Family Friendly Policy

Peaceful Revolution: Facing Up to the Consequences of Paying Lip Service to the "Work/Life" Agenda

Juliet Bourke | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living


Juliet Bourke

We may title policies "work/life," but what we really mean is "work/family," and those who get pride of place even in this group are parents.

Women's Labor and Infertility

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living


Elizabeth Gregory

Released from old biological constraints, women have flooded the universities and climbed career ladders, redefining "women's work" by expanding it to include just about every field, and doubling our national talent pool.

A Family-Friendly Recession?: Cut Hours, Not Jobs

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business


Elizabeth Gregory

During a recession, gains for women earned through years of effort may be swept away in the undertow of layoffs, when flexibility and diversity efforts suddenly disappear.

Never Done and Under Paid

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living


Elizabeth Gregory

This year Labor Day and Women's Equality Day bookend the week: a timely conjunction, since tension over what properly constitutes women's work is the crux of much of our current public discourse.

Births Up -- No, Down!: Stats and the Politics of Fertility Anxiety

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 09.27.2008 | Style


Elizabeth Gregory

Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.