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Women
Yes, you’ll get to sleep
In the introduction to 168 Hours, I quote a young woman who was answering a survey question about combining work and motherhood. Asked about her strategy, she said “I plan never to sleep.”
While that might be extreme, we certainly hear, frequently, that working mothers — and perhaps these days, fathers — must be exhausted. The National Sle… read more »
Would you get pregnant to take a year off work?
Crazy as it sounds to American mothers, over in the UK, women can take up to a year off work, partially paid, after having a baby.
Such generous benefits are designed to give moms and babies time to bond, but according to a new magazine survey (highlighted in the Daily Mail), they’re having a side effect: giving burnt-out women an escape route. Of 2000 British… read more »
Sorry, sister — dads rule this playground
I liked the cover of this week’s New Yorker. Yes, the times, they are a-changin’…… read more »
Is parenthood a job?
Every year in time for Mother’s Day, Salary.com produces a figure showing how much you’d have to pay for the job of “mom.” The answer is always in the six-figures for stay-at-home moms. It is based on mothers’ estimates of how much time they spend doing various tasks, which — like all time-use estimates — tend to be higher than what time… read more »
Equally Shared Parenting
(Laura’s note: I’m taking the week off, and revisiting some posts from past years. This book review ran in January of 2010).
Over the past few years, Marc and Amy Vachon have found themselves in the public eye for what, judging by some of the comments on blog posts about them, seems like a pretty controversial and non-traditional lifestyle. Nope… read more »
