Archive for 'work-like balance'
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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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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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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Workplace Flexibility Jumps to the Top of the Agenda (Kinda)
Posted on30. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Tomorrow, the White House will host a Forum on Workplace Flexibility in which the President and the First Lady will “will discuss the importance of creating workplace practices that allow America’s working men and women to meet the demands of their jobs without sacrificing the needs of their families.” It’s a great sentiment, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 the [...]
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The ‘Missing Middle’ and Why We Need Smarter Work-Life Policies in the U.S.
Posted on18. Feb, 2010 by Brian Reid.
One of the great risks of taking a hiatus is that you’ll miss something really important. And I did. Last month, two of my favorite thinkers on the American Family (Joan Williams of UC Hastings Law and Heather Boushey of Center for American Progress) pushed out an incredibly detailed report on the state of work-life [...]
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Cleaning Out the Mailbag
Posted on19. Dec, 2006 by Brian Reid.
There are a few things piling up in the inbox that have been neglected lately, and I wanted to bring some of them to you. Lemme start with Dad Center an online dad magazine from Don Leiser, the guy behind DadStaysHome.com. Don is looking for some working dads to contribute, so if you’re interested, surf [...]