by Christine Marlet | Aug 6, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
There is a deeply held belief—one that is almost never spoken aloud but is ever-present—that professional and family life function like communicating vessels: what one gains, the other loses. Under this logic, balancing motherhood with a high-level career—whether in sports, management, or academia—is not a matter of two projects coexisting, but rather two projects competing for the same scarce resource: time, energy, and the ability to be present.
by Christine Marlet | Aug 4, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
What are we to make of this odd agreement between career-focused liberal feminists and gender-role-obsessed traditionalists that prospective housewives shouldn’t go to college? Does a woman who wants to be a stay-at-home mother have any business pursuing higher education, even a master’s degree or a PhD? Is a woman who ends up staying home to care for her kids wasting her education?
by Christine Marlet | Jun 22, 2026 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity
In the real world, meanwhile, ordinary men and women are moving peacefully towards a more gender-equal world. Dramatic economic improvements for women are being matched by a huge increase in the amount of domestic work and child care being done by men. Support for the ideals of gender equality continues to rise. There are more men in our homes caring for kids, and more women in the Houses of Congress, C-suites, and state legislatures.
by Christine Marlet | Jun 22, 2026 | All, Gender Equality
In my work in ethics and philosophy of life and organisational sciences, a consistent theme is what makes us human, and how those human attributes are challenged by changed social structures and in the development of technologies designed to augment or replace human activities.
by Christine Marlet | Jun 19, 2026 | All, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership
One of the least recognised patterns in executive transition is that many high-performing women do not slow down when uncertainty increases. They accelerate.
From the outside, this often looks admirable. They become more proactive, more productive, more visible, more responsive, and even more committed to proving their value. Their LinkedIn becomes sharper. Their networking intensifies. Their positioning becomes increasingly refined. New certifications appear. More conversations are initiated. More effort is invested into remaining relevant, strategic, and in motion.
Yet underneath all of that activity, something very different is often happening internally.
by Christine Marlet | Jun 10, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Gender Equality
Childbirth trauma is a major public health issue in the United States, as well as globally, with up to one third of mothers1 describing their birth experiences as traumatic, and up to 20 percent reporting clinically significant symptoms of PTSD, though the number is likely higher given the prevalence of underreporting, misdiagnosis, and an absence of routine screening protocols and any formal diagnosis.
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