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Brigid Schulte was a staff writer at the Washington Post and Washington Post magazine for nearly 17 years, and part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to the Post, her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, The Guardian, Slate, Time, CNN, and more.
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How Companies Can End a Culture of Overwork
Harvard Business Review — Recommendations for improving productivity while encouraging employees to lead fuller lives.
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Trump’s Right: DEI Programs Don’t Promote Fairness at Work. Here’s What Will
U.S. News & World Report — Most corporate diversity initiatives didn’t work very well. But there are programs that can work better.
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When Work Works for Parents and Families, Everybody Wins
Early Childhood Matters — Seven strategies to keep work and family in balance
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Could these laws fix America’s broken work culture?
CNN — Journalist Brigid Schulte examines efforts to pass “right to disconnect” laws in California and around the globe that aim to give workers the prerogative to ignore work messages after hours.
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6 choices companies can make to create jobs that people love
Fast Company — Commit to good jobs for the long term, count workers as assets, measure well-being, and more tips to build a more equitable future of work.
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The true victims of the US eviction crisis
CNN — Kiarcia Schields, a solo parent, worked as a hospice nurse to support herself and her four children. When she lost child care, she lost her job and the family was evicted. Her children joined the the U.S. population most threatened by eviction: children under five.
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The Case Against Maternity Leave
Slate — Gender-neutral policies assume that all workers—not just women and mothers—have basic human needs.
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Caring for dying loved ones is a luxury few can afford.
Washington Post — Caring for dying loved ones is a luxury few can afford. I was lucky. We don't give people the time they need.
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The secret to happy, healthy homes? Universal childcare
Fast Company — Having a stable home, or even being able to afford one, requires stable childcare—something COVID-19 cast in sharp relief. The question now is what to do about it.
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Preventing Busyness from Becoming Burnout
Harvard Business Review — Research finds that it’s virtually impossible for people to break out of their “busyness tunnel” without structural changes within an organization.
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A woman's greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself
The Guardian — If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect.
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You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life
Harvard Business Review — Intense and all-consuming work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super productive leader. But does it have to be that way?
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Mother and Daughter Do the Same Job. Why Does One Make $9 More an Hour?
New York Times — Caring for others runs in the Williams family. Danielle Williams and her daughter have spent their entire adult lives caring for others.
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What Moms Always Knew About Working From Home
New York Times — The obsession with office “face time” hurts women. When the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, let’s not return to it.
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Even Work-Life Balance Experts Are Awful at Balancing Work and Life
The Cut — Brigid Schulte explores behavioral science, why change is hard, and writes in New York Magazine how being an expert sometimes isn’t enough.
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