Category: Study Finds Women’s MBAs Hazardous to Marital Health

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Yesterday’s WSJ Careers column looks at some gloomy statistics for women with MBAs — they are twice as likely as their male counterparts to get divorced or separated.
That is the finding in a soon-to-be-published study by Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson. Using a National Science Foundation survey of more […]

I have foggy memories of the first few months back from maternity leave. They include not getting a lot of sleep, downing what was probably way too much coffee and lugging my breast pump on the bus.
But there were challenges apart from being woken at 3 a.m. or frantically trying to find a place […]

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Yesterday’s WSJ Careers column looks at some gloomy statistics for women with MBAs — they are twice as likely as their male counterparts to get divorced or separated.
That is the finding in a soon-to-be-published study by Washington & Lee University School of Law Prof. Robin Fretwell Wilson. Using a National Science Foundation survey of more […]

The HBO series Sex and the City ended in 2004. But now with the upcoming release of the “Sex and the City” movie, the show is coming under scrutiny for its influence on the shopping, partying and dating habits of young women.
Starring Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, the series chronicled the loves and […]

A front-page WSJ article today looks at men who are throwing off the stigma of collecting alimony. Alimony recipients who are male rose to 3.6% from 2.4% during the five years ending in 2006, and is expected to grow as more women become the family’s primary earner, the piece says.
Traditionally, men receiving post-divorce payouts have […]

The HBO series Sex and the City ended in 2004. But now with the upcoming release of the “Sex and the City” movie, the show is coming under scrutiny for its influence on the shopping, partying and dating habits of young women.
Starring Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, the series chronicled the loves and […]

A reminder to readers to check out our lineup for the next Juggle book club and cast your vote. We’ll close voