Following a divisive election, new poll results released today by the National Partnership for Women & Families reveal that the nation’s voters are united in their support for making the nation’s workplaces more family friendly. Across party and demographic lines, an overwhelming majority of those surveyed said they struggle to manage their work and family responsibilities — and thatContinue reading “New Poll Shows Bipartisan Voter Mandate for Family Friendly Workplace Policies”
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Where is the best place to be a mother? Not the U.S.
By Janice D’Arcy | USA Today Where’s the best place in the world to be a mother? Norway, according to a report released by Save the Children. Iceland and Sweden came in respectively at second and third. “The Best and Worst Places to Be a Mom” report compared factors such as maternal health, education andContinue reading “Where is the best place to be a mother? Not the U.S.”
Calling on the candidates to debate real family issues
By Janice D’Arcy || USA Today Recently a group of about two dozen care-giving advocates, many of them children’s advocates too, gathered in a conference overlooking K Street to brainstorm about how to make care policies more prominent in the presidential campaign. There was a universal agreement from the group that the attention to family-friendlyContinue reading “Calling on the candidates to debate real family issues”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 