Despite boasting one of the nation’s first universal pre-k programs, parents in Georgia still struggle to make sense of the dollars and cents of the state’s early care. At the end of a long day of work at a small sports-marketing firm in Atlanta, a very pregnant Micki Velmer is driving to pick up her […]
“My top productivity tip? Compassion. Wait, what? Aren’t productivity tips typically about shifting mindset, single tasking, deep focus, working in pulses, and a host of other useful tools? Yes. And all those tools can help us be fantastically productive, effective, and even more creative. “But what compassion recognizes is that we’re human. We’re going to […]
WRITE A ONE-ITEM TO-DO LIST “This past year, my work became infinitely more complex,” says Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, who now directs the Better Life Lab at the think tank New America. Her solution? Scrapping her long, unfinished to-do lists and replacing them with […]
FOR MOST OF my career as a journalist, I’ve had no idea whether I made as much money as my male colleagues with equal education, experience, performance, and that ineffable and often highly subjective quality, “talent.” In many newsrooms, like much of corporate America, talking about pay is either actively discouraged, prohibited, or simply not […]
The current child care system in the United States isn’t working well for anyone, even though the majority of children in the United States are being raised in families where all parents work for pay, and the majority of children have, since the 1990s, been in some form of “non-maternal” care from the age of […]
Paid leave is inevitable. The U.S. should learn from other countries how to do it right.
The pressure on moms has never been higher
Tuesday is International Women’s Day, and it’s time to start talking about men. It is also fitting to reflect on how far women have to go before this year’s motto, Pledge for Parity, becomes a reality. The World Economic Forum estimates that the global gender gap won’t close until the year 2133, when my 14-year-old […]
There was historic news out of the Pentagon last week, but it wasn’t about new weapons or an operation against ISIS. Instead it was Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s plan to remake the US military by placing “a higher priority on work/life balance,” rewiring how it handles the changing ways we think of parenting in […]
The new paid parental leave policy the Pentagon announced last week is part of a sweeping effort to overhaul the way the military recruits, retains, and promotes people to ensure the top talent stays and the so-called “Force of the Future” is ready to fight and win the nation’s wars most effectively. It’s a good […]