Archive for 'daddy wars'
Odds and Ends (and Twitter)
Posted on16. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
This has been a most interesting week in dadland, but there are some smaller items that slipped through the cracks. Some of these were posted on Twitter***, so if you think they look familiar, they are.
So — if you need a break from playoff hockey — here are some nuggets:
Via Nick Senzee: This item is [...]
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Final Thoughts (for now) on Flexibility
Posted on01. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I was a bit harsh in my assessment of the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility, but good night’s sleep hasn’t caused me to renounce my skepticism. Still, in the interest of fair balance, I should say that some people who stare at the issues of work-life balance harder than me have come to some [...]
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Thoughts on Workplace Flexibility
Posted on31. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
I’ve been looking at the flow of news out of today’s Forum on Workplace Flexibility at the White House, and I’m no closer to being satisfied than I was 48 hours ago.
Here’s where I come down on the issue: there are two ways to make flexibility a reality. The first is that you change the [...]
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Negotiations and Love Songs (Mostly Negotiations)
Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Last week, I published a post about the importance of negotiations in winning the “daddy wars” between fathers and their employers. But the link I provided, as inspiring as it was, didn’t actually give much solid insight into how, exactly, dads are supposed to Fight! For Your Right! To Faaaaaaather! (Apologies to Mike D, MCA [...]
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Negotiations and the Daddy Wars
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
One of my most fundamental beliefs is that we’re coming ever-closer to widespread “daddy wars.” Unlike the mommy wars, which is a media-created fiction in which go-to-work moms and at-home moms are engaged in some sort of rivalry, the daddy wars reflects the growing conflict between fathers and their employers on the exact contours of [...]