Unfinished Business (32 page)

“[Fathers] not only directed”
Ibid.

Home economics
Viviana A. Zelizer,
Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 62–64.

“The useful labor”
Ibid., pp. 97–98.

“manhood flowed out of [men's] utility”
Susan Faludi,
Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
(New York: HarperCollins, 2010), eBook, p. 816.

“a cloth-diapering wizard”
Abigail Rine, “Feminist Housedude,”
Mama Unabridged
, March 21, 2013,
mamaunabridged.com/2013/03/21/​feminist-housedude
.

Ginsburg once gave an interview
Jeffrey Rosen, “The New Look of Liberalism on the Court,”
New York Times
, October 5,
1997,
nytimes.com/1997/10/05/​magazine/​the-new-look-of-​liberalism-on-the-court.html
.

“You may think it can't happen”
Anne-Marie Slaughter, “Can We All ‘Have It All'?,” TEDGlobal 2013, June 2013,
ted.com/​talks/​anne_marie_slaughter_​can_we_all_have_it_all
.

“This new feature”
Rich Ferraro, “Facebook Introduces Custom Gender Field to Allow Users to More Accurately Reflect Who They Are,” GLAAD, February 13, 2014,
glaad.org/​blog/​facebook-​introduces-custom-gender-field-allow-​users-more-accurately-reflect-who-they-are
.

“backing away from [my] State Department job”
Gloria Feldt, “Why Women Must Seize This Moment,” CNN, March 14, 2013,
cnn.com/2013/03/10/​opinion/​feldt-women-balance
.

in the genre of women “dropping out”
Tara Sophia Mohr, “Slaughter's Story Made the Cover—What Stories Got Left Out?,”
Huffington Post
, July 9, 2012,
huffingtonpost.com/​tara-sophia-mohr/​having-it-all_b_1658131.html
.

“leaving to spend time with your family”
Laura Rozen, “Policy Planning's Anne-Marie Slaughter Signs Off,”
Politico
, February 3, 2011,
politico.com/​blogs/​laurarozen/0211/​Policy_Planning_chief_AnneMarie_​Slaughter_signs_off.html
.

“Ms. Flournoy's announcement”
Elizabeth Bumiller, “One of the Pentagon's Top Women Is Stepping Down,”
New York Times
, December 11, 2011,
nytimes.com/2011/12/13/​us/​michele-flournoy-resigns-​as-a-top-pentagon-adviser.html
.

“ ‘I can absolutely and unequivocally state' ”
Ibid.

“law firms trip all over themselves”
Email to Anne-Marie Slaughter, September 14, 2011.

“Women don't want to be singled out”
White House Working Families Summit, Part 2, Washington, D.C., June 23, 2014,
c-span.org/​video/?320109-101/​white-house-​working-families-summit-part-2
.

good “work/life fit”
Cali Williams Yost,
Work + Life: Finding
the Fit That's Right for You
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2004); Dan Schwabel, “Cali Williams Yost: Why We Have to Rethink Work Life Balance,”
Forbes
, January 8, 2013,
forbes.com/​sites/​danschawbel/2013/01/08/​cali-williams-yost-why-​we-have-to-rethink-work-life-balance
.

“custom-fit workplace”
Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas,
The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010), pp. 10–11; E. Kelly Moen and R. Huang, “ ‘Fit' Inside the Work/Family Black Box: An Ecology of the Life Course, Cycles of Control Reframing,”
Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
81 (2008): 411–33; Judy Casey and Karen Corday, “Work-Life Fit and the Life Course: An Interview with Phyllis Moen,” Sloan Work and Family Research Network,
Network News
11, no. 9 (September 2009).

“Plans are worthless”
From Eisenhower's speech to the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference in Washington, D.C., November 14, 1957; in National Archives and Records Service,
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1958), p. 818.

