parental leave
In the race to be bigger, faster, stronger, we've lost sight of what makes us better: Time with each other.
From the aging population and the need for work-life balance for both genders, to the struggles of the working class to adapt to a weak economy, culture is part and parcel of the top five issues affecting working families today.
There's an unspoken rule in corporate America for dads when it comes to parental leave policy or anything that hints at real work/family balance: use at your own career peril.
The odds are against mothers having as successful a career as non-mothers. The United States is the only wealthy nation that does not offer parental leave.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The United States is exceptional when it comes to workplace policy -- and not in a way that benefits American women, men or companies.
Of all the countries surveyed in a new book, 177 offer paid leave for new mothers. Only four guaranteed no paid family leave, and the United States is one of them.
Tiger would do well here in Sweden. For Swedes' sense of privacy and reserve far outstrips their distaste of all things porn and sleaze.
As new parents, federal workers are forced to decide between staying home with their children without pay or return to work early. We believe this is a choice federal workers should not have to make.
30 years after our nation outlawed discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, so many women -- and women of color in particular -- are still experiencing it in serious ways.
It's really about the lifestyle, the pace. It is all about naps. When, as a father of small children, do you get to nap anymore? I was home for only six months. And I got to nap almost every day.