by Christine Marlet | Aug 10, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality, Work-Life Balance/Integration
Fatherhood is changing, and the data now shows that this shift is real. New research from the American Institute for Boys and Men highlights a major trend that many couples are already experiencing in their own homes. After years of stalled progress, gender convergence inside the home has restarted, and fathers are helping drive the change. Men are spending more time caring for their children, taking on household responsibilities, and becoming more engaged in their children’s emotional lives.
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 | Apr 25, 2026 | All, Female identity, Gender Equality, Male identity, Work-Life Balance/Integration
I argue that the breadwinner model is not traditional but was a radical invention that was little more than a century old at its peak. It carried within it the very pathologies that now afflict the dual-earner model that succeeded it. If we want to understand why men and women struggle to build genuine partnerships today, we need to go further back than the postwar golden age to really understand what the breadwinner model replaced.
by Christine Marlet | Feb 12, 2026 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Gender Equality, Women in Entrepreneurship, Women in Leadership, Work-Life Balance/Integration
Matrescence is the profound psychological, physical, emotional, and social transformation women undergo when becoming mothers—comparable to adolescence in scope. Despite being one of the most significant developmental transitions in adult life, it remains largely unnamed, unsupported, and misunderstood in professional environments.
by Christine Marlet | Dec 28, 2025 | All, Fatherhood-Motherhood-Children Education, Female identity, Women and Men Cooperation at Home, Work-Life Balance/Integration
In my work as a life consultant, I often speak with professional women who have recently married and become mothers. Particularly in the early years of raising children, it’s not unusual for these highly educated, successful women to find themselves challenged by the new burdens of domesticity.
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