Therapist Laura Berman, in a recent Chicago Sun-Times column called for moms to stop judging one another based on their work. "The bottom line is that we are all working moms and we all work our behinds off and want the best for our children, no matter how we spend our days," Berman wrote. (March 2007) more

Boston-area parenting writer Ursula Furi-Perry said in the article "Opting Out: The Real Reasons Women Leave the Workplace," that women aren't really opting out of work as much as they're being pushed out by inhospitable work environments. Furi-Perry also said the media's coverage of educated women who opt out of paid work by choice is inaccurate. more

The Washington Post's "On Balance" blog recently took on "the proliferation of lopsided stories" in the media about moms and their work by applauding a Columbia Journalism Review article  by E.J. Graff which labeled much of the media's coverage of moms as their work as filled with myths. (March 2007) more

The Nation recently ran a piece detailing how academics who are mothers are faced with career obstacles not experienced by their male colleagues. "Balancing family and work is one reason why achieving tenure is so difficult for women," Kay Steiger wrote in the magazine. "The average age of someone applying for tenure is 33, and the review process takes about five years from the day he or she is hired at the institution. This coincides directly with when many women are considering starting families." (March 2007) more

The same University of Maryland study about how parents allocate their time found that today's fathers spend more time with their kids than did previous generations of dads, according to a Washington Post article. The study found that fathers spent an average of 2.5 hours a week tending to their children in 1965, as compared to 7 hours in 2003. (March 2007) more

The Washington Post this week eased the minds of working mothers everywhere with a story saying that even with women spending more time working than they did in the 1960s, they're also devoting more time to their children than at-home mothers did 40 years ago, according to a new University of Maryland study. more

USA Today highlighted the creators of Alpha Mom, a video-on-demand service reaching 11.5 million homes and with a companion web site, and says that they not only found an untapped market - upscale moms who shun the minivan set - but that advertisers are taking notice. ". . . more

With the number of adjunct faculty members - low-paid instructors with no benefits or job security -- at American universities on the rise, a Pennsylvania State University professor says 73 percent of those adjuncts are women. Labor and Women's Studies Professor Robert Drago, in a Chronicle of Higher Education article, said women teaching part-time rarely, if ever, are able to transition to the tenure track, adding that the academic world is often hostile to those seeking to balance work and life. more

The results of a federally-funded study of 1,364 children about the impact of day care were scrutinized over the past week as the media promoted a "day care is bad" storyline. Some media outlets highlighted the negative effects found in the study, released by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, while downplaying the positive, even though the study's authors said the differences they between children were slight. more

The Washington Post parenting blog, "On Balance," highlighted an initiative by a national childcare provider to give its employees emergency childcare when a child is sick or their regular care situation falls through. The blog focused on a Portland Oregonian article that indicated a number of law, finance and accounting firms are experiencing a growing demand for such services. more