With Thanksgiving behind us and the winter holidays and family time approaching, the season encourages some stock-taking and reflection. We at the Duck have been having a bit of behind the scenes emailing about the challenges of finding child care, and I wanted to...
Dear PhD Prospective (with kids or thinking about kids), Thanks for contacting me. It sounds like you missed Steve Saideman’s sage advice and are actually going to be trying to get a PhD in...
Every night, about 15 minutes or so after we've put my 3-year old daughter to bed, we inevitably hear a knock at the door. Â She's typically knocking because she needs to go the bathroom. Â She's also...
Sesame Street really has changed the way we think about our ABC's. My 2-year old is quite the fan, he's particularly into Ernie and Bert (though in our house, his Ernie has a special relationship...
I identified with Calvin. Now my sympathies lie at least equally with his parents.Spurred by Calinball rules via DeLong.
Michelle Obama is doing something very interesting. She is taking back family values from the right.According to Reuters: Michelle Obama brings the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House as first lady to President-elect Barack Obama, but she says her priority will be her role as 'mom-in-chief' to the couple's two daughters. Michelle Obama, 44, was a passionate advocate for her husband's candidacy, but she says she would not want a direct policy role in an Obama administration.To those for whom breaking the gendered glass ceiling would have felt as or more transformative than seeing...
Perspectives on Politics just published a depressing assessment of the prospects for women in the academy, placing much of the blame for the glass ceiling on the "intractable tension between professional success and family duties." The section of the article concludes: "Virtually every woman with children [interviewed] noted the difficulties in balancing career and family. Mary and Gale remind us that family versus career is a human problem, not just one with which women wrestle." Hear, hear. While the authors conclude that there is little evidence that society or political science as a...