by Christine Marlet | Dec 3, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity
The conflation of selfhood with professional identity and self-worth with productivity and ambition is, of course, why stay-at-home motherhood is regarded as such a lowly vocation. At home, there’s no remuneration for services rendered or ladder to climb, nor is there much external validation. To be a stay-at-home mother is, therefore, to step outside of the productivity paradigm entirely, “to [fall] off the edge of the working world,” in the words of Mary Harrington.
by Christine Marlet | Nov 27, 2025 | All, Gender Equality
Measuring gender gaps is challenging. For one thing, distributions overlap even when there is a gap at the average. In the U.S., median female earnings are 18 percentage points lower than male earnings, but 40% of women earn more than the median man. Women live five years longer than men on average, but 36% of men live longer than the median woman. Analyzing gender gaps across different subgroups also complicates the picture: white women now earn considerably more than Black men, for example (at the average, of course).
by Christine Marlet | Nov 21, 2025 | All, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
The conflict between work and family in our day is a problem in need of a fix. Though we debate various public policy solutions that might ease the tension, generally, we leave each parent to resolve the disharmony on his or her own. The result is a good deal of day-to-day stress.
by Christine Marlet | Nov 18, 2025 | All, Gender Equality, Male identity
While there has been post-pandemic progress in areas such as education (albeit a gender attainment gap still persists), recent figures on employment, suicide and crime have not “recovered.” These have been featured in the CPRMB report (Missing Men Business Scorecard).The national level messaging and narrative (including the political message) has changed since Netflix’s Adolescence due to evidence-based research from the Centre for Social Justice’s Lost Boys Report, The narrative has changed from “The problems (young men) and boys cause” to” The problems (young) men and boys have – and now we do something to help them.”
by Christine Marlet | Nov 12, 2025 | All, Gender Equality, Women and Men Collaboration at Work, Women and Men Cooperation at Home
Every year, headlines remind us that women earn less than men. In 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that full-time working women earned 82 cents for every dollar earned by men, which reflects a reversal of progress to a now widening gap. That number is technically correct, but it tells only part of the story. The way we measure the gender pay gap has not evolved with how couples live and work today.
by Christine Marlet | Nov 4, 2025 | All, Gender Equality, Women and Men Collaboration at Work, Women in Leadership
I’ve been staring at KPMG’s latest research on female leaders, and there’s a story hidden between the numbers that no one is talking about. The headline reads like a triumph: 90% of female executives expect their companies to grow. They’re investing in AI, building cyber-resilience, leading through uncertainty with what the report calls “agility and adaptability.”But there’s a darker narrative buried in the data—one that reveals how female leaders are being forced to redefine success itself.
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