The Ongoing Struggle To Balance Career And Family
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-06-25/ongoing-struggle-balance-career-and-family
Working mothers have long struggled to balance career and family. Diane and her guests look at defining success and happiness, and whether it's gotten easier to have it all.
Guests
Judith Warner
author of "Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety" and "We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication" and a columnist for Time.com
Ellen Galinsky
president of the Families and Work Institute
Linda Perlman Gordon
Psychotherapist in private practice in Chevy Chase, co-author of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the New Intimacy of today's New Mother-Daughter Relationship," "Mom Can I Move Back in With You?" and a couple of parent's survival guides to connecting with your teen.
Wendy Chun-Hoon
Family Values @ Work's D.C. Director
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Thank you Diane Rehm for this show. Our country's ongoing struggle to balance career and family is serious and deserves more attention.
The work we are doing at the For Our Babies campaign is directly related to this discussion. We are a national campaign aimed at building grassroots awareness, interest, and action toward promoting the healthy development of U.S. children, from conception through age 3. We are non-partisan and research based.
We invite your listeners to check out our website www.forourbabies.org to learn more about our campaign mission which includes paid family leave for parents during their child's first nine months of life.
In addition to research on the key campaign topics, we have a blog with weekly news roundups, a podcast series and we collect and share video stories from moms and dads around the country. One of our videos that relates to the conversation of how the US compares to other countries in terms of paid family leave, is this story from Carmen (see link below), a mom from Austria who resides in California. Carmen reflects on the disparity between services she received as a new mom in the United States compared to those provided in Austria. She concludes that while we may have it better in California than other states, from a global perspective, it's a complete joke. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRqNrnCsnSc&feature=plcp
We invite your listeners to sign our pledge, share their stories with us and help us raise our voice to create a brighter future for our babies. Let's act on what the research is telling us and stand up For Our Babies! http://forourbabies.org/wp/get-involved/sign-our-pledge/