Making New Year’s resolutions about work/life balance? If you want to tilt the scales towards either more working or more living this year, how much control does your household have to make it happen? Work/life balance conversations inevitably get framed in terms of work quantity. Are we working too much, or too little? How well […]
Acting as a proxy (it was a favor, really) for Sir Claus himself, I just bought my daughter an Easy Bake Oven. Did she ask for it? No. Does she know what it is? No. Have I thus far succeeded at keeping Amelia relatively shielded from the onslaught of virulent commercials such that she remains […]
I’m on the board of a small, parenting-related nonprofit organization, a board comprised of smart, thoughtful women who are mostly mothers of small children (and one dad, though our father pool is growing). In addition to our full-time parenting jobs, pretty much all of us have professional jobs, or are students. We’re all juggling a […]
Gender diversity is good for business. As a 2010 McKinsey Global Survey reported, 72 percent of executives “believe there is a direct connection between a company’s gender diversity and its financial success.” The study also noted that companies with the greatest gender diversity had better than average operating results and returns on equity. Yet, despite […]
When a colleague asked me a few months back if I had started dating I responded, “Dating me, even in the most seemingly casual way, is an instant commitment. I work hard for my money and if I am going to allocate dollars away from children for a date, I better get a return on […]
This piece was originally published on Business Insider and is republished here with permission. This is a response to Venture Capitalist Paige Craig’s piece on his concern about women founders and CEOS. First, thanks to Paige for the honesty, humility, and desire to start a dialogue on this important issue. In addition to him airing […]
Earlier this year, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States showed that fatherhood leads to a drop in testosterone. Fathers who are most actively involved in child rearing and caretaking experience the biggest decline. These findings, far from suggesting that men become wimps as they become […]
October is annual National Work & Family Month. Who knew? A 2003 U.S. Senate Resolution declared this to be the month of “encouraging workplaces to pause…and reflect on the progress already made on the journey to work-life effectiveness, to celebrate and then raise the bar moving on to even more pervasive progress.” Though it’s admirable […]
This piece was originally published at the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. I was a fifty-fifty child. After the divorce, my parents divided custody down the middle; my younger brother and I migrated like clockwork between their homes every three and a half days. It was logistically exhausting—which house are my cleats at? Where’s […]
This piece originally appeared on The Current Conscience. Republished with permission. Seven months ago I began actively writing about women. Two months ago I launched a website featuring my point-of-view. I discuss issues that brilliant women writers and commentators have already written and talked about for many years—these women are much more talented than I […]
This piece was originally published on YourTango as part of a special series on the End of Gender. This series includes bloggers from HyperVocal, Role/Reboot, Good Men Project, The Huffington Post, Salon, Ms. Magazine, YourTango, Psychology Today, Princess Free Zone,The Next Great Generation, and Man-Making. My parents thought they were being clever when they decided to name their youngest daughter Jordan. They envisioned a grizzled executive […]
Republished from Citibabes, where Matt Schneider is a regular contributor. Check out his other work on their site. Parenting gurus often like to point out that moms and dads are very different, and they often use back-handed statements to suggest that mothers are inherently more capable and nurturing. These experts will say things like, “dad […]
