The Failure Of The Phrase 'work-life Balance'

Anne-Marie Slaughter, The Atlantic: Sexes
Wed, 12/16/2015 - 2:47pm

The Failure of the Phrase 'Work-Life Balance'

How people think and talk about an issue matters. Every time people say “working mother” but don’t say “working father,” every time people talk about parental issues (or caregiving issues generally) as “women’s issues,”—together these small failures continually reinforce the assumption that it is up to women to raise children and care for elders, even though most people now accept that it is up to both women and men to earn a living.

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