 2009
Families and Work Institute media highlights for the week of June 22-26, 2009. Work & Fatherhood: Peaceful Revolution: Millennial Dads Bend Traditional Gender Roles In this Huffington Post article, Nanette Fondas uses Families and Work Institute research to show that traditional roles of men and women are shifting and that men’s attitudes towards this shift, more so than [...]
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