Katelin Isaacs

Workplace Flexibility: A Policy Problem

The American family changed dramatically overthe last decades of the twentieth century. In1960, 70 percent of families had a parent homefull-time. Today, this is reversed. Fully 70percent of families with children are now headedby two working parents or by an unmarriedworking parent. The breadwinner and homemaker have been replaced by “juggler parents” with responsibility for both makingends meet and caring for the family. And thisfamily can now include elderly relatives. Morethan… more