In its first study of the lives of American women since 1963, the White House recently released a report which found that while young women are “more likely” to have a college or graduate degree and that the number of working men and women “has nearly equalized,” women’s wages are still roughly 75 percent of what their male peers make. more

A pair of researchers from the University of Waterloo in Ontario published a study in the journal Psychological Science asserting that parents exaggerate how happy they are that they had children, reported LiveScience. more

A Harvard/McGill University study found that of the 181 nations whose maternity leave laws they studied, the United States, along with Papua New Guinea and Swaziland were the only ones “that don’t guarantee working mothers [maternity] leave with compensation” which the study’s authors said costs the nations in “lost productivity and health risks for children,” reported Bloomberg News. more

“Are there any other moms out there besides me up for changing Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love mantra to ‘Eat, Pray, Sleep?,’ asked Karen Brody, mother of two, writing on the Huffington Post. Saying that moms need the chance to rejuvenate themselves the same way Gilbert could – without disappearing for months at a time – Brody said she found that the key for her was to get more sleep and is now a big believer in the power of sleep. more

While Michelle Obama has been promoting breastfeeding as a means to reduce childhood obesity and the IRS has decided to allow breast pumps to be tax deductible, not everyone’s happy about it. more

Responding to criticism of CBS reporter Lara Logan’s decision to work in a dangerous part of the world, where she was recently attacked by a mob in Egypt and sexually assaulted, given that she’s the mother of a young child, New York Times blogger Lisa Belkin pointed out that parents of both genders routinely work in dangerous vocations and that singling Logan out for taking risks isn’t fair. more

A Pew Research Center poll found that while respondents said unmarried couples who have children and gay couples who have children were largely found to make no difference to society, they weren’t too keen on the increase in single motherhood, saying that they think that the trend is bad for society. more

Award-winning writer and 30 Rock actress Tina Fey penned an amusing essay for the New Yorker, “Confessions of a Juggler” in which she says she’s tired of people asking her whether she’s going to have a second child and that, frankly, she’s not sure whether she should or shouldn’t. more

The Journal of Child Development compared the body-mass index (BMI) of 900 children and found that the more years their mother spent working, the higher the child’s BMI, according to media reports. more

A study in the journal Developmental Psychology found that if fathers often play with their young children, both the fathers and the mothers with whom they parent “tend to be more supportive of each other’s parenting styles,” reported HealthDay News. more