Last week, The Boston Globe interviewed five working mothers about, “how motherhood has helped them on the job,” as part of its Women & Power package. How I wish they would also highlight how daughterhood helps on the job too. The mothers featured in the article credited motherhood with on-the-job purpose, delegation skills, self-respect, open-mindedness, and […]
Eldercare and career don’t always feel compatible, but millions of people work outside the home while also caring for an aging and or ill family member or friend. According to research, the majority of caregivers struggle at work as a result of their caregiving. Sixty percent report that they cut back their hours, change jobs or quit as a […]
My father died on a Friday. I made his funeral arrangements over the weekend and went to work on Monday. My company offers three days of bereavement leave for a family member. The funeral was planned for Wednesday, so I took that day off, of course, plus Tuesday and Thursday. Tuesday I took my daughter […]
A recent report from Home Instead Inc. highlights the challenges of working female caregivers of older adults. Women are twice as likely as men to spend more than 30 hours a week on caregiving. Women are more stressed than men are due to caregiving responsibilities. Gender-based pay inequity creates issues for female caregivers, as thirty-seven […]
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Four Strategies to Help You Decide When your elderly parent is hospitalized, you of course face many challenges like tackling new medical problems, dealing with insurance companies, communicating and coordinating with doctors and specialists, and not to be minimized at all, trying to balance your responsibilities at work with your responsibilities as a caregiver. Many […]
It’s been exactly one year since I published an article in The Atlantic titled, “The Crisis Facing America’s Working Daughters,” and so I want to examine what has changed for family caregivers in that time. Last year I wrote, “For America’s working daughters, there is little to help them navigate between their careers and the needs of their […]
Truth is, I’m not a fan of the word “empowered.” But desperate times call for desperate measures. And these, working daughters, are desperate times. So know this: there are things you can do to feel empowered in 2017 and the first is to acknowledge and accept your current situation. Caregiving can make even the strongest […]
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Today in the Working Daughter Facebook Group, a member raised the issue of women who seem to be able to do it all. She wanted to know what we thought of a suggestion to ask seemingly successful women what they don’t do, instead of asking how they accomplish so much. I am a proponent of […]
When we are called selfless, and tireless; when people talk about our sacrifice; when we do a Google images search for eldercare and this is what we see:(behold the chokehold!), we think all other caregivers must be perfect. Clearly, every other caregiver goes about their busy and overwhelming day full of love and smiles and grace and […]
One of the most challenging things about being a working daughter is that caregiving is unpredictable. You just don’t know when someone might get sick and need your help. But if there is one thing we can predict, it is that caregiving will at some point interfere with our paid work. When that happens, we […]
