The last post examined how in recessions women’s movement up career ladders has historically suffered setbacks, with long-term negative effects. Can we break the recessionary pattern today? Absolutely. Firstly, as Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute notes, flexibility
We’ve heard a lot recently about how this recession is affecting men’s jobs more than women’s. But while women’s relative labor-force participation rises in recessions, most of the jobs women hold on to earn small wages and low status. In
Family Friendly Recession?: Cut Hours, Not Jobs We’ve heard a lot recently about how this recession is affecting men’s jobs more than women’s. But while women’s relative labor-force participation rises in recessions, most of the jobs women hold on to
Darn It!: Recycling Frugality As jobs disappear, stocks plummet and credit freezes, many of us are cutting expenses and looking for ways to save. This is new territory for most of us, who’ve grown up in the age of disposability
Mother Knows Best Woman gives birth at 70 — isn’t that ridiculous? Or worse, isn’t it unethical, to bear kids you might not be around to see into adulthood? Those aren’t my questions — they’re the undertow in all the
Childcare as Infrastructure In presenting his plan for an economic recovery last week, President-elect Obama spoke of creating 2.5 million jobs by 2011–jobs that would both address the immediate crisis and work as long-term growth engines, by shoring up our
The likelihood is, whatever your age, that you’re aspiring to be even older. Whether she thinks about it this way or not, every young woman who hopes to live long and happily aspires to being an old lady. And every