Center in the News
Television
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen spoke with Fox 25 News about Sheryl Sandberg's book "Lean In" on Work-Life Wednesday: "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"
- WGBH's Greater Boston featured a discussion of "Lean In" and women in the workplace with Danielle Hartmann in The Sandberg Fallout
- Brad Harrington shared his thoughts on the recent Yahoo announcement that the company will end remote work arrangements with New England Cable News.
- Jennifer Sabatini Fraone spoke with Fox 25 News about the rising costs of child care reported in a new study by Child Care Aware
- Brad Harrington interviewed with Al Ruechel of Bay News 9 on the Changing Role of Fathers
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen was a guest on NECN's Broadside discussing Yahoo! CEO rewriting mom track (August, 2012)
- Danielle Hartmann discussed the importance of Taking Your Vacation with Fox 25 News in Boston (August, 2012)
- Danielle Hartmann discussed the topic of working mothers with Fox 25 News in realtion to the appointment of Marissa Meyer as the new Yahoo CEO
- Jennifer Sabatini Fraone spoke with Sorboni Banerjee of FOX 25 Morning News about "Having it all" (July, 2012)
- Brad Harrington spoke about the Changing role of dads on Fox 25's Work-Life Wednesday segment (June, 2012)
- Work Life Wednesday: Millennials in the workplace BCCWF Executive-in-Residence Lauren Stiller Rikleen spoke with fox25news anchor Kim Carrigan about Millennials in the workplace in conjunction with the release of our new publication Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders: the Expanding Roles of Millennials in the Workplace (September, 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, 2011).
- Brad Harrington discussed the changing role of fathers on Canadian Sun Network’s Charles Adler Show. (June, 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, 2011).
See our Work-Life Wednesday page for additional Fox 25 News segements
Radio
- Brad Harrington discussed the 20th Anniversary of FMLA with Minnesota Public Radio's The Daily Circuit 20 years after FMLA, is work leave helping enough employees?
- "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
- Brad Harrington was quoted in the Fortune story Stop blaming your boss for your crazy work-life
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen wrote ‘Lean In’ author Sheryl Sandberg needs to ‘lean on’ the workplace in the Boston Globe
- Brad Harrington wrote about the Yahoo! decision to end remote work in The Huffington Post Searching for Stability in Changing Times
- Yahoo! recently announced that it would be suspending remote work for employees. Executive Director Brad Harrington and BCCWF research were called upon in articles on the topic. NY Times Bloomberg Forbes NECN Boston Magazine NY Daily News Economic Times
- BCCWF research is cited in a story on how brands and advertisers are waking up to the shifting roles of men and fathers in the NY Times Don't Call Him Mom, or an Imbecile
- The New Dad study was referenced in the NY Times story Why Gender Equality Stalled
- Brad Harrington commented on gender roles in the media and advertsing in the Huffington Post Front-lines and Sidelines: Time to Let Go of Gender Stereotypes
- Lauren Rikleen discussed gender bias in Superbowl Ads in the Boston Globe Not buying offensive Super Bowl ads
- Executive Director Brad Harrington comments on two of the stories of the summer, the Olympics and the "Having it all" discussion, in Huffington Post.
- Brad Harrington was quoted in the New York Times article Dads Are Taking Over as Full-Time Parents
- Danielle Hartmann discussed What Happened to the Lunch Break? with LiveScience.com
- Jennifer Sabatin Fraone was featured in the Bangor Metro's 2012 Women's Guide on The Great Balancing Act
- Assistant Director Jennifer Sabatini Fraone comments on the benefits that parents can bring to the workplace in HR Executive.
- Fred Van Desen was quoted in The Globe and Mail article Stay-at-home dads aren’t a novelty act
- Stay-at-home dads are satisfied with their choice: Brad Harrington was interviewed for this boston.com article about the ultimate satisfaction stay-at-home dads had with their choice, despite obstacles in their way.
- Brad Harrington is quoted in MSNBC's article about the stuggle to "have it all."
- The Daddy Track: In this Huffington Post article, Brad Harrington is quoted on the position of the modern father in society.
- In the Balance: Brad Harrington joins the discussion on work-family balance in this New York Life article.
- Diversity Executive article Daddy’s Home: How to Support Working Fathers features the New Dad study and quotes Executive Director Brad Harrington as well as our partners at Eli Lilly.
- Brad Harrington and Director of Corporate Partnerships Danielle Hartmann are featured in this publication by Workplace Options:
Global Work-Life: Supporting the Workforce of the Future
- Executive-in-Resdience Lauren Stiller Rikleen published a Harvard Business review blog entitled A Key to U.S. Competitiveness: Work-Life Balance
- Are Millennials Ready to Lead? Evolved Employer reviews our Executive Briefing Creating Tomorrow's Leaders: the Expanding Roles of Millennials in the Workplace and quotes Executive-In-Residence Lauren Stiller Rikleen.
- 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).
- BCCWF Executive-in-Residence Lauren Stiller Rikleen was interviewed by the Worcester Business Journal for their story on Millennials entitled Technology And The Generation Gap (September 11, 2011).
Brad Harrington is quoted inTime Magazine's cover story Chore Wars. (August 8, 2011).
An in-depth interview with Brad Harrington on The New Dad: Caring, Committed and Conflicted was published in the The New York Post. (June 27, 2011).
- The Dayton Daily News recently published a detailed look at the changing face of fatherhood and an interview with Brad Harrington. (June 25, 2011).
- Fortune interviewed Brad Harrington for their look at The Changing Face of the American Working Dad. (June 17, 2011).
- Brad Harrington was interviewed for Working Dads' Top Priority is Giving Family Love in Reuters News Service. (June 15, 2011).
- Results of the Center for Work & Family’s recent study on fathers which was authored by Brad Harrington, Fred Van Deusen, and Beth Humberd, were discussed in the New York Times piece, Fathers More Active, and More Absent by columnist Lisa Belkin. (June 11, 2011).
- Brad Harrington is interviewed by the Boston Globe for New Study Defines the New Dad. (June 23, 2010).
- The New York Times, Now, Dad Feels as Stressed as Mom focuses on the Center's research study on fatherhood by Brad Harrington, Fred Van Deusen, and Jamie Ladge. (June 19, 2010).
- New Dads Want to Be More Than Breadwinners reports Reuters based on study led by Brad Harrington. (June 18, 2010).
- Brad Harrington comments onThe New Dad study in The Huffington Post in The Changing Face of Fatherhood. (June 16, 2010).
- Brad Harrington shared his thoughts on a possible future direction for the work-life movement in the Sloan Work-Family Research network blog. (January 5, 2010).