Womens Work

Reflections on Labor Day

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Immigrants, Labor, Workers, Labor Day, Wealth Gap, Illegal Immigrants, Income Gap, Minimum Wage, Sexism, Immigrant Workers, Women's Work, Los Angeles News
Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

The stratification of the job market is even more acute today than it was in my youth. Adult immigrants are trying to raise families on the kind of jobs I did as a way of contributing to my college expenses.

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What Work Could Gilded Age Women Do?

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Edith Wharton, Women's Rights, The House of Mirth, New York City, Employment, New York Times, Jobs, Women in Business, Women's Work, Women Entrepeneurs, The Gilded Age, American Novels, Novels, American Literature, Women News
Lev Raphael

Remember Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth? Remember how faded socialite Lily Bart drops down the social ladder, from unpaid secretary for her wealt...

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What's a Mother's Work Worth to You?

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Breaking News Living, Stay at Home Mothers' Pay Equivalent, Home Economics, Pay Equity, Business, Women's Work, Working Mothers, Healthy Living News
Elizabeth Gregory

According to a report estimating how much it would cost to pay someone else for the work we do at home, stay-at-home moms would get $117,856, and moms with outside jobs would earn $71,860 above their salaries.

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Pushing Babies: The Assault on Childless Women

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infertility, Fertility-Anxiety, Birth Control, Fertility, Teen Birth Rate, Childless Women, Babies, Women's Work, Birth Rate, Politics, Living News, Media, Media News
Elizabeth Gregory

Because fertility is experienced as a very personal issue, it ends up getting very little critical discussion. Time for an honest exploration of the dynamics of birth timing and women's work, especially in our recession.

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Feminomics: A Woman's Place - Still in the (Poor) House

Meizhu Lui | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women and Business, Equal Pay, Women's Work, Feminism, Business News
Meizhu Lui

The American myth is that hard work makes you rich. But the work of enslaved people didn't make African-Americans rich. Women's work never made women rich.

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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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Childcare as Infrastructure: Minting the Common Wealth

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Women's Work, National Childcare Network, French Childcare, Economy, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, Childcare, Obama, Barack Obama, Jobs Creation, Elder Care, Family Friendliness, Health Care, Culture of Care, Politics, Breaking News, Living, Home News
Elizabeth Gregory

While Obama aims to fund traditional infrastructure-maintenance work, in the big picture, good, affordable childcare shores up infrastructure of an even more essential kind, our citizens.

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Kisses for My President: Work/Family Balance in the White House and in Your House

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Fred MacMurray, Entertainment, Polly Bergen, Childcare, Sarah Palin Vice President, Living, Hillary Clinton, Geena Davis, Women's Work, Breaking News, Home Work, Politics, Work/Family Balance, Economy, Economic Rebuilding, Politics News
Elizabeth Gregory

While this political season won't yield a woman president, it has seen a movement of women into the political forefront as never before.

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Sarah Palin Helps the Dems -- But What about the Ladies?

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann Crittenden, Readiness, Fmla, John McCain, Women's Work, Kathleen Parker, Childcare, Bob Herbert, Fathers and Childcare, Hillary Clinton, Separate Tax Filing, Democrats, Living, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Breaking News, Politics News
Elizabeth Gregory

Will Palin's difficulty on the big stage set back the progress of women into higher office?

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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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