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In an era where women are projected to make up 60% of the workforce in the next five years, employers can leverage existing technology to provide fully managed child care benefits, giving their [...]

It’s a thorny problem with no easy solutions. Some, like Russia, have tried throwing money at it, offering parents generous cash incentives to have children. But policies like this rarely [...]

This year, as the COVID-19 pandemic and containment measures drastically change everyday life, moms and all caregivers have taken on tremendous added burdens. They often continue to work either [...]

Work and life are often thought of as a zero-sum of hours in conflict but work-life balance also depends on investment in care and men’s full participation in the home. [Frances McGinnity – [...]

A country that does not publicly fund national defense won’t have much of it. A society that doesn’t support parents will have fewer children. [Stephanie H. Murray – The Atlantic, 25 April [...]

Inequality has seemingly caused many American parents to jettison friendships and activities in order to invest more resources in their kids, while prior generations didn’t need to be as [...]

As well as the impact of population dynamics on development is understood, there is surprisingly little global awareness of the next great stage of the world historical demographic story, even [...]

Dramatic demographic changes are underway in China. Yet one absolutely momentous demographic trend has attracted far less attention: the coming transformation of the Chinese family structure. [...]

Teleworking has the potential to support work-life balance and should be a means of promoting gender equality. For this, the burden of the unpaid care and domestic work performed by women must be [...]

In 2019, 4.17 million babies were born in the European Union (EU), continuing a decreasing trend that started after 2008 when 4.68 million children were born in the EU. [Eurostat, 23 March [...]