Workers around the globe have been finding it harder to juggle the demands of work and the rest of life in the past five years, a new report shows, with many working longer hours, deciding to delay or forgo having children, discontinuing education, or struggling to pay tuition for their children. Why? A big reasonContinue reading “Millennials want a work-life balance. Their bosses just don’t get why.”
Category Archives: Paid Family Leave
If We Want to Help Working Mothers, We Could Start With Paid Paternity Leave
A utopia in which working parents can balance careers and kids can’t be achieved here on Earth, or at least not without some tradeoffs. That’s the conclusion some reached after the New York Times rounded up studies showing that policies such as longer paid maternity leaves and affordable child care can help working mothers but alsoContinue reading “If We Want to Help Working Mothers, We Could Start With Paid Paternity Leave”
Every Washington legislator has a mom — so why don’t more of them care about “moms”?
Moms just can’t get a break these days. Data released by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, show that having children is one of the worst career moves a woman could make. According to their research, mothers in Washington are 44% less likely to be hired than non-mothers for the same job, and are paidContinue reading “Every Washington legislator has a mom — so why don’t more of them care about “moms”?”
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