When I was reporting my book on time pressure, “Overwhelmed,” I was struck by just how much time American parents spend with their children, both mothers and fathers, and how much “leisure” time for many middle class families was spent racing from one …
A New York Times magazine story takes a look at couples who attempt to share in household chores but who aren’t too active between the sheets.
Mom calendars reinforce long-held assumptions that “good” moms should be solely in charge of all things domestic.
Yes, it’s true men and women work about the same number of hours in a week. But the key questions are: what kind of work? where? with whom? and how did that make you feel? Men work more uninterrupted hours in paid work. Women’s time is fragmented betwe…
Yes, it’s true men and women work about the same number of hours in a week. But the key questions are: what kind of work? where? with whom? and how did that make you feel? Men work more uninterrupted hours in paid work. Women’s time is fragmented betwe…
They’re just not that into you: Children’s time during their waking hours spent with their parents drops from 35 percent in 5th through 8th grades, to 14 percent in high school. “The adolescent,” writes Adam Phillips, the British psychoanalyst, “is somebody who is trying to get himself kidnapped from a cult.”
time, time management, procrastination
Getting to 50/50 shows that it isn’t just women who want to have it all, not do it all, but both men and women want rich, full lives. As humans.
Brad Warthen was one of the best editors I’ve ever had in journalism. We both worked crazy, long hours because that’s what everyone who’d been “called” to this profession was doing. But working crazy long hours is not only making us all sick and stupid…
Workers in Rhode Island will be among few in the nation able to, by law, take several weeks of paid leave.