The XX Factor : work-life balance

Opted Out or Pushed Away?

Kerry Howley — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:27:00 GMT

The media's obsession with the "opt-out revolution" has become pretty annoying, but Jane Leber Herr of the University of Chicago has some interesting research on which educated women are most likely to drop out of the labor force and why. Fifteen years...(read more)

How Work-Life Balance Is Like the George Bush Center for Intelligence (Oxymorons R Us)

Melinda Henneberger — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:40:00 GMT

Dahlia , when you give these work-life balance talks, do you tell the young women who've come to hear you the unvarnished truth? Because I'd have to say that I tend to accentuate the happier truth (that writing is one of the most flexible careers around,...(read more)

Mama, Can I Come to Your Lifehacking Seminar?

Dana Stevens — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:11:00 GMT

Dahlia , now I'm cracking up at the image of you racing off to give talks on work-life balance while two midgets yank at your coat begging you not to go. "Hands off! I have to go talk about work-life balance!"...(read more)

Let's Not Forget the Sugar Babies

Ann Hulbert — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:52:00 GMT

Dahlia , I think you've introduced the missing ingredient that Dana , too, stirred into the equation: kids. And Hanna, mother of three, I wonder what you say to this: the fantasy of having the security (courtesy of a spouse with a regular, and large enough,...(read more)

The Mommy Catnip of Work-Life Balance Stories

Dahlia Lithwick — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Meghan , I think I agree with your diagnosis but perhaps not your prescription. It’s true that every woman in the public eye in America is instantly run through the sum-of-her-choices machine and found wanting. From Sarah Palin to Angelina Jolie, it seems...(read more)

No More Advice for Michelle Obama! Except This.

Meghan O'Rourke — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:11:00 GMT

Ladies, gentlemen: Are any of you, like me, getting tired of all the discussion surrounding Michelle Obama's "choices"? Yesterday in the New York Times : a long piece about women worrying whether Michelle "will become a pioneer or a dispiriting symbol...(read more)