Archive for 'economy'
Overworked Husbands=At-Home Moms (But Not Vice Versa)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, I posted on Katherine Lewis’ great WaPo Magazine story on the struggles of a woman to get back into the workforce. But there is an even bigger question that undergirds that whole article: what drives people out of the workforce in the first place? This is the great unmentionable in “opt-out revolution” stories in [...]
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NPR’s Half-Hearted Look at Re-Entering the Workforce
Posted on25. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, NPR took a look at at-home dads, and they started the in the usual, easy, formulaic way: at an at-home dad playgroup (in this case, one of the ones in my old stomping ground). And then the piece pivots to talk about a big and important issue: how dads get back into the workforce [...]
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The Latest from Working Mother on Hopeless Fathers
Posted on17. Feb, 2010 by Brian Reid.
A few months back, I dutifully flagged a request from a Working Mother reporter who was putting together a piece on how families were coping with role reversals in cases where the economy flipped breadwinner roles. This is a danger-zone topic for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it lends [...]