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New York’s paid family leave policy, which took effect in January 2018 and is funded by an employee payroll tax, does not seem to hurt employers. It seems to improve their ease of managing worker [...]

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 [...]

The rise of “work-focused” value sets and life courses means that achieving work-family balance isn’t just about employment norms adjusting to the growing complexity of individual aspirations; it [...]

Babies and young children in disadvantaged families have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 due to compounding factors like overcrowded housing with lack of outdoor space, the impact of [...]

Despite overall convergence between men and women in labour market participation rates, women still fare worse than men, with no visible improvement on the gender gap in the last 15 years. And [...]

Most American families say they’re falling short of the American dream and have clear preferences for balancing work and childcare and for receiving government support. [American Compass, [...]

Mothers have had to make very difficult choices during the pandemic.  

The centrality of work shapes how middle-class Americans think about and utilize their time. This top-down shaping of middle-class time has negative impacts on well-being and has direct [...]

State of caregiving leave in the United States before the coronavirus pandemic. [AEI-Brookings Paid Leave Project, November 2020.]   DOWNLOAD STUDY

Set of enhanced Infant-Toddler policies—in the areas of income support, child care, and paid family leave—to better support working parents of young children during the most critical period for [...]