Has your family faced the double whammy of losing a job, and then losing a good child care situation at the same time, because you couldn't afford to keep paying for child care without the job? If so, I'd LOVE to talk to you for a piece I'm writing. Please comment below and I'll message you, or shoot me an email at [email protected]
Work Life Everything
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Research to help women navigate their experiences at home, at work, and everywhere in between.
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Work Life Everything activates life-enhancing, career-advancing, world-changing ideas for women, working families and caregivers. We are global research leaders on mission to ensure women and girls can equally participate in all areas of life. We aim to break down the individual, organizational and policy barriers standing in their way. This will create communities and cultures in which women can thrive.
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Join us at the IWPR Power+ Summit for a conversation on how research can drive actionable policy?recommendations?and empower women’s leadership. Representative Lauren Underwood, the first woman and?first person of color to represent Illinois’ 14th district, will discuss her journey, her work on critical issues like the Black maternal health crisis, and?how research?equips her to champion gender equity on Capitol Hill. Learn more and register today!?https://lnkd.in/etzEDwjK
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Some thoughts from our co-founder Haley Swenson on the latest flare-up in the U.S.’s neverending cultural, economic, and political battle over gender, the family, and its historical trajectory.
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When my editors at The Wall Street Journal encouraged me to write about why the U.S. birth rate had reached a record low, I expected to turn in a pretty straightforward story about shrinking family size. What I found when I started looking into the data, however, surprised me. It turns out that a surge in childlessness—rather than just people deciding to have fewer kids—is emerging as the biggest driver of the overall population decline. We found that women ages 35-to-44 with no kids accounted for over two-thirds of the 6.5% drop in this group’s average lifetime births between 2012 to 2022. Looking around at my own community, the picture starts to make sense.?My friends and I are all worried about the impacts of climate change, the increasing expectations to provide kids with limitless opportunities and the thought of giving up our hard-won freedom. The mindset shift is a huge departure from decades past. Throughout history, “to be a human being, for most people, meant to have children,” said Anastasia Artemyev Berg, co-author of the new book “What Are Children For?” “You didn’t think about how much it would cost, it was taken for granted." But unlike their parents and grandparents, younger Americans view kids as one of many elements that can create a meaningful life. Weighed against other personal and professional ambitions, the investments of child-rearing don’t always land in children’s favor.? MJ Petroni sums up a lot of millennials' new views: “It was almost shocking to me when I realized having a fulfilling life didn’t necessarily include my own kids." Read the story (without a paywall) if you get a second in between catching up on election drama: https://lnkd.in/g7r-a4Cv Huge thanks to all the researchers and economists who spent so much time with me on this topic, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center Karen Guzzo, Aspen Economic Strategy Group's Luke Pardue, University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney, Brown University's Emily Oster, The University of Texas at Austin's Dean Spears & Pew Research Center. And the biggest thanks of all to the couples who were willing to share these incredibly personal decisions with our readers: Beth Davis & Jacob Edenfield, MJ Petroni & Oleg Karpynets, Allie Mills & Connor J. Laubenthal, Trevor Galko & Keri Ann Meslar and Mariah Sanchez & Giovanni Perez
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A Bank of America report from October shows that average child care costs per household have increased by 30% since 2019, especially hitting families earning $100,000 to $250,000. The U.S. Department of Labor in January 2023 called child care prices “untenable” and noted that areas with higher costs had lower rates of maternal employment. Since 1990, child care costs have risen 214%, while family incomes have only increased 143%. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 temporarily increased the child care tax credit, providing much-needed relief. Read more https://lnkd.in/dgyjwjDR #ChildCareCosts #FamilyBudget #EconomicImpact #ChildCareTaxCredit #ParentingStruggles #AffordableChildCare #TheCareGap
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Join our co-founder Haley Swenson in a virtual conversation with Elana Berkowitz Avni Patel Thompson Silvia de Denaro Vieira and Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey (she/her) tomorrow at New America https://lnkd.in/egvmqs82
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Sweden is already miles ahead in terms of paid parental leave and child care, and they’re not slowing down. The Nordic country has passed a law that allows new parents to transfer a portion of their paid child care benefits to grandparents who step in to help in those early days and months. Swedish parents are allowed 480 days of paid leave per child. This new law allows them to transfer 45 days of that leave to a grandparent, or 90 days if you’re a single parent. Not to mention, studies show that children grow up happier if grandparents are involved in their upbringing. After all, it takes a village! Oxford University and the Institute of Education found that the emotional support that grandparents give to children is vital. When families come together to raise children, they feel happy, secure and supported. Share the responsibilities. Share the benefits. Bravo, Sweden ??
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Did you catch the TODAY Show segment on caregiving youth???The story leveraged our signature data, 'Caregiving in the US' (in partnership with AARP) to highlight the staggering number of youth caregivers in America.?A whopping 5.4 million kids are providing care for a parent with a chronic illness while juggling school??. By uplifting these stories, we can better understand and address the unique challenges faced by this growing community. ? Special thanks to the Today Show and Maria Shriver for spotlighting our data and American Association of Caregiving Youth (AACY), Lorenzo's House and Kesem for their incredible work! Watch segment: https://lnkd.in/ex-9wsfG #YouthCaregivers #Caregiving #CaregiverNation
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Next week! Join me, Avni Patel Thompson, Elana Berkowitz, Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey (she/her) and Silvia de Denaro Vieira in conversation about the promise and perils of the flood of new apps and AI technologies designed to reduce the mental load and boost gender equality. How do we make sure these new technologies make our lives more equal, not just more efficient? How can AI change the game and the load you carry? And how do we ensure no families or households are left behind? If you're using an app, personal assistant service, or other technology to manage your load, let me know about it here! What's working? What else do you need from the technology or from society? https://lnkd.in/djNMradR New America Work Life Everything
[Online] AI, Apps, and the Mental Load
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YES. Institutions must change, or our best efforts to share the load with our partners will eventually hit a wall.
Author "Powerfully Likeable: How to Communicate with Influence and Show Up as Your Best Self" (Penguin Random House, 2025) | Communications coach.
*Shrieks in boomerang mental load* Normalize ?? not ?? always ?? calling ?? the ?? mother.* My husband emailed our pediatrician last week for an appointment, and the receptionist called me back to schedule it. My husband made an online GP appointment for our other son (yes, it's winter here, hi), and the clinic called me to change it. My husband took the first child to the orthodontist, and the new appointment reminders pinged on my phone. I'm extremely delighted to have a supportive and proactive co-parent. But even when you divide a mental load fairly between two co-parents, the rest of society doesn't catch up. My deepest desire is not to be privy to extra family paperwork and admin that I'm not facilitating - I've got a whole other list! This is the BOOMERANG mental load: stuff that you thought you delegated that comes back to hit you on the head. Surely we have the tech to see which parent booked an online appointment to send it to booking parent, only? Can we all agree that an act of micro-feminism would be to sometimes, I don't know, call Dad? *We happen to be a Mum and a Dad: you can change whatever noun/gender is relevant to you. Ping Eve Rodsky whose book, Fair Play, is an excellent read on the equitable division of household labor.