How to Make the U.S. a Better Place for Caregivers: An inventory of strategies that could improve the situation of America’s working parents, from the beginning of their children’s lives to their end of their own (by Anne-Marie Slaughter)
“Breadwinning makes no sense without caregiving. Someone must transform income into the food, shelter, clothing, nurture, discipline, education, minding, nursing, transportation, and emotional support that creates life outside of the office, permits survival of the race, cares for the ill and disabled, and makes life livable when we can no longer care for ourselves….But care is not “women’s work.” It is human work, work that embodies and expresses the love and connections to others that make us human in the first place.” Read more here.
