Working Nation
How Women's Progress is Reshaping America's Families and Economy
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what has happened to workers and their families, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as one of the most important transformations. Workplaces are no longer the domain of men: Women now make up half (49.8 percent) of employer's payrolls. Quite simply, women employed outside the home changes everything. We need to ensure that everyone—men and women, parents and non-parents alike—is able to meet the challenges of the workplace, while being able to provide care for their family. We need new ground rules that recognize this transformation.
Working Nation explores research and policy ideas behind and beyond The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything.
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Our Working Nation
Report from Heather Boushey and Ann O'Leary on how working women are reshaping America’s families and economy and what it means for policymakers.
The Three Faces of Work-Family Conflict
The poor, the professionals, and the missing middle need policies that allow them to achieve the American Dream, write Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams in this report.
A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything
Women as half of all workers changes everything, and is the key piece to understanding why we are in a transformational moment.Framing the Debate on Work-Life Conflict: A CAP panel discusses how progressives and conservatives can work together to support more family-friendly workplace policies.
Work and Family Are Middle-Class Issues: Heather Boushey and Ann O’Leary laud the Middle Class Task Force for acknowledging that balancing work and caregiving is a central issue for American families.
It’s Time for Policies to Match Family Needs: New polling data shows widespread support for an agenda to address work-family conflict, writes Heather Boushey.
Resolving Work-Life Conflicts: Work-life conflict is about jobs, future economic growth, and modern-day family realities, Heather Boushey and Joan C. Williams write, and progressives have answers.
Are We Headed into the Great Recovery?: New employment numbers show that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has injected new momentum into the economy, writes Heather Boushey.