By now it should come as no surprise to anyone to hear that American parents are struggling to meet the conflicting demands of their jobs and their families. As the field of work-life research has grown over the past two decades, we’ve seen hundreds of studies showing that structural changes in the American family and [...]
By Galen Sherwin, Staff Attorney ACLU Women’s Rights Project Women should not be forced to choose between breastfeeding their babies and pursuing a legal education — right? Wrong — at least according to the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC), the organization that administers the LSAT. This summer, our sister organization, MomsRising, contacted us about one [...]
Elizabeth Gedmark is a Law Fellow at A Better Balance. NBC’s new comedy show, “Up All Night,” which premiered Wednesday night stars Christina Applegate as a working mother who has just come back to work after taking maternity leave. Her husband, played by Will Arnett, is a new stay-at-home Dad who recently left his job [...]
On the list of paradoxes, not many beat flying around the world to give talks about climate change. I can justify my carbon footprint if I have to–with myself as the main moving part, we’ve managed to build 350.org into the first big global climate campaign, organizing what CNN has called the “most widespread…political activity in [...]
I’m the proud father of a 6-week old baby girl. As you can imagine, I’ve had my share of sleepless nights recently – but it’s helped me realize how lucky I am. Annie, Aaron and baby Ruby Growing up, my dad worked full-time as an elementary school teacher, and my mom did part-time accounting work, [...]
The Huffington Post recently named the growth of workplace flexibility at Fortune 500 companies as one of the top stories of the last decade. That’s no surprise if you look at corporate data. A recent survey of CEOs found that the #1 investment challenge facing business in the next decade is “obtaining human capital and optimizing human [...]
In the first ten weeks of this year, we’ve missed 11 days of work due to school holidays or a sick kid. We’re not even through the first quarter yet. If the rest of the year is like this quarter, we’ll miss more than 40 days of work by the end of the year. How can that be?
Workplace flexibility: eighty percent of American employees say they want it, nearly half of job seekers rate it as a higher priority than salary, and thousands of companies have embraced it as an efficient way to keep employees happy and boost business productivity. But despite all this, there is still a widespread misconception that workplace [...]
We hear a lot about the struggles modern parents face in juggling work and family needs. Meeting the demands of today’s 24-hour, blackberry-fueled workplace and still finding time for your kids (let alone time for yourself) can seem next to impossible. But here’s the thing that should really scare every busy, overworked parent: it doesn’t get [...]
When Adele Diamond of the University of British Columbia wants to assess the brain development of young children, she often uses a task called the Day/Night Task. A child is shown a picture of night (a moon) and is supposed to say the opposite (day). Then he or she is shown a picture of day [...]
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