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It’s time to innovate how we think and talk about work and family. In this video, experts offer key strategies and frameworks for achieving equal partnerships, so that men and women can better navigate work and family dynamics....
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Sharon Meers is the co-author of Getting to 50/50, a book about how men and women find common ground and share power so that men can be full parents and women can have full careers. She works at eBay, running business development for the new x....
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Joanna Strober is the co-author of Getting to 50/50, a book about how men and women find common ground and share power so that men can be full parents and women can have full careers. She is the Founder and CEO of Kurbo Health, an online company...
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A game-changing read that’s set to do for the cultural dialogue around working families what "Lean In" did for working women.
Love is in the air, but beyond the heart shaped candies and red bouquets a real question remains: How do we create and maintain equal partnerships? The Clayman Institute’s latest online education module, “Work & Family: Getting to 50/50,”offers key strategies, expert tips and frameworks for achieving equal partnerships and navigating a work and life balance together.
NPR presents findings from a newly published American Sociological Review study that reveals a growing shift away from traditional gender roles in relationships and a greater desire to form equal partnerships.
Because Meers' began an open dialog about her desires for an equal partnership with her husband early she and her husband able to find a balance that fit both of their needs.
Female breadwinning has quadrupled since 1960 yet the amount of household work done by men has remained largely unchanged since the '80s. Stephen Marche's The New York Times op-ed piece celebrates the more recent trend of women's divestment from household work as a method of creating a more equal gender balance of household tasks.
CEO Anne-Marie Slaughter presents the case for society to respect care-giving men and encourages women to be competitors in the workplace.
Author Liz O'Donnell presents 10 concrete tools including embracing "good enough" and building a strong network of support to increase productivity, happiness and balance for working and parenting.
Professor Steve Friedman's book presents research to explain why so many young people are not planning to become parents and offers ideas for what we can do as a society and in our workplaces to make it easier for men and women to choose the lives they want.
Harvard Business Review presents survey results from three generations of Harvard Business School graduates' views on work and family.
The Atlantic presents why men should read "Lean In" so that men can also fight inequality and support women fighting inequality in the workplace.
Business Insider presents seven actions that men can take to support equality among men and women in the workplace.
This Huffington Post article presents why men should get involved in issues of gender inequality in family life and in the workplace.
Richard Branson describes how men can fight gender bias and support equality in the workplace.
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