The Great Mom Walk-Out and the Great Resignation are causing people to rethink work—to define and demand what they need and want from work to support their lives. What would happen if we prioritized care?
How Katherine Goldstein is Using Movement Journalism to Create Change for Mothers
The Double Shift is challenging the status quo of motherhood and journalism.
Looking for a Job, Donovan Ervin Begins to Find Himself
A job search in 2020 brings up a big question: What kind of work will make me come alive?
What the Pandemic Taught Me About Work, Life, and Community
In 2020, I had planned to write the Life I Want book about a future of work that works for all. Instead, I spent the year probing my own relationship with work. Here’s what I learned about what’s missing in my life, and how we need to rewrite the rules of work.
Anne Helen Petersen is Holding Up a Mirror
Anne Helen Petersen’s new book, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, reminds us that things were deeply shitty even before 2020—and we have a narrow window right now to burn down our broken systems and build something better.
Fix Work for Moms, Fix Work for Everyone: Leslie Forde
Leslie Forde, founder of Mom’s Hierarchy of Needs, started a new business—in the middle of the pandemic, with two young kids at home—to help employers fix work for working parents. But first, she had to fix her own relationship with work.
How Will the Future of Work Affect Our Mental Health?
Mental health is a $16 trillion global crisis that is poised to get worse under the economic impacts of the coronavirus. Work is one of the primary determinants of our mental health, and as we look to rebuild after the pandemic, we have a choice: Will we fix work so it fuels our well-being, or will we let the conditions of work that damage our mental health grow unchecked?
The 40-year-old digital nomad
Keri Tietjen is a middle-aged, divorced mom of two with a full-time job for a big company. She’s not your typical digital nomad. Her story offers a glimpse of what the future of work could look like.
Is gender inequality keeping me from the life I want?
Gender inequality holds women back at work and forces them to do more at home, and it keeps men at work and away from their families. This makes everyone unhappy. What can we do, as individuals and couples, to live more gender-equal lives? I dissected my life, work, and marriage to find out.
Freedom of the hills: Outdoor Afro’s Rue Mapp is creating equity in the outdoors
Rue Mapp turned her passion into a job with purpose, balance, and vision—and she’s changing what it means to experience the outdoors.
Redefining work for women: One Roof Women Melbourne
One Roof Women Founder Sheree Rubinstein wants to make Australia the place for women in business.
Imagining a future of work that works for all
Now is the time to fix work so more people can live the life they want. But what does that look like?