What happens when your job just doesn't fit with your life? To mark National Work and Family Month we're looking at inspiring people who have successfully reinvented their jobs to make sense with their lives.

Chrysula Winegar has been chronicling some of these people in her

The Boston College Center for Work and Family recently surveyed 1,000 working fathers employed at Fortune 500 companies, asking them where their desires, priorities and realities are when it comes to work and family.

Their study, The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted, reveals some...

We hear a lot about the struggles modern parents face in juggling work and family needs. Meeting the demands of today's 24-hour, Blackberry-fueled workplace and still finding time for your kids (let alone time for yourself) can seem next to impossible. But here's the thing that should really...

The New York Times ran a fascinating piece this week about professional part-time work in the Netherlands. It seems the Dutch have had more success than most of us in finding ways to balance work and family life. Most interesting to me is that their workplace flexibility movement...

We're all aware that the gender balance has shifted over the past half-century, both in the workplace and in family life. But how much has really changed? Some of the answers may surprise you.

The structure of the American family has changed, and it is not changing back. But...

We juggle more responsibilities today than ever before. Work. School. Childcare. Elder care. Volunteerism. The list goes on. There is simply not enough time in the day for everything we're expected to do. Unfortunately, scientists still haven't figured out how to add more hours to the day. But we do...