Our tax code encourages people to raise thoroughbred horses, not children.
We need to start talking about child-rearing in the workplace.
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.
My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.
American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.
I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work.
Men have to ask, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.
It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
It is important that women support each other. Most of us will at some point get married and have children, and how you balance that really depends on the quality of your friends and whether your friends are there for you. It also depends on what the policies are in your workplace.
