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Institutional inflexibility around the still female-biased workload of parenting, a workaholic culture, and a paucity of financial and logistical family-friendly support structures, remain key hypotheses for why women leave academia....

The first step is getting clear on what's important. What are the different categories you want in your schedule and the level of achievement you're looking for? What are your...

The return-to-work transition from maternity leave can be a stressful one. Adjusting to a new routine of drop-offs at childcare, commuting, settling back into a work environment and the emotional...

A recent study out of Wilfrid Laurier found that extended parental leave can hurt women’s careers. In Canada, extended leave allows parents to take off 18 months from work instead of 12...

Even in 2019, a pregnancy while you have a job can be a liability. According to the Modern Family Index, in 2018, two times as many US women were scared to...

According to research by Ipsos Mori, almost three in 10 women (29%) surveyed thought that taking maternity leave had a negative impact on their career, while less than half the...

Ask German women why they are lagging, and they spout one German word: Rabenmütter. The word is singularly German, a derogatory term for working mothers, and a slur — untrue, it...

It can be extremely hard to jam your foot back in the door once you’ve voluntarily stepped out of it, and people have different reasons for doing so. They might...

About a fifth of all undergraduates in the US are going to class while raising a child. Student parents are mostly women (about 70 percent) they are more likely to...

New data from Statistics Canada shows nearly one in 10 parents of children under six have had to change their work schedule due to a lack of available child care....