Center in the News

Television

  • Brad Harrington was interviewed on Fox 25 News during Work-Life Wednesday to discuss the data used in Time Magazine's "Chore Wars." (August 10, 2011).

  • Danielle Hartmann visited Fox 25 News to discuss new research that suggested that having a working mother may positively affect young girls. (August 1, 2011).

  • Jennifer Fraone discussed the balance between the vacation season and work on Work-Life Wednesday for Fox 25 News. (July 13, 2011).

  • Brad Harrington shared the results of The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted, the Center for Work & Family’s latest quantitative study on the status of fathers in America, co-authored by Fred Van Deusen and Beth Humberd, on CNN American Morning. (June 30, 2011).

  • Brad Harrington discussed the changing role of fathers on Canadian Sun Network’s Charles Adler Show. (June 17, 2011).

  • New Generation of Fathers: Brad Harrington was interviewed by news anchor Gene Lavanchy on the Center’s fatherhood research on Fox 25 News. (June 15, 2011).

  • Jennifer Fraone was interviewed on Fox 25 News concerning a poll that showed that many American workers were not using their vacation days. (May 26, 2011).

  • The discussion on workplace flexibility for Fox 25 News' Work-Life Wednesday featured Jennifer Fraone. (April 13, 2011).

  • Jennifer Fraone discussed the dilemma of which parent should stay home from work with a sick child on Fox 25 News. (March 30, 2011).

  • Jennifer Fraone spoke about the guilt that working moms feel when their work life creeps into family time on Fox 25 News. (March 15, 2011).

Radio

  • "Shared parenting" was the topic of conversation on WBUR's Radio Boston when Brad Harrington appeared along with Marc and Amy Vachon, authors of Equally Shared Parenting. (June 16, 2011).

  • The Time Magazine cover story "Chore Wars" states that when combining paid and unpaid work, men and women put in the same number of hours. Brad Harrington and NYU Professor of Sociology Kathleen Gerson were expert commentators on Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show with host Kerry Miller. (August 10, 2011).

Print/Online

  • Human Resource Executive quoted Jennifer Sabatini Fraone in the story A Big Divide on the significant "implementation gap" between employers  work-life policies and practices.
  • Assistant Director Jennifer Sabatini Fraone was interviewed for the Boston.com on-line feature gallery on How to juggle the work-life balance (September 12, 2011).