Astri von Arbin Ahlander and Yelizavetta Kofman
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Astri von Arbin Ahlander is a writer and translator from Stockholm, Sweden. Her most recent book translation is the Swedish bestseller "Easy Money", published by Pantheon in April, 2012. She is the Editor of the interview site The Days of Yore (www.thedaysofyore.com), which she co-founded. She also co-founded The Lattice Group, a non-profit research organization that aims to raise awareness about work-life balance issues among Generation Y.

Yelizavetta Kofman, Co-Founder of The Lattice Group and sometimes resident of Los Angeles, California via St. Petersburg, Russia, is an aspiring sociologist of sorts.

About The Lattice Group:

The Lattice Group is a grassroots non-profit organization that engages young people in a public dialogue about the issues that arise when trying to balance personal, family, and work obligations in a globalized economy. Founded in 2007 by two graduating Middlebury College students concerned with the inflexibility of of the American work culture they were about to enter, The Lattice Group conducts non-partisan, comparative research on work-life issues through the lens of young people. The Lattice Group also provides an online platform for Gen Y-Fi to articulate the issues within today's workforce and identify changes that employers and the government should implement.

Blog Entries by Astri von Arbin Ahlander and Yelizavetta Kofman

Peaceful Revolution: EU: Don't Force Women to Stay Home!

Posted March 10, 2010 | 23:31:23 (EST)

The European Union Commission has proposed a new directive, to be voted on in March, that would make maternity leave compulsory for the first six weeks after a woman gives birth. You read that correctly -- compulsory. As in, women would be forced to stay home, regardless of their own...

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Peaceful Revolution: What Gen Y Really Wants -- And Why We Should Care

Posted January 22, 2009 | 11:13:22 (EST)

While conducting research on the work-life balance outlooks of crème de la crème Gen Y-ers (highly educated young people around the world, what we like to call Gen Y-Fi), we asked forty American college students and young professionals what kind of benefits they were looking for from potential employers. By...

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Peaceful Revolution: Gen Y-Fi - A Call to Arms

Posted May 14, 2008 | 16:27:11 (EST)

Growing up in an America where - until very recently, and for a select segment of society - prosperity seemed to know no bounds, raised by parents who told us we could be anything we wanted to be, educated in a picturesque liberal arts college where men and women swapped...

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