Advance Your Career Or Raise A Family: American Women Can Only Pick One
U.S. women’s workforce participation has been on the decline since 1999. According to a recent New York Times story “Why U.S. Women are Leaving Jobs Behind,” Europeans countries—which have expanded...
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5 Most Insane Facts About Maternity Leave In The U.S.
For a country so taken with the idea of ‘family values,’ we do a remarkably terrible job at helping people start families. For a country so taken with the idea of “family values,” the United States...
View Article4 Ways Women Are Still Getting Punished Economically
Despite all the successes of women, the white male establishment has prevailed. In 1955, Mrs. Dale Carnegie, whose husband wrote the best-seller How to Win Friends and Influence People, advised her...
View ArticleThe Terrible, Sad Reason I Was Able To Take Eight Months Of Paid Maternity Leave
We shouldn’t need the terrible luck of an inheritance in order to give our children the beginning we want. When I had my daughter in January 2014, my father—always the first to grab his checkbook when...
View ArticleWhen Mothers Are Judged For How They Take Care Of Themselves
The phrase “self-care” comes loaded with assumptions about who has the ability to care for themselves, and what kind of care is valuable. Exercise is virtuous. Devouring “Making a Murderer” in a single...
View ArticleHow Paid Family Leave Can Level Inequality
Is our sub-par family leave legislation supposed to be equally dismal for men and women? Is this the measure of equality? Today, August 26, is Women’s Equality Day. Hooray for one day! Forgive my...
View ArticleThe Shame Of Financial Struggle
Shame. It may be the single most corrosive force of our time. When my husband and I were in our final year of the MFA program where we met, we were each responsible for producing a book-length thesis....
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