Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to work-life balance.
Not all women’s entrepreneurship is created equal
How work-family conflict can segregate women into lower-status ventures and reinforce gender gaps in entrepreneurship.
New family care policies provide more flexibility, but for whom?
Sarah Kaplan comments on new family care policies in an op-ed in the Toronto Star -- pointing out that it might not help, and might even hurt, especially women's careers.
Your ambition is showing
How single women downplay their professional ambitions around single men
Learning Doesn’t Mean a Livelihood
On International Day of the Girl, Sarah Kaplan and Rachael Goodman argue for The Mark News that, though girls may be encouraged to get educated, family responsibilities and cultural expectations can hold them back from the working world. Also in Japan Times, Peruvian Times, Cyprus Mail
Gender inequality in entrepreneurial teams
The traditional division of household labour gets reproduced in husband-wife ventures
Masculine norms keep us from gender equality
How societal expectations of men’s behavior shape their responses to supportive work-family policies.