The 10 Best Places for Working Daughters to Work
We have compiled a list of The Best Places To Work for Working Daughters, recognizing companies that understand support working daughters, and sons, at work is a business imperative.
Category Archives: Career
How To Feel Empowered When You’re A Caregiver
There are things we can do to feel empowered even when caregiving throws up challenge after challenge. Here are 8 suggestions.
14 Tips for Working Daughters
Balancing eldercare and career is not an easy feat; eldercare is intense and unpredictable. Most working daughters find they need to make some adjustments to how they work, live and care. We have 14 tips for balancing eldercare and career.
Working Daughters in the Workplace: 2023 Report
Working daughter surveyed 587 family caregivers and conducted interviews with dozens of women balancing eldercare and career to understand how their caregiving responsibilities impact their work, and what they need from their employers to remain in the workforce.
The Best Places To Work For Working Daughters
List honors businesses that support employee caregivers Recently, we went in search of the best places to work for working daughters. In time for National Working Daughters Day, here is our inaugural list. The list recognizes companies that support family caregivers and also raises awareness that businesses must do more to make caregiving and career compatible. The Best […]
We won’t stop an exodus of women until we address eldercare
Commentary: A slew of recent reports have sounded the alarm bells about gender equity in the workplace and offered solutions to rectify it, but they basically ignore a critical component of working women’s lives: balancing work and eldercare. Until we address the fact that tens of millions of working women are caring for aging relatives, […]
Returning to Work After A Career Break Due to Eldercare
For working daughters, taking a career break is often the only option we see for finding the time and energy to care for an aging and/or ill parent or family member. In fact, nearly 70 percent of caregivers experience work-related interruptions and many of us stop work as a result. But remaining unemployed after caregiving ends […]
Should I Tell My Boss I’m A Caregiver?
Should I tell my boss I’m a caregiver? I get asked this question almost weekly from women and men who are trying to balance eldercare with their careers. The answer is it depends. How eldercare affects careers If you have aging parents, there is a good chance at some point, your caregiving responsibilities will impact […]
Now can we get real about supporting working daughters?
Four times as many people are out of the workforce due to adultcare as are out due to childcare.
Introducing the Best Places to Work for Working Daughters
At Working Daughter, we are on a mission to make caregiving and career compatible. Right now balancing the two is not so easy! While there is an endless stream of resources to guide working mothers – friends and family throw them baby showers to help prepare them for childcare, they go to Mommy & Me […]
How to Keep Working From Home Post Pandemic (at least some of the time!)
Well before COVID, most Americans (89%) believed employers should try to offer workers flexibility to meet their families’ needs, as long as the work got done. The the global pandemic shuttered our workplaces and many employers had no choice but to let employees work from home. Now, as the country reopens, workers are being called back to […]
Pandemic Performance Reviews
If you are a working daughter facing a pandemic performance review this spring, don’t fret. Here are some tips for approaching your review this year and addressing your caregiving responsibilities.
