What We’re Reading Now: October is National Work and Family Month! #NWFM
Every year, the Rhodes Project is invited to participate in the National Work and Family Month Blog-a-thon, sponsored by the Alliance for Work – Life Balance. Support this important effort by sharing work/life balance articles in October: this is an issue that affects everyone. And take a look at our 2010 entry, on discrimination against parents in the work-place here.
It’s National Work and Family Month in the US, and the Blog-a-thon has been busy. This year, we have been particularly pleased to see even more voices joining the conversation, and proving that this is truly a global issue. We’ll be tweeting with the #NWFM tag all month, but here are some of our favorite pieces:
- Two smart articles on how to make flexible work, often the best option for balance, a reality here and here.
- We love the National Science Foundation’s Career-Life Balance Initiative, kicked off by First Lady of the US (and our hearts) Michelle Obama.
- The Pew Center’s shocking study, revealing that divorce is the strongest factor for predicting whether women will fall out of the middle class (it’s heroin usage for men). The reasons for this aren’t entirely clear, but disproportionate child-care responsibilities seem to be indicated.
- The confessions of this “undercover” working mom resonated with us!
- Working Mother advocates flexible work strategies as a means of combating economic risks of single parent headed households
Let us know what you’ve been reading!
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