Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. Yet somehow neither work nor the family has changed enough to make this a tenable situation.
Day care is still catch as catch can.
Add stagnating wages and layoff anxiety, and for millions of Americans, each week becomes a stressful triage between work and home that leaves them feeling guilty, exhausted and angry. Over the past year, the Public Policy Institute at Radcliffe College has been studying the work-family conundrum. The project, called the New Economic Equation, conducted focus groups around the country with men and women on all rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. Last week the institute held a two-day conference to review the findings and propose solutions. Judging from the discussion among more than three dozen business and labor leaders, economists and family experts, the news is not good.