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Second Shift

On Presidents, Aprons and Second Shifts

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.19.2012 | Women
Read More: Women's Vote, Second Shift, Women's Issues, Presidential Election, Mitt Romney, Work-Life Balance, Undecided: How to Ditch the Endless Quest for Perfect and Find a Career -- and Life -- That Works for You, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, Aprons, Gender Roles, Workplace, Binders, New York Times, Roe v. Wade, Family Issues, Gender Pay Equity, Women Voters, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

I'm starting to wonder if this presidential election might hinge on aprons.

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It's Not Me... It's You

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Personal Responsibility, Yoga, Worklife Balance, Second Shift, Undecided, Mindfulness, Gender Pay Gap, Ann Charlott Alstadt, Structural Change, Happiness, Perfection, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

So much of the rhetoric these days is about us taking responsibility for how we react and feel. But what if our negative reactions are normal and warranted?

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The #1 Country To Be A Woman Of (Slightly More) Leisure

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 05.05.2012 | Women
Read More: Best Country for Women, Women's Rights, Gender Gap, Second Shift, Household Chores, Best Place to Live as a Woman, 2011 Global Gender Gap Report, Unpaid Labor, Global Gender Gap Report, Slidepollajax, Women News

We already knew from the World Economic Forum's 2011 Global Gender Gap Report that, according to criteria like health, economic and educational partic...

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A Care Revolution... in America?

Katrina Alcorn | Posted 04.30.2012 | Parents
Read More: Stress, Gender Revolution, Second Shift, Feminism, Working Mothers, Parents, Working Moms, Parents News
Katrina Alcorn

A new version of "The Second Shift" just came out last month. The author compares the status of working mothers around the time the book was first published to where we are now.

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Give Mom a Break

Tony Schwartz | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Renewal, Arlie Hochschild, Catalyst, Balance, Mother's Day, Second Shift, Healthy Living News
Tony Schwartz

I'm awed by the complex lives that so many women I know -- most especially the single mothers -- manage with such grace. I'm also aware what they sacrifice, which is most often themselves.

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