Family Friendly Policy

Making History: The White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, White House, President Obama, Workplace Flexibility, Joe Biden Vice President, Impact News
Ellen Galinsky

The idea of having a White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility would have been beyond anything I could have imagined when a literally handful of us c...

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

Juliet Bourke | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Work-Life Balance, Employee Benefits, Healthy Living News
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.

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Women's Labor and Infertility

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Later Motherhood, Infertility, Labor Day, Resolve, Health Care Reform, Birth Control, Work-Life Balance, Business, Delayed Childbearing, Living, Women's Work, Fathers, Healthy Living News
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.

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

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shared Work Program, Family Friendly Policy, Women's Careers, Ellen Galinsky, Economics, Breaking News, Forbes Magazine, Glass Ceiling, Cut Hours Not Jobs, Work Share, Recession, Culture of Care, Obama Inaugural Address, Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Women's Work, Breaking Living News, Business News
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.

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Never Done and Under Paid

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Equality Day, Fmla, Family Friendly Policy, Birth Control, Gdp, Women's Work, Labor Day, Lilly Ledbetter, Infertility Insurance, Economy, Breaking News, Healthy Living News
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.

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

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Census, Sex, Breaking News, Birth Rates, Cdc, Fertility, Fertility Anxiety, Living Childfree, Teen Birth Rise, Women's Work, Women's Education, Style News
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.

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