It is not only a question of who is responsible for very young children. There is no longer anyone home to care for adolescents an...d the elderly. There is no one around to take in the car for repair or to let the plumber in. Working families are faced with daily dilemmas: Who will take care of a sick child? Who will go to the big soccer game? Who will attend the teacher conference?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Employees from families where all adults work are still coping with rules and conditions of work designed, as one observer put it,... to the specifications of Ozzie and Harriet. These conditions include rigid adherence to a 40-hour workweek, a concept of career path inconsistent with the left cycle of a person with serious family responsibilities, notions of equity formed in a different era, and performance evaluation systems that confuse effort with results by equating hours of work with productivity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »