Meet my Uncle Peter. He’s a really cool guy who happens to be an employee rights lawyer in New York and has talked with more than a thousand women and men about their work lives over the course of his career. He has a theory about why conditions are so difficult for working moms.
On NPR this week, I was asked if there’s any good in the new statistics showing that women now outnumber men in the work force. Maybe. If it lets us embrace women as breadwinners, I said, that would be healthy. Even healthier: If men do their part at home and free women to keep the [...]
A friend recently gave birth to twins. When I visited them today, she sat feeding one baby a bottle, while dad was bathing the other baby—classically—in the kitchen sink. Does this scene surprise you? Probably not, if you’re under age twenty-nine. According to a recent study by the Families and Work Institute, today many men [...]
It’s Tuesday, November 4th. It’s time to vote, time to remind all friends and family to vote, time to tell us how your voting went (scroll down), and time to… take a child to vote…
Did you vote?! How was it? Tell us about your voting experience, the issues that were top of your mind as you cast your ballot & ideas for moving forward after Election Day!
Last night my family and I ran around with a video camera taping all the places people can make reminder to vote calls. It was fun. A bit embarrassing (well a lot embarrassing!). But it’s for a good cause–the election is literally just around the corner–and my kids had a good time figuring out where to film like in the kayak, up in a tree, and other wacky places.
In the hurly burly of lunch making, homework supervising, and keeping a family on track, many busy moms miss their chance to go vote on Election Day.
You can help.
Can you take 1 hour of your time to make some phone calls from the comfort of your home to help “turn out” the mom vote?
I am glad that the 2008 election has raised the issue of working families. This has been a “sleeper” issue, but no more! After the nomination of Sarah Palin, working families are responding in such high numbers that they are jamming the airwaves, filling up blogs, even crashing websites as they make their varying opinions heard!
After watching the last Presidential debate, tell us how the candidates scored on your MomsRising Debate Bingo card! (Don’t have a Bingo card yet? Get yours by clicking here.) What scores did you get? Let’s hear how the candidates did on family-friendly issues. We’ll be sharing scores with the media and candidates as well.
Gwen Ifill was hobbled by more than a broken ankle at the vice presidential debate. The rules prevented her from asking any follow-up questions. I work with eleven statewide coalitions representing a million people, all fighting for policies that value families at work. Here are some questions we wish Gwen Ifill had been allowed to ask:
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