This week Jennifer Fraone, Marketing and Communications Director for the Boston College Center for Work & Family, appeared on one of Boston's local television stations to do our monthly "Work-Life Wednesday" segment. We've been doing these regular pieces for nearly a year and it has been a great...

In honor of National Work and Family Month, I was asked to write some thoughts on the subject. Many excellent articles by our field's leading thinkers have been appearing that explore policies and programs that could or should be implemented to advance the work and family...

Last week, the Boston College Center for Work & Family released the results of a study we completed on nearly 1,000 American fathers. "The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted" explores the experience of mainly "white collar" fathers who work in large American companies. The results present a...

In homes across America, fathers are launching a quiet revolution. Catalyzed by the women's movement, an enormous demographic shift in higher education (women now earn 57% of college degrees), and a brutal recession in which men experienced more than 70% of the 8 million job losses in the US economy,...