Archive for 'gender equity'
Dads Get Driven Out at Babble
Posted on13. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
If you are quick, and you go over to Babble.com *right now* and look at the top of your browser, you’ll see the site’s tagline: “The Magazine and Community for a New Generation of Parents.” If you’re not quick, it might not be there. As you’ll see when you look at the page, Babble.com is [...]
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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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NASCAR and the Down Side of Gender Equity
Posted on24. Feb, 2010 by Brian Reid.
It seems like just yesterday that I was lamenting the continued discrimination against moms and would-be moms, warning that social forces that punished women for having children (or even looking like, maybe, someday, they might have children) would eventually come around and punish guys for the same thing. Not, via the Wall Street Journal, comes [...]