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2 weeks ago | 
msn.com | Brigid Schulte |Haley Swenson
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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3 weeks ago | 
healthyfutures.blog | Julia Craven |Haley Swenson
The concept of the mental load—the combination of emotional and cognitive work a person does to keep themselves and those they care for functioning—has entered mainstream conversations about gender inequality and the modern household at a remarkable pace. Its rapid adoption suggests it resonates. Yet, the mental load, much like the work-family balance discourse, has remained mostly associated with and circulated most prominently among white and professional-class people.
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4 weeks ago | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
Have you been spending your nights awake, worrying about the economy and how your family will survive a recession? Did you take the afternoon off to find the right summer camp for your kids' particular needs, six months before school let out? Are you always the one remembering family members' birthdays and thinking of gifts they will enjoy?
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1 month ago | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
What We’re Trying to Solve: The work of cooking for a household during a busy work weekTarget Audience: Members of a community, any household typeAges: AdultsCategory: Meal Planning and CookingEstimated Time: 1-2 hours per weekLength: At least two weeks, but we recommend committing to fourDifficulty Level: MediumInterested? If you're willing to give this a try, we'd love to hear from you about how it went! Take our survey here.
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1 month ago | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
Shannon Amspacher has a dream. What if we cut our weekly cooking time nearly in half, added more variety and home-cooked food to our family’s weekly menu, and built meaningful community ties at the same time? That’s the idea behind Potluck, a technology platform that Amspacher is in the process of developing that would match individuals with someone in their community who also wants to share the load of weekly meal planning and preparation.
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1 month ago | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
Are we headed for a recession? Will long-standing political institutions and norms fall? Will the public policies our families and communities rely on be there in the coming years? Are my basic political rights going to change? Today, Americans face a near-avalanche of uncertainty about major social, economic, and political questions. In the midst of this public uncertainty, they continue to navigate the big, deep, and personal questions people have asked themselves throughout history.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
My friend texts me, worried that her husband—a federal worker—might lose his job. Even if he keeps it, he’ll have to begin commuting to an office he’s never set foot in, throwing their child care into disarray. I commiserate. My wife and I still haven’t found a solid, affordable child care option; our son is two.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson
Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey self-identifies as a nerd. She’s felt pulled toward numbers, analytics, and experimentation her whole life. She loved math and science growing up and studied electrical engineering in college. In her first job as an engineer, however, she felt isolated. She was the only young Black woman in her work world, and her colleagues all seemed to be in different life stages.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
newamerica.org | Haley Swenson |Stephanie LeBlanc-Godfrey
Have you ever been asked to help a child with math homework, and then immediately panicked when you looked at the page? You aren’t alone. Today, homework help, like most childcare activities, falls more on women’s shoulders than on men’s. The latest data from the American Time Use Survey suggests women in households with children under 18 spend about four times as much of their day helping kids with homework than do men. But it does not need to be this way.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
thepersistent.com | Haley Swenson |Francesca Donner |Ruchika Malhotra
💛The Persistent is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. This week, the CNN journalist Christina Macfarlane asked the World Cup rugby star Ilona Maher how she overcomes her imposter syndrome. If you don’t know Maher, you should. She’s not only a brilliant athlete who helped Team USA win its first Rugby medal in 100 years at last year’s Summer Olympics, she’s also an outspoken feminist who constantly challenges gender and body norms on social media.
