Combing Through Palin's Caregiving Record
Amazed onlookers have asked how Palin does it all, but advocates for working women are asking a different question: How will she help other women do it all.
Amazed onlookers have asked how Palin does it all, but advocates for working women are asking a different question: How will she help other women do it all.
Diane Tucker | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home
"Sen. McCain has no specific plan for children. We keep a Congressional scorecard... Senator McCain received the lowest score of anyone in the Senate in 2007."
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics
Is it possible that Governor Palin is unaware that profound bias confronts millions of working mothers in our nation?
Nanette Fondas | Posted 09.16.2008 | Living
Perhaps the image of the work-family puzzle breaking apart will help our next president see the need for robust work-family policy debate and solutions.
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics
Palin as a mom symbol is important to discuss, but there's too much at stake to get lost again in the gender wars, no matter how validating it feels to have our opinions asked.
Joan Williams | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics
Consider the other choice. If you turned down the Big Chance to get family matters on track, and then had to find another political opening later -- same question.
Steve Clemons | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics
Some in the Foreign Relations Committee office in the Senate have said that I should not read anything in to Antony Blinken being back in Washington. Right. . . Something is up -- and it's very good.
DivineCaroline.com | Caroline Wilbert | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living
Been thinking about a career change since Junior came along? You're not alone. I hear moms all the time talking about switching jobs to get more flexi...
Galt Niederhoffer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living
After four years of motherhood, I finally know the truth: mothers of young children are not in a state of bliss
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living
These days, wives are doing things we enjoy more than running errands with our days --and so an industry of concierge services, household managers and the like has sprung up to try to make the little things littler.
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living
Many women who truly want to focus on nurturing their families, and making the most of their careers realize that they're better off going it alone.
Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 06.14.2008 | Living
The dads celebrated today have come a big distance from the dads of a hundred years back, a trip they've made in concert with today's moms.
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 05.29.2008 | Living
I've always been a relatively messy person, albeit one with enough self-awareness to recognize that. Still, the clutter seemed to be winning. So I did what any modern woman would do. I called a professional organizer.
The Guardian | Zoe Williams, Imogen Tilden and Ian Prior | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living
The United States and Australia are the only two countries in the industrialised world that don't have paid statutory maternity leave (there are excep...
Joan Blades | Posted 01.01.2008 | Living
The vast majority of workplaces are still structured from the era when it was assumed that there was a wife at home full-time with the children.
moreintelligentlife.com | Miranda Green | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
A sunny morning in the affluent London suburb of Wimbledon, and the atmosphere in the playgroup is jolly, but a good deal quieter than you would expec...
Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 12.06.2007 | Living
Making it in your own business from home undoubtedly also takes drive and discipline, too. But start with not doing the laundry, and the rest can fall into place.
Heather Cabot | Posted 12.05.2007 | Living
I think we all agree that employers need to do more to retain off-ramping women and to make the work environment more family friendly. But I do think that it also requires an attitude shift on our end as women and as mothers in that at some point we do have to make some choices.
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 11.26.2007 | Living
If fathers only make 9% of pediatrician visits solo, that means we're a long way from domestic equality.
Risa Green | Posted 11.08.2007 | Living
For working mothers, there is a similar phenomenon -- a connection that we all have with other, revolving around what we call, simply, "Working Mom Moments."
Mikki Morrissette | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living
An article this week reinvigorates the debate about whether it is good or bad that more single women are replacing Mr. Right with a turkey baster in order to "knock themselves up."
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Allison Stevens | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics