Finding Balance

After having three jobs in three years, I learned that a paycheck isn’t the only thing that matters.

High ambition is a great thing, but it’s no secret that a demanding career often puts your relationship to the test.

Across the country, parents are struggling to afford childcare, which can cost more than 12 percent of a two-parent family’s income.

When my second child was born, it just made sense for my career to take a backseat to my husband’s nine-to-five job.

At the time, I was working overnights as a behavioral health technician in an inpatient…

You are desperate to get away. The overbearing boss, the high maintenance client, your triple-digit inbox notifications, and too many hours of CNN have you in a funk.

Or maybe it’s worse than a funk — You’ve conjured…

For the first three years of my child’s life, I didn’t have to pay for childcare. My work-from-home job gave me some flexibility, and I had a family member nearby who helped look after my daughter.

If the standard six to 12 weeks of maternity leave didn’t feel adequate for your family, causing you to leave your job behind for a period of time, you’re certainly not alone.

Welcoming a new baby into your world is a wonderful, exciting, and overwhelming experience. And it can feel like almost no time has passed before you are faced with the difficult decision of whether to stay home with your baby…

A few months after I gave birth to my second child, a senior (and childless) executive I admired pulled me aside at work. You’re doing a great job, she assured. “But,” she added, and looked me…

I had a fairly straightforward, predictable pregnancy. The hardest thing about it was the 45-minute commute to work with a growing baby sitting on my bladder. I was a state employee, a senior editor at UC Berkeley, underpaid but…

There are 168 hours in a week and we're all so busy.

We say it all the time. "I have so much going on. I wish I had time for that." We convince our friends, our…

From all angles, the Democratic convention was deemed a smashing success. Even conservatives agreed. As a woman, it was a historic experience. This March I lost my mom, a gargantuan feminist in her own right — she would have loved…

Americans are terrible at taking vacations, and that’s a shame, because they aren’t helping their companies or themselves. People are just less productive in summer, for a whole host of reasons. So you might as well hang out…

This post was originally published on Everyday Feminism.

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“Why complain about the wage gap when women in this other faraway country can’t even work?”

“Oh, please. You think your reproductive rights are…

When expectant father Brian asked his boss about paternity leave, his boss thought he meant maternity leave — the company didn’t offer it for men. The company ended up granting Brian just 1.7 days to spend with…

As your career path changes, you may shift between working in an office and working at home — either as your own boss or a remote employee. If you’re heading back into office life after a period of setting your…

After relocating to a new city, I was invited to join a local women’s book club. A group of twenty- and thirtysomething women clustered in the living room, pouring drinks and chatting away, immediately welcomed me. A few…

They’re called America’s “invisible workforce” — and you likely know at least one member, or are one yourself. I’m talking about family caregivers. These are people who may have demanding careers, but are forced to cut back, or…

My sleep evangelism started with my own painful wake-up call. On the morning of April 6, 2007, I was lying on the floor of my home office in a pool of blood. On my way down, my head had…

In an era in which job hopping is the new norm, it can be helpful to think of your career as separate from, and more important than, whatever job you’re in at the moment. Jobs come and go…