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Lightening the Mental Load That Holds Women Back
Most of us encounter steep learning curves as well as wobbly balancing acts as parents, but in recent decades, parents have been left to face those challenges with heavier career responsibilities and fewer support systems. Families with dual incomes and single-working parents are on the rise, mothers are the fastest growing segment of the workforce... See more
Greylock • Our Investment In Cleo
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But equality, as Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg has stated, is not a zero-sum game. Beyond the most immediate and obvious benefit—that I will cease being, as Real memorably put it, a “raving lunatic”—there are so many others. A Cornell study found that couples with young kids who split housework more evenly reported better and more frequent sex than whe
... See moreJancee Dunn • How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
Historically, U.S. women have taken on more responsibilities at home because they have not been able to work outside the home or have worked fewer hours and earned less, because of limited access to higher-paying jobs. But since the 1970s, even as women’s participation in the labor force and salaries have risen, men have still not taken on an equit... See more
Soo Youn • When moms out-earn their husbands, they gain more housework, study says
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I remember a McKinsey women’s event where fifteen or twenty young consultants from the San Francisco office sat around a glossy oval table listening to a junior partner speak about her successful ascent. The topic turned to work-life balance, as it always did at such events, and she advised us as follows: If there is a household task where it matte... See more
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When moms out-earn their husbands, they gain more housework, study says
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Does my workplace have a paid family leave policy? What is the ratio of women, and specifically women of color, to men in senior positions? How do we decide who gets promoted? When we are hiring for a new job, are we interviewing a diverse group of candidates? Are women always doing the tasks that make a workplace a little more like a home?
Melinda French Gates • The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
but they also list examples of how she and her husband have learned to focus on the things that matter, accept less than perfection on the things that don’t, and be creative when being pulled in different directions. Building a solid foundation for sharing domestic responsibilities involved, for example, her husband conjuring a way to move his new
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