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Category: Working Family Caregivers
Information on juggling your career and family caregiving responsibilities.
Careers and Caregiving: An impossible juggling act?
My story speaks to the structural constraints on faculty members in “the sandwich generation” and...
Jobs Aplenty, but a Shortage of Care Keeps Many Women From Benefiting
A dearth of child care and elder care choices is causing many women to reorganize their working...
Working Women, Aging Parents: Some Advice For Caregiving Daughters
Millions of women in this country are caring for an aging parent or parents and for many, it’s not...
I’m a working mom and my 4-year-old son’s full-time medical caregiver. Here’s what life is like
As a full-time working mom and a full-time medical caregiver to my 4-year-old son, I have many...
‘It is all about raising the profile of carers’
It was early evening, and Rebekah Zammett was about to leave her north Oxfordshire home to work a...
The Care Economy: More State, Less Market
Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to...
What the Conversation Around the “Great Resignation” Leaves Out
Since the beginning of the pandemic, one in five health care workers has left their job. They’ve...
Making Your Workplace Safe for Grief
Grief doesn’t just come with sadness and loss. Grief can also come fully-loaded with guilt, anger,...
Care is Infrastructure and We Must Compensate Caregivers Accordingly
Donald was proud of his caregiving role. His mom had raised him and his siblings on her own, while...
Rosie Could Be a Riveter Only Because of a Care Economy. Where Is Ours?
Infrastructure “of a country, society, or organization,” according to the Collins Dictionary,...
What it Means to Live in a Country that Does Not Guarantee Paid Family and Medical Leave
The United States stands alone among developed nations for failing to support families with paid...
Out of the Attic: A Caregiver’s Rage and Jane Eyre
Tired and on edge, I was worried by rumblings from my husband Brad’s doctors that they might send...
Don’t Tell a Caregiver to Stay Positive. Here’s How to Help Instead
My husband had been in the hospital, critically ill, for weeks one day when I broke down in tears...
How State and Local Laws Protect Family Caregivers from Discrimination at Work
Currently, about 41 million Americans provide care to an adult with limitations in daily...
50 Million Americans Are Unpaid Caregivers. We Need Help.
For four months, my husband, Brad, had been recovering from a stem-cell transplant that saved his...
Making the Mental Load Visible
Too often we compartmentalize our caregiving — childcare, aged care, sick care, disabled care. Yet...
The care economy as an infrastructure investment
Before the start of the recession, women were playing a key role in the strength of the national...
Fairplay at Home w/Eve Rodsky
This episode is part of a series about care. About the value of care. And we’re going to focus...
The Pandemic Offers a Chance to Reimagine Caregiving
Our current conversation about caregiving, driven by school shutdowns, Covid outbreaks in nursing...
How COVID-19 Hollowed Out a Generation of Young Black Men
While COVID-19 has killed 1 out of every 800 African Americans, a toll that overwhelms the...
How my mother and I became Chinese propaganda
As A.L.S. gradually paralyzed her, while leaving her intellect intact, our years were filled with...
How Caregiving Became More Than Just a Women’s Issue
Even though women have always done most of the caregiving, both paid and unpaid, it’s never been...
Biden Announces $775 Billion Plan to Help Working Parents and Caregivers
Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced a sweeping new $775 billion investment in caregiving programs on...