Parents spend more time in teaching activities with daughters, study reveals
A new study reveals that parents spend more time time in cognitive activities with their daughters than with their sons.
Category: Family 2.0
How about a daddy quota?
Establishing a “daddy quota” could go a long way in changing our cultural perspective on who stays home to raise the kids, Leah Eichler argues.
Modern parents converge on roles but stressed about work-life balance: study
A new study says that while the roles of modern parents are converging, today’s moms and dads are feeling quite stressed when it comes to balancing work and family life.
Embracing the archetype of the “working dad”
More “working dads” are stepping up to the challenge of helping rear their children but greater dialogue is still needed to thresh out the issues that accompany the plight of fathers who wish to become more involved with their kids.
Talk to me about work, not my womb
It’s surprising how much we as a community think about what’s happening in a woman’s uterus. Focusing on your own reproduction makes sense. What troubles me is when the business community wants to talk about it, too. In fact, it seems impossible to talk about the advancement of women in business without someone dropping the word “baby” into the equation. I don’t know about you, but I think it’s high time companies take their eyes off our navels.
Progressive reproductive health measures key to empowering women
Studies have shown that a country’s reproductive health laws are crucial to empowering women.
Family planning empowers women but large need remains in developing countries
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) published The State of World Population 2012 this November which underscored the positive impact that family planning has not only on the lives of women but on their households, communities, and countries as well.
Material feminists – challenging the shape of and relations between domestic spaces
What kinds of homes Americans needed has always been a question without a simple answer—with many competing perspectives. The designs of our home not only allocates our belongings throughout the house, it structures the ways in which we interact with one another and the communities in which we live.
On Masculinity and Home Improvement
Dr. Tristan Bridge reflects on a role reversal that took place at his local Lowe’s.
Over half of U.S. women prefer to work outside the home: poll
Over 50 percent of women in the U.S. prefer to work outside the home, a new Gallup poll showed.