If you're an American woman
Social Security Online, “Life Expectancy Calculator,” Social Security Administration,
socialsecurity.gov/​cgi-bin/​longevity.cgi
.

will live to nearly 95
Felicitie C. Bell and Michael L. Miller, “Life Tables for the United States Social Security Area 1900–2100,” Social Security Administration, April 7, 2009,
socialsecurity.gov/​oact/​NOTES/​s2000s.html
.

your life expectancy is 82
Social Security Online, “Life Expectancy Calculator.”

due to the epidemic of obesity
Barry Bosworth and Kathleen Burke, “Differential Mortality and Retirement Benefits in the Health and Retirement Study,” Brookings Institution, April 8,
2014,
brookings.edu/​research/​papers/2014/04/​differential-mortality​-retirement-benefits-bosworth
.

“people in their twenties”
“Welcoming the Age of the Explorer,” Future of Work Research Consortium, October 2014,
hotspotsmovement.com/​uploads/​newsletters/​theexplorer.html
; Lynda Gratton,
The Shift: The Future of Work Is Already Here
(New York: HarperCollins Business, 2011).

working at a “portfolio” of part-time jobs
Barrie Hopson and Katie Ledger,
And What Do You Do? Ten Steps to Creating a Portfolio Career
(London: A & C Black, 2009).

David Brooks contrasts “résumé virtues”
David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List,”
New York Times
, April 12, 2015,
nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/​sunday/​david-brooks-the-​moral-bucket-list.html
.

interviewing ten Princeton graduates
Lisa Belkin, “The Opt-Out Revolution,”
New York Times
, October 26, 2003,
nytimes.com/2003/10/26/​magazine/​26WOMEN.html
.

“Fund-raising for a Manhattan private school”
Judith Warner, “The Opt-Out Generation Wants Back In,”
New York Times
, August 7, 2013,
nytimes.com/2013/08/11/​magazine/​the-opt-out-generation-​wants-back-in.html
.

“seesaw marriages”
Hanna Rosin,
The End of Men
(New York: Riverhead Books, 2012).

a new model of employer-employee relations
Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh,
The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age
(Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2014), eBook, p. 12.

“ ‘employees are our most valuable resource' ”
Ibid.

“talent really is the most valuable resource”
Ibid., p. 19.

“if retention in critical skills sets”
“Career Intermission Pilot Program Update,” U.S. Navy official website, October 2009,
public.navy.mil/​bupers-npc/​reference/​messages/​Documents/NAVADMINS/​NAV2009/​NAV09301.txt
; Rear Adm. Tony Kurta, “Career Intermission Pilot Program Updated,” Navy Live, May 16, 2013,
navylive.dodlive.mil/2013/05/16/​career-intermission-​pilot-program-updated
.

The air force is planning
Stephen Losey, “Air Force to Offer 3
Years Off for Airmen to Start Families,”
Air Force Times
, May 15, 2014,
airforcetimes.com/​artide/20140515/​CAREERS/305150044/​Air-Force-offer-3-years-off-​airmen-start-families
.

“Some women leave the Air Force”
Ibid.

McKinsey has a program
McKinsey & Company, “Take Time,” Agile Future Forum, November 2014,
agilefutureforum.co.uk/​wp-content/​uploads/2014/11/​Case-Study-McKinsey.pdf
.

This hypothetical applies equally
Abbie E. Goldberg, Julianna Z. Smith, and Maureen Perry-Jenkins, “The Division of Labor in Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual New Adoptive Parents,”
Journal of Marriage and Family
74 (2012): 812–28,
wordpress.clarku.edu/​agoldberg/​files/2012/03/​Goldberg-Smith-Perry-Jenkins-2012-JMF.pdf
; Lawrence A. Kurdek, “The Allocation of Labor by Partners in Gay and Lesbian Couples,”
Journal of Family Issues
28, no. 1 (2007): 132–48.

a now-famous essay
Alix Kates Shulman, “A Marriage Agreement,”
Up from Under
1, no. 2 (August–September 1970): 5–8.

