From Time Confetti To · 2014-10-15 · Let My People Go Surfing . Love . The Ideal Mother . Twice...
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From Time Confetti To
Time Serenity
The Good Life
Play
Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Busyness as a Badge of Honor
Play Makes Us Human
The A Ha! Moment
Women. Don’t. Play.
Play anyway
Time is Power
Time Confetti
Contaminated Time
High Anxiety
31
%
World Health Organization
Nigeria
6.5%
A Little Stress is Good
Too Much Stress Shrinks Our
Brains
Ansell, Rando, Tuitt, Guarnaccia,
Sinha, Biological Psychiatry, 2012
Mindfulness Stretches Them
Holzel, Carmody, Vangel, Congleton, Yeramsetti, Gard, Lazar, Psychiatry
Research: Neuroimaging, 2011
Work
The Ideal Worker?
Source: U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics
Long Hours Rewarded
Claudia Goldin, American Economic Review
The Tiara Syndrome
10,000 Hours
Ericsson, Krampe, Tesch-Romer, Psychological
Review, 1993
The Power of the Pulse
The New Ideal Worker
The Pentagon can do it. Why can’t we?
Sludge Eradication
Let My People Go Surfing
Love
The Ideal Mother
Twice the Housework & Childcare
The College Gender Gap
Women in Senior Management
0
5
10
15
20
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30
35
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45
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Unconscious Bias
No Automatic Bias
Male = Family
Female =
Source: Project Implicit
Male = Career
Female = Family
Can A Domestic Traditionalist Be an
Organizational Egalitarian? … NO
Desai, Chugh, Brief, 2012
Should Preschool Moms Work?
Men
10.5 10.7 12.7
28.4 30.9 39.1
61.1 58.4 48.3
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1988 1994 2002
Full Time Part Time Stay Home
Should Preschool Moms Work?
Women
11 12.3 15.2
38.9 35.8
42.8
50.2 51.9
42
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1988 1994 2002
Full Time Part Time Stay Home
Mothers in the Workforce
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
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80
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1955 1965 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2004 2010
Under 18 School Age Under 6
Breadwinner Mothers
Center for American Progress
The Flexibility Stigma
The Maternal Wall
.96 $1.00 .93
$1.00
.76
$1.00
Unmarried Women
Unmarried Men Childless Women's Pay
Childless Men's Pay
Mother's Pay Father's Pay
Michelle J. Budig, U Mass Amherst
Who Gets Tenure?
Married Men with Children
70%
Married Men - No Children
15%
Single Men with Children
4% Single Men - No Children
11%
Men
Married Women with
Children 44%
Married Women - No
Children 19%
Single Women with Children
11%
Single Women - No Children
26%
Women
Mary Ann Mason, “Do Babies Matter?”
Media Gender Gap
22 20
36 27
78 80
64 73
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Subjects Experts Journalists Top Managers
Women Men
Gender Neutral Policies
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
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ACS
AGU
AMS
ASA
MAA
SfN
SIAM
American Women in Science,
2014
Paid Parental Leave
U.S. Fertility
0
0.5
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1.5
2
2.5
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No High School or GED
High School or GED
Some College B.S. or higher
Men
Women
National Center for Health Statistics, 2012
Start Small
“Project Dad”
Moms Carrying the Load
Arnalds, Eydal, Gislason, 2013
70% Equally Shared Care
The Myth of AWOL Parents
Parent Time with Children
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1965 1975 1985 1995 2000
Married Fathers Married Mothers Single Mohters
The Cult of Intensive Motherhood
“End the Mommy Wars”
What children really need
The Third Shift
Really?
The Lesson of the Twinkie
The Relationship Equation
A + B = C
A’ + B = C’
Time Serenity
Multi-tasking Makes Us Stupid
Beauty in the Ordinary Moment
Minister of Gender Equality
Finding Time for
Work, Love & Play
1. Pause. Disrupt the busyness
2. Be aware of the Pressure of cultural ideals. Uncover Make unconscious bias conscious.
3. Set your own Priorities. Create a Network of Support
4. Mind the Gap. Plan Do Review
5. Flip the To Do List. Joy First. Stuff later
6. Set Common Standards. Share the Load
7. Chunk your time. Work in Pulses. Take Breaks
8. More is not more. Find the Sweet Spot
9. Schedule PLAY. You do deserve it
10. Shorten your Time Horizon
Follow Your Internal Compass
Just Start
@BrigidSchulte
BrigidSchulte.com washingtonpost.com/people/brigid-schulte
Self-Efficacy: Jedi Mind Tricks
• Mastery Experiences. The more you do
some things well, the more you’ll build the
confidence to do other things well
• Role models and Mentors
• Positive Feedback. Listen to & believe it
• “Snap Out of It.” Interrupt negative & self-
defeating pattern of thought
Redefine Good Work • Culture trumps policy
• Leaders set culture
• Make Conscious unconscious bias
• Gender Neutral hiring, firing, promoting, reviewing
• Sponsors, Mentors & Role Models
• Control & Predict workflow
• Define Mission. Clarify Expectations.
• Metrics. How much is enough? When is it good enough? How do you know?
• Communicate
• Reward Performance, not hours and face time
• Flexibility for all
• Embrace the Power of the Pulse
• Invest in Authentic workers. Not ideal workers
• Rethink Career Trajectories
• Reimagine Gender Roles
• Recapture Leisure. Take Breaks. Unplug. Go on Vacation
Family Policy for the 21st century
• Bring back the 40 hour work week!
• Fair Pay
• Good part-time work with benefits
• Paid family leave, sick days, time off
• The “Father Quota:” promote solo leave for men
• Affordable, high quality child care
• Flexible work for all
• Redefine career success
• Tax & Social Security policies that support diverse family structures
• Factor “invisible labor” of caretaking into GDP
• Portable health care