Families and Work

Families & Unpaid Work

• Honey, I Swept the Floor! (The New York Times)

• Stay-at-Home Parents Work Hard. Should They Be Paid? (The New York Times)

• Balancing paid work, unpaid work and leisure (OECD)
• Entrenched social norms prevent the equal distribution of caring responsibilities between men and women (OECD)

• The unpaid work that always falls to women (CNN)
• Taking Out the Trash? That’s Still a Man’s Job, Even for the Liberal Coastal Elite (The New York Times)
• How Splitting Household Duties Could Keep Your Marriage Intact (Parents)
• Men are taking over the grocery aisles (Mother Nature Network)
• Saying your house is messy because you play with your kids is a privilege (The Washington Post)
• Why millennial women want to be housewives (New York Post)
• A study suggests that women do most of the reminding to get stuff done (and no, it’s not nagging) (Quartz)
• How Much Would a Stay-at-Home Mom Be Paid Annually? A Lot! (Parenting)

Families & Paid Work

• Many Children Have Parents Who Work Nonstandard Schedules (U.S. Census)
• Mom Details 'Unbearable' Morning with Kids and Makes Scary-Familiar Realization (Working Mother)
• Parents Burning the Midnight (and Weekend) Oil (U.S. Census)
• If fathers took more paternity leave, these are all the benefits to kids and parents (Quartz)
• Which Countries Guarantee That New Dads Get Paid Paternity Leave? (NPR)
• Why women don’t take paid leave (even when they need to) (Market Watch)

Families & Caregiving Responsibilities 

• Gen-X Women Are Caught in a Generational Tug-of-War (The Atlantic)

• Why Child Care Is So Ridiculously Expensive (The Atlantic)

• America’s villages are collapsing—so who’s raising the children? (Quartz)
• The Mother Load/ America's "childcare deserts" are driving women out of the workforce (The Guardian)
• While Women Handle Childcare and Housework, Dads Are Having Fun (Working Mother)
• You Won't Believe How Much Parents Spend on Child Care, According to a New Survey (Parents)
• This Wage Calculator Shows What It Costs To Leave The Workforce To Care For A Child (Scary Mommy)
• Why are so many women dropping out of the workforce? (Los Angeles Times)
• Cost of Childcare - Why Childcare Is So Expensive, How It Got That Way, And How to Fix It (Elle)
• America’s Lack of Paid Parental Leave Policies Hurt Middle-Class Women the Most (Motto)
• Finland: the only country where fathers spend more time with kids than mothers (The Guardian)
• Most people in America want paid leave — reason the US is the only developed nation that doesn't have it (Business Insider)

Pay Gap Inequities

• Men feel stressed if their female partners earn more than 40% of household income (The Conversation)

• When She Earns More: As Roles Shift, Old Ideas on Who Pays the Bills Persist (The New York Times)

• Millennial Moms Are Facing The Worst Of The Gender Pay Gap (Refinery 29)
• Women who don’t have kids typically earn far more than women who do (Market Watch)
• The Pay Gap for Moms is Even Worse Than Women In General (Redbook)
• Giving fathers time off still isn't enough to end the motherhood penalty (Quartz)

Mothers and Employment

• The Toll of Parenting on the American Woman’s Workweek (CityLab)

• Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers — Men Do (Gen, Medium)

Fathers and Employment

• Dads Are Now Experiencing the Motherhood Penalty. That’s Not Good. (Fatherly)

Roles

• Why Millions of Mothers Are Overwhelmed by Stress (NPR)
  
• Can a Partner's Job Stress Make for a Toxic Relationship? | Psychology Today
  

Work Family Policies

• ‘I was risking my life’: why one in four US women return to work two weeks after childbirth (The Guardian)

• Dads Count Too: Family-Friendly Policies Must Include Fathers (The Society Pages)

• Flexible jobs can make work-life balance worse (World Economic Forum)