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Parenting While PhDing

Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents

by Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Jenna Morton-Aiken, Judith Chriqui Benchimol, Jennifer C. Judd, Whitney Zahar Rich, Alicia Christine Beretta, Elizabeth M. Williams, Elise Green, Emily Gresbrink0, Keith Jackson1, Karen Tellez-Trujillo2, Dalel Serda3, Lisa E. Wright4, Rachael Jordan5, Laura Fitzwater Gonzales6, Natasha Trace Robinson7, Tiffani Tijerina8, Jennifer Burke Reifman9, Kate Lafferty-Danner0, James B. Harr III1, Calvin Olsen2, Daniel Henke3, Erin Henke4, Camilla Ring5, Brita M. Thielen6, Hayley E. Verdi7, Aleashia Walton Valentin8, Courtney Lund O'Neil9, April Cobos0, Daniel L. Hocutt1, Megan McKittrick2, Danielle Marie Koepke3, Gitte Frandsen4, Celeste Graham5, Nabila Hijazi6, Amie McLean7, Lourdes Fernandez8, Jessica McCaughey9, Rachael Graham Tin0, Beth Buyserie1, Kristin Osborne2, Siham Lekchiri3, Barbara A.W. Eversole4, Stephanie L. Graff5, Mariya Tseptsura6, Morgan Buchs7, Rachel Flynn8, Laura Leigh Menard9, Brandie Bohney0, Jennifer Phillips-Denny1, Jacqueline Cerda-Smith2, Joan Jiyoung Hwang3, Sara Bartlett Large4, Danielle DeVasto5, Camila Ring6 ...

Being a PhD student is not easy. Navigating the highly competitive world of academia while working hard for little or no pay would be stressful for anyone—but it’s especially challenging for graduate students who are also parents.Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting While PhDing offers valuable advice for students and ... Read more

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Being a PhD student is not easy. Navigating the highly competitive world of academia while working hard for little or no pay would be stressful for anyone—but it’s especially challenging for graduate students who are also parents.Featuring contributions from more than forty current and former graduate students raising children, Parenting While PhDing offers valuable advice for students and
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Rage Becomes Her

The Power of Women's Anger

by Soraya Chemaly ...

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

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***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o...
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For the Love of Men

From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity

by Liz Plank ...

A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize—gendered toys came back in ... Read more

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A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved.In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys don’t cry and dolls are for girls (a newer phenomenon than you might realize—gendered toys came back in
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All the Rage

Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

by Darcy Lockman ...

Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents—how progressive relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced into the household.In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism ... Read more

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Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match our lived experiences?Journalist-turned-psychologist Darcy Lockman offers a clear-eyed look at the most pernicious problem facing modern parents—how progressive relationships become traditional ones when children are introduced into the household.In an era of seemingly unprecedented feminist activism
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This Chair Rocks

A Manifesto Against Ageism

by Ashton Applewhite ...

Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

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Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their
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Overwhelmed

Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

by Brigid Schulte ...

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our ... Read more

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Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our
... Read more
Choosing Single Motherhood

The Thinking Woman's Guide

by Mikki Morrissette ...

The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming a mother—includes the essential tools needed for parenting on your own, how best to follow through on your decision, and insight about answering the child’s questions and needs over time.Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life ... Read more

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The comprehensive guide for single women interested in proactively becoming a mother—includes the essential tools needed for parenting on your own, how best to follow through on your decision, and insight about answering the child’s questions and needs over time.Choosing Single Motherhood, written by a longtime journalist and Choice Mother (a woman who chooses to conceive or adopt without a life
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All the Gold Stars

Reimagining Ambition and the Ways We Strive

by Rainesford Stauffer ...

From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the “right” college to hustle and ... Read more

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From journalist and author of An Ordinary Age, an examination, dismantling, and reconstruction of ambition, where burnout is the symptom of our holiest sin: the lonely way we strive.Ambition—the want, the hunger, the need to achieve—is woven into America’s fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the “right” college to hustle and
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Equal Partners

Improving Gender Equality at Home

by Kate Mangino ...

Rewrite gender norms and create a balanced home life with this groundbreaking guide to household equity."An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."—Booklist (starred review)"This book is a beautiful, engaging way to look at the modern family and Mangino works to dismantle gendered assumptions and replace them with structured decision making examples and ... Read more

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Rewrite gender norms and create a balanced home life with this groundbreaking guide to household equity."An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."—Booklist (starred review)"This book is a beautiful, engaging way to look at the modern family and Mangino works to dismantle gendered assumptions and replace them with structured decision making examples and
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What’s on Her Mind

The Mental Workload of Family Life

by Allison Daminger ...

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of ... Read more

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The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides an illuminating look at the cognitive labor that families depend on and reveals why this essential aspect of
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Pay Up

The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)

by Reshma Saujani ...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Reshma Saujani…offers a daring new approach: it’s not our job to do more, it’s time for our workplaces to pay up.” —Tarana Burke, founder of the “me too” movementThe founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working ... Read more

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Reshma Saujani…offers a daring new approach: it’s not our job to do more, it’s time for our workplaces to pay up.” —Tarana Burke, founder of the “me too” movementThe founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working
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Unfinished Business

Women Men Work Family

by Anne-Marie Slaughter ...

Includes a new afterword by the author • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna HuffingtonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMISTWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as ... Read more

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Includes a new afterword by the author • “Slaughter’s gift for illuminating large issues through everyday human stories is what makes this book so necessary for anyone who wants to be both a leader at work and a fully engaged parent at home.”—Arianna HuffingtonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND THE ECONOMISTWhen Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as
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