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Fathers: Please Step Up and Take Quality Daddy Time
Credit: Kannan B on Flickr, under Creative Commons (WOMENSENEWS)– For Father’s Day this year, let’s reconsider paid parental leave and paid sick leave policies that could enable fathers to do the child...
View ArticleFather’s Day Present Worth Unwrapping: Overdue Policy Advice
(WOMENSENEWS)—Millions of men will wake up Sunday to handmade cards, neckties and, maybe, a new electronic gadget. It’s Father’s Day 2016, a time to acknowledge dear old Dad. But beyond this...
View ArticleThis Father’s Day, Men Must Continue to Call Out the President’s Misogyny
(WOMENSENEWS)—With Father’s Day fast approaching, it’s an appropriate time to remember that the man occupying the White House represents among the worst expressions of manhood the U.S. has ever seen....
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A Gift for my Racist Father: A Biracial Nephew
It was October, 2019 when I last visited my father who, at 93 years old, has been living in a nursing home for the past four years. But it was not the ensuing coronavirus pandemic that prevented me...
View ArticleFathers: Please Step Up and Take Quality Daddy Time
Women are still taking much more time off work than men to care for their children. Economically and culturally, the status quo incentivizes that. But this can change with paid parental leave and paid...
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Father’s Day Present Worth Unwrapping: Overdue Policy Advice
Fathers and father figures are doing—and are expected to do—more of the child care and housework. But this revolution is highly unequal. “State of America’s Fathers 2016” suggests how lawmakers can...
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This Father’s Day, Men Must Continue to Call Out the President’s Misogyny
Men need to explicitly reject Donald Trump’s misogyny and model a sensitive, aware manhood, not what’s being expressed at the White House. This includes asking women and women’s organizations how best...
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A Gift for my Racist Father: A Biracial Nephew
Under the heading of, Be Careful Who You Hate: It Could Be Someone You Love, I couldn’t think of a better gift to give my father, on this Father's Day, than to introduce him to the biracial relative he...
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