Hugo Schwyzer responds to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent Atlantic piece, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.” Like everyone else this month, I’ve been reading one of the great viral articles of the first half of 2012: Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Why Women Still Can’t Have it All. Loosely defined as a satisfying, lucrative career, a stable romantic […]
Judith Rosenbaum’s father didn’t preach about being feminist, he lived it, and it is through his example that Judith learned what a truly egalitarian partnership looks like. I call myself a second-generation feminist, and when I do so, I’m thinking of my mom. A pioneer of the Second Wave, a path-breaking women’s historian, and a […]
Al Watts, a stay-at-home dad for the last decade, discusses the findings of a new study released yesterday that analyzes fatherhood in the 21st century and how it affects moms and dads in the workplace. When we decided I would become an at-home dad, we didn’t consider how it would affect my career or my […]
A stay-at-home dad, Ken Miller hated it when someone at his wife’s corporate functions would ask “What do you do?” until he got some good advice from another party frequenter. The first time I heard it was around 2000, about two or three years after I’d stopped working to stay home for our two kids. […]
This originally appeared on Fem2.0. Republished here with permission. In virtually every occupation, women earn less than men of comparable experience, education, and seniority. From the moment a woman throws her graduation cap into the air to the moment she retires, she earns less than a similar man. This difference is commonly quantified as a […]
In response to a recent Washington Post article that asserts that two-parent households are better, Perry Threlfall defends single motherhood and says that getting married just to raise a child could prove disastrous. In her recent Washington Post opinion piece, “20 years later, it turns out Dan Quayle was right about Murphy Brown and unmarried […]
Katerina Zacharia discusses why using the term “on ramp” to describe women returning to the workforce after having children is inaccurate, at best, and insulting, at worst. I’m troubled that we use the term “on ramp” to describe women returning back to the workforce after prioritizing childrearing. I’m specifically uncomfortable that we locate women who […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. More Men Enter Fields Dominated By Women by Shaila Dewan and Robert Gebeloff of The New York Times says that more and more men are starting to see the benefits of jobs long-dominated by women. […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. In Praise of Single Mothers by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon of The Atlantic says that politicians accuse them of destroying “the fabric of this country” but, as one daughter attests, they’re holding society together. 2. Share […]
A few decades ago, calling an at-home dad “Mr. Mom” may have been as funny as the famous Michael Keaton movie, but times have changed, and Al Watts thinks that nickname should too. In 1983, a very funny movie starring Michael Keaton and Teri Garr was released called Mr. Mom. It’s not so funny to […]
This originally appeared on Huffington Post. Republished here with permission. Nothing drives me as crazy as those women who act like some horrible tragedy has befallen my children and me when they hear I am divorced…yes, twice. I can never believe people like that still exist in this day and age, and I’m always shocked […]
This week’s roundup of our favorites from across the interwebs to help you make sense of men and women. 1. The President’s Gift by Emily Bazelon of Slate.com dissects what Obama’s personal support for gay marriage means for the law. 2. Attachment Parenting: Freakish or Feminist? by Tracie Egan Morrissey of Jezebel.com looks at the […]
