Video and Multimedia
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Post from the Society Pages, “Gender Inequalities in Dual-Earner, College Educated Couples and the Transition to Parenthood”
Smithsonian Libraries article, “The Making of a Homemaker”
Sociological Images post, “Children, Chores, and the Gender Pay Gap at Home”
New York Times magazine, “The Complicated Origins of ‘Having It All’”
New York Times article, “To Rescue Economy, Japan Turns to Supermom”
Blog post from the U.S. Census Bureau, “How Do We Know about Child Care in the U.S.?”
The Atlantic article, “Home Economics: The Link Between Work-Life Balance and Income Equality”
Pacific Standard article, “Stay-at-Home Parenting Is on the Rise Because Mothers Can’t Find Work”
NPR Research News, “What Men Really Want When It Comes to Work”
NPR series on men in America:
- “After Factory Layoffs, Struggling to Stay on the Economic Ladder”
- “Why Are Men Leaving the American Workforce”
- “More Men Put Ambitions on Back Burner for their Partners Careers”
- “More Dads Want Paternity Leave. Getting It Is a Different Matter”
New York Times, the Upshot articles:
- “Can Family Leave Policies Be Too Generous? Seems So.”
- “Paid Leave Encourages Female Employees to Stay”
- “Motherhood Penalty vs. Fatherhood Bonus: A Child Helps Your Career, if You’re a Man”
- “Millennial Men Aren’t the Dads They Thought They’d Be”
- “Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma”
- “Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind”
- “The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind”
- “The Rise of Men Who Don’t Work and What They Do Instead”
- “The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality”
- “Signs of a Truce in the Mommy Wars”
- “How Society Pays When Women’s Work Is Unpaid”
TeachingWithData.org, data in the news, “Trends in Men Who Don’t Work”
Pacific Standard, “The Majority of Stay-at-Home Dads Aren’t Staying Home to Care for the Family”
The Atlantic article, “Daddy Track: The Case for Paternity Leave”
NPR Morning Edition story, “How Paternity Leave for New Dads Benefits Women”
NPR Morning Edition story, “Researcher Sees Gradual Movement on Issue of Paid Parental Leave”
The Medium, “Family Leave Is Not a Women’s Issue”
Interactive map showing national paid leave policies
NPR Morning Edition story, “Boosting Family Leave Is Often about Getting Workers to Stay”