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Interesting piece in the New York Times published March 19. Warner notes that a lot of the news coverage (or at least, perhaps, NYT coverage?) of the recession has focused on what in reality is a very small part of the economic downturn-- job loss and...
Just a quick post to point out some great things I've come across in the last week: Sharing the workload at work- and home : A San Francisco Chronicle piece that interviews Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober, the authors of Getting to 50/50: How Working...
The NYT has a fascinating chart today called Why is Her Paycheck Smaller? It charts median weekly pay for women against that of men for dozens of professions and color-coded by type of industry. An especially salient statistic: female lawyers make, on...
Today's student guest blogger is Helen O'Reilly, a member of the Yale Law School class of 2011. Helen is 28 years old and grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. --- When I graduate from law school in 2011, I will be 31 years old, married, and on...
The economy is forcing some gender, parenting, and work issues to the forefront. A recent article in the New York Times is a veritable playground of issues that we will discuss at the conference. For example: On average, employed women devote much more...
In an Op-Ed in today’s New York Times, Stephanie Coontz writes that “[p]arents today spend much more time with their children than they did 40 years ago.” “The sociologists Suzanne Bianchi, John Robinson and Melissa Milkie report...
Nancy Killefer’s “nanny tax”-related withdrawal has brought to the surface some interesting and recurring questions about working women and domestic help. Emily Bazelon discusses the possibility of a tax screw-up double standard: “When...