Slate
writer and academic Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion, “The Pre-Pregnancy Contract,”
Slate
, July 10, 2014,
slate.com/​articles/​double_x/​doublex/2014/07/​pre_pregnancy_contract_signing_​on_the_dotted_line_to_avoid_​household_conflict.single.html
.

It will increasingly be the world
“Future of Work: There's an App for That,”
Economist
, January 3, 2015,
economist.com/​news/​briefing/2163735-freelance-workers-available-moments-notice-will​-reshape-nature-companies-and?fsrc=scn/​tw_ec/​there_s_an_app_for_that
.

they do not provide the pay and benefits
Kevin Roose, “Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem?,”
New York
, September 18, 2014,
nymag.com/​daily/​intelligencer/2014/09/​silicon-valleys-​contract-worker-problem.html
.

a prescient book
Thomas W. Malone,
The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your
Management Style, and Your Life
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004), p. 74. For information on SAGAFTRA, see
sagaftra.org/​union-information
.

Bliss Lawyers
Deborah Epstein Henry, Suzie Scanlon Rabinowitz, and Garry A. Berger,
Finding Bliss: Innovative Legal Models for Happy Clients and Happy Lawyers
(Chicago: American Bar Association, 2015).

Topcoder matches freelance computer coders
“Future of Work: There's an App for That.”

“we share stories”
Email to Anne-Marie Slaughter, April 2, 2015.

Ninety-seven percent of openworking companies
Openwork.org
.

“[GM Financial] handed over”
Interview with Kathleen Christensen, program director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, October 9, 2014.

Ryan, LLC
Ellen Galinsky and Mike Aitken, “2013 Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Work,” When Work Works, 2012, p. 6,
familiesandwork.​org/​downloads/​2013Guideto​BoldNewIdeas.​pdf
. All of the companies listed as winners are the Families and Work Institute's and the Society for Human Resources' When Work Works awardees. The selection process is rigorously designed to survey both employers and employees on effective and flexible workplaces. It uses the employees' ratings to account for two-thirds of the winning score.

Ernst & Young
Ibid., p. 62.

Deloitte has a program
Cathy Benko and Anne Weisberg, “Mass Career Customization™: A New Model for How Careers Are Built,”
Ivey Business Journal
, May/June 2008,
iveybusinessjournal.com/​publication/​mass-career-customization-a-new-​model-for-how-careers-are-built
.

“Over the course of a long career”
Renee McGaw, “Life Balance Issues Are Gender-Neutral,”
Denver Business Journal
, January 18, 2009,
bizjournals.com/​denver/​stories/2009/01/19/​focus1.html
.

consider 1-800 CONTACTS
Openwork.org
.

Delta Air Lines has created
“Workplace Awards: Delta Air
Lines,” When Work Works, Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management, 2014,
whenworkworks.org/​workplace-awards/​delta-air-lines
.

Southern California Gas Company
“Workplace Awards: Southern California Gas Company,” When Work Works, Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management, 2014,
whenworkworks.org/​workplace-awards/​southern-​california-gas-company
.

American Express employees
Joan Blades and Nanette Fondas,
The Custom-Fit Workplace: Choose When, Where, and How to Work and Boost Your Bottom Line
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010), pp. 58–59, citing “Telework Facts & Stats,” Telework Coalition,
telcoa.org/​resources/​references/​telework-tools/​telework-facts-stats
; “Workspace Utilization and Allocation Benchmark,” GSA Office of Government-wide Policy, July 2011,
gsa.gov/​graphics/​ogp/Workspace_Utilization_​Banchmark_July_2012.pdf
.

the software startup Evernote
Douglas MacMillan, “To Recruit Techies, Companies Offer Unlimited Vacation,”
Businessweek
, July 19, 2012,
businessweek.com/​articles/2012-07-19/​to-recruit-techies-companies-offer-​unlimited-vacation
.