Working Mothers

The momification of Michelle Obama The momification of Michelle Obama

The next first lady is an accomplished lawyer. But with the media focused on her clothes and family, Bamalot is starting to look a lot like Camelot.
By Rebecca Traister Nov 12, 2008

  • Mom, lawyer, musician?

    I have very little time but love playing the guitar!
    By Cary Tennis July 8, 2009

  • "Honeypots" need not apply

    British spy agency is on the hunt for female, minority applicants.
    By Lynn Harris July 23, 2008

  • The other mothers

    Lucy Kaylin, author of a new book on mothers' complicated relationship with nannies, talks frankly about playground politics, nannycams and how the "mommy wars" play into childcare choices.
    By Lynn Harris June 13, 2007

  • The stay-at-home mystique

    A new magazine, Total 180, is targeted at moms who have "opted out." But its pages are full of despairing screams, no sex, and women who are "let out" weekly by husbands.
    By Rebecca Traister December 6, 2005

  • The whole "working mother" thing actually works

    A new study finds that moms with jobs are happier than their stay-at-home counterparts. Take that, Caitlin Flanagan.
    By Carol Lloyd December 13, 2007

  • If the first date isn't great, why go out with him again?

    I'm a busy divorced mom in her 30s. I don't want to hurt men's feelings, but why pretend?
    By Cary Tennis December 3, 2007

  • Breasts at work

    How can mothers -- and companies -- make breast pumping on the job feasible?
    By Katharine Mieszkowski August 22, 2007

  • Are you being mommified?

    Columnist Ellen Goodman riffs on one of the biggest challenges facing working mothers: "Mommification."
    By Catherine Price May 15, 2007

  • The case for flexible work arrangements

    Employers need to stop equating face time with commitment.
    By Mary Shapiro February 2, 2007

  • What else we're reading

    Explaining the mystery of SIDS, working moms dare to enjoy themselves, someone finds a new Sylvia Plath poem, and more.
    By Page Rockwell November 1, 2006

  • Mommies on the tenure track

    How does motherhood affect scholarship at an Ivy League college?
    By Rebecca Traister March 20, 2006

  • Clueless in Manhattan

    The New York Times magazine finds a few rich white women to "prove" that working moms are starting their own "Opt-Out Revolution." Oy, not again.
    By Joan Walsh October 27, 2003

  • The all-too-female cluelessness of "I Don't Know How She Does It"

    When you make $750,000 a year, you don't sweat the domestic details. But the lastest hit novel about a miserable working mom is too ignorant and dishonest about money to deal with that.
    By Ann Marlowe October 23, 2002

  • Where's poppa?

    Another study causes alarm about children of working mothers. But one of the authors admits that fathers were again left out of the equation.
    By Audrey Fisch August 5, 2002

  • Winner's guilt

    After 20 years, I win a sex-discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. government. But do I deserve a reward?
    By Michal Keeley June 6, 2001

  • Banish the boogeymom!

    Why, when a woman chooses both to work and to mother, does she incite the sort of rage reserved for wayward clerics and defilers of sacred things?
    By Jennifer Foote Sweeney June 5, 2001

  • Freshen up your $1,000 tax cut, hon?

    What those oft-mentioned waitresses say about Bush's plan.
    By King Kaufman February 15, 2001

  • Need a great place to raise a kid?

    Try Yale Law School: You'll find flexible hours, sympathetic professors, a baby room and more!
    By Emily Bazelon June 5, 2000

  • My nanny, myself

    Is it any wonder that some days I love my nanny more than I love my husband?
    By Jennifer Bingham Hull September 13, 1999

  • Iron daddy

    This stay-at-home dad found that waiting for a call back from La Leche League is tougher than hanging out in an office all day.
    By Kevin Trotter September 8, 1999

  • Millennial family values

    Sociologist Stephanie Coontz on how American leaders have spent more time on the Clinton sex scandal than they have on issues that will affect the families of the future.
    By Stephanie Coontz November 30, 1998

  • Reluctant role model

    Reluctant role model -- my classmates wanted to hear 'It's easy to combine kids and graduate school'
    By Susan McCarthy November 24, 1997

  • Time for one thing: Just Do It

    Who needs a man when you can buy yourself a bucketful of lilacs?
    By Joyce Millman September 29, 1997

  • creating a life

    Women writers talk about motherhood, ambition, taking chances and making time for both kids and work.
    By Dayna Macy September 10, 1997
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