
Spring 2019:
- Paid Family and Medical Leave: Politicians Must Step Up for Women’s Economic Security or Move Aside | Opinion (Newsweek)
- My Friend’s Cancer Taught Me About a Hole in Our Health System (The New York Times)
- How a Measles Quarantine Can Lead to Eviction (The Atlantic)
- To Make the Case for Paternity Leave Dads Will Have to Work Together (Harvard Business Review)
- As Parents and Grandparents Age, More and More Millennials Are Family Caregivers (NPR)
- Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick (The Atlantic)
- Why Paternity Leave is Needed to Promote Gender Equality (Strategy+Business)
Winter 2019:
- OPINION: Head Start founder sought paid family leave (The Hechinger Report)
- Mothers grapple with unpaid maternity leave as lawmakers eye a change (CBS News)
- Why We Need Paid Family Leave (The Skanner)
- The Motherhood Penalty: Why We’re Losing Our Best Talent To Caregiving (Forbes)
- Paid Family, Medical Leave Teed Up in States Across U.S. (Bloomberg Law)
- Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a handout (The Conversation)
- America is Failing Its Black Mothers (Harvard Public Health)
- $2 a week is a bargain for the peace of mind paid leave will provide those who need it (The Olympian)
- Let’s Get Paid Family Leave Right (The Nation)
- Why paid family leave is about more than taking care of bodies (MarketWatch)
- IVF and the Office: Why, in 2019, are American workplaces still so bad at dealing with issues around infertility (Slate)
- Actor Rob Lowe: I was my sick mother’s caregiver, don’t underestimate the stress caregivers face (USA Today)
- Everyone’s Missing the Obvious About the Declining U.S. Birthrate (Medium)
- Why more millennials are becoming caregivers (PBS)
- Harvard Study: Workers are facing a caregiving crisis and companies refuse to acknowledge it (Fast Company)
- Don’t Let the ‘Fatherhood Penalty’ Keep Your from Using Paternity Leave (Scary Mommy)
Fall 2018:
- Child care costs and strict hours are crippling working parents, especially the single ones (USA Today)
- 2018 in Review: Ten HRC Resources for Moving LGBTQ Equality Forward (Human Rights Campaign)
- Crushed it! MomsRising’s Top Wins of 2018 (MomsRisings)
- Five Years Since It Was First Introduced, It’s Time to Renew the New Family Leave Act (Slate)
- Washington took a stand for working families. Other states must follow (The Guardian)
- Google’s contractors accuse CEO of creating unequal workforce (Vox)
- Women are Asking to be Paid What They’re Worth – So Why Aren’t They Getting It? (Bustle)
- Paid family leave: While US lags behind, more states set policies (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Bipartisan consensus on paid family leave is a terrible thing to waste (The Hill)
- Not Listening to Mothers: New survey reveals what is and isn’t working with maternity care in the Golden State (California Health Care Foundation)
- Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not. (The New York Times)
- Eataly now offers paid parental leave to every employee (Fast Company)
- Will Paid Leave For Family Caregivers Catch On In The U.S.? (Forbes)
- Facebook is not as family-friendly as you think, working moms say (USA Today)
- U.S. needs comprehensive paid leave (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- How Companies Can Ensure Maternity Leave Doesn’t Hurt Women’s Careers (Harvard Business Review)
- Families take a dim view of the high cost of Rubio’s proposed leave plan (CNBC)
- Americans Should Have More Time Off (Forbes)
- What the US can learn from Canada about how to treat moms (The Guardian)
- Why Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation could be a blow to women’s economic stability (Mic)
- Kamala Harris: Everyone Gets Sick. And We Deserve Better (The New York Times)
- Workers start paying for Washington state’s new paid-leave law in 2019. Here’s how it works. (The Seattle Times)
- Women in the Workforce Face a Larger Wage Gap Than Previously Thought, Study Shows (Fortune)
- Paid Leave Is an LGBTQ Issue (Advocate)
- Why Aren’t Millennials Spending? They’re Poorer Than Previous Generations, Fed Says (NPR)
- See How Much More Expensive Childcare Is than Getting a Higher Education (HowMuch)
- Wash. to implement best paid family & medical leave in America in 2019 (KOMO News)
- Almost 5 Million Americans Got More Paid Family Leave This Year (Bloomberg)
- Why Companies Should Better Support Working Mothers – – And How To Do So (Forbes)
- Is pay equality possible when all the hard work at home is done by women? (The Guardian)
- Many Top Medical Training Programs Lack Paid Family Leave Policies, Study Finds (CommonHealth)
Summer 2018:
- A Settled Matter: Voters Across Parties and Key Demographics Want a National Paid Leave Program that Covers Everyone (National Partnership for Women & Families)
- The economy may be booming, but nearly half of Americans can’t make ends meet (Los Angeles Times)
- When It Comes to Paid Leave, the Details Matter (1,000 Days)
- A paid leave plan cannot make you choose between kids or retirement (The Hill)
- The Wrong Way to Do Paid Family Leave (The New York Times)
- How Millennial Men Can Champion Workplace Equality (Forbes)
- Teachers donating sick days is a symptom of a wretched system (CNN)
- A Sobering Look At How America Compares To The Rest Of The World With Parental Leave & Childcare (Girl Talk HQ)
- 25% of Women Have Turned Down a Job Because of the Benefits Package. Here’s How Employers Can Fix That. (Medium)
- It Took Until Today for a Black Woman to Make, on Average, What a White Man Made in 2017 (Slate)
- Paid leave isn’t just for parents (Chicago Tribune)
- We need family leave — but not at the expense of retirement benefits (CNN)
- When Will the U.S. Finally Act Boldly on Paid Family Leave? (Harvard Business Review)
- Paid Leave From Work Can Help Domestic-Violence Victims Leave Abusers (The Atlantic)
- Twenty-Five Years After the Passage of Family and Medical Leave Act, Better Policies Are on the Horizon (Slate)
- A National Paid Family Leave Program Would Boost America’s Small Businesses (Morning Consult)
- Closing The Wage Gap On Black Women’s Equal Pay Day Is A Win For Us All (Forbes)
- The GOP Introduced a Paid Family Leave Bill. Advocates Aren’t Pleased. (Slate)
- Momentum on paid family leave is building (The Denver Post)
- Why Women Really Quit Breastfeeding (Harper’s Bazaar)
- Born in the USA: Having a baby is costly and confusing, even for a health policy expert (The Conversation)
- Millennials Are Way Poorer Than Boomers Ever Were (Vice)
- America Is Running Out of Family Caregivers, Just When It Needs Them Most (The Wall Street Journal)
- Should paid parental leave be a baby shower gift? Lots of people think not. (Upworthy)
- To Remain A Global Economic Leader, The U.S. Has To Lead On Paid Leave (Forbes)
- California’s paid family leave policy is decreasing nursing home use and saving Medicaid dollars (Washington Center for Equitable Growth)
- A Looming Family Leave Plan in Congress Could Harm Parents With Disabilities (Rewire.News)
- Powerful new Gatorade commercial reminds the world that Serena Williams is awesome because she ‘plays like a mother’ not because she overcame motherhood (Business Insider)
- Our Moral Duty: Business Leadership in Support of Paid Family Leave (LinkedIn)
- American families need paid leave without sacrificing their retirement (The Hill)
- Pregnant In America: Examining Discrimination And Fertility Rates (WNPR)
- Americans Are Having Fewer Babies. They Told Us Why. (The New York Times)
- Lack of Paid Sick Leave Linked to Poverty (HealthDay)
- Massachusetts Set to Become Sixth State With Paid Family Leave (Rewire.News)
- Massachusetts passes bipartisan bill for nation’s strongest family leave policy, $15 minimum wage (Daily Kos)
- In America, Paternity Leave is for Rich Tech Workers, Lawyers, and Bankers (Fatherly)
- Which Countries Guarantee That New Dads Get Paid Paternity Leave? (NPR)
- Commentary: It’s time to make parental leave a priority for everyone (CBS News)
- Without job protection, paid family leave won’t work for Jerseyans (New Jersey)
- Reddit co-founder highlights importance of paternity leave (CNN)
- Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies (The New York Times)
- We Can’t Fix the Pay Gap without Addressing the Culture that Punishes Working Mothers (NBC News)
- I Don’t Feel Superhuman. I Feel Like a Mom Who Has a Career (The New York Times)
- What the Gates Foundation Learned by Offering 52 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave (Quartz at Work)
- Double duty: Caregivers take on a second shift in an aging America (Star Tribune)