Peace
This Mother’s Day, Let’s Push for Peace
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Mother’s Day is a time to reflect on motherhood. But it’s also a time to remember the holiday’s original anti-war message and an opportunity to respond to our current global conflicts.
Teen Voices
Disability Complicates Mother-Daughter Relationship
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Writer Sylvia Colt needs her mother to bathe and dress her, but that doesn’t mean she also doesn’t want to kick her in the nose sometimes.
Black Lives Matter
In NYC, Two Moms Describe the Intimacy of #BlackLivesMatter
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Trayvon Martin and Sandra Bland. These and other names inform their most mundane moments. “Don’t put that hoodie on!,’” one woman thinks as she watches her son get dressed for school, ready to move beyond her reach. “He could look like anybody from behind.”
careers
Feminism Feels Good When We Stop Judging Ourselves
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I was a young mother with a successful career as a senior systems analyst when my husband was offered a fantastic opportunity that put that in jeopardy. That put me in what I now consider a false conflict with feminism.
Motherhood
Lacking Supports, Motherhood Exacts High Price
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Without a paid-leave buffer, women with children rack up big losses in income of between $49,000 and $230,000. On top of that, child care costs often consume half of paychecks. Part of the Bias Price series.
pregnancy discrimination
Pregnancy Requests Put Women in the Firing Line
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Women of color and those earning low wages are least likely to be accommodated during their pregnancies. It’s also acute for women in traditionally male-dominated industries. “I wanted to work,” says a music conductor who asked for a stool while she worked under hot lights.
book clubs
Mother-Daughter Book Clubs Boost Voice for Both
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They also give mothers a way to form genuine connections with other women who sincerely want to be their allies, not their “mompetitors,” Lori Day and Charlotte Kugler say in this excerpt from “Her Next Chapter.”
Motherhood
For Mother’s Day: This Workplace Vision is Real
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The gradual downtrend in U.S. workforce participation by women with children suggests an inevitable disconnect between newborns and professional performance. But what if employers treated women with newborns like this?
Motherhood
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Wendy Davis’ Single-Mom Story Sings for Me
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Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the sons of single mothers, traded on their families’ narratives of triumph over hardship. It’s nice to see Texas Democrat Wendy Davis flipping the script and highlighting her own achievements as a single mom.
Work
‘Maternal Wall’ Blocks Careers of Working Moms
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It’s not new moms’ imaginations, they often are treated differently after returning to work, say Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober in this excerpt from “Getting to 50/50.” One big feature of postnatal hazing is the question, “are you still committed?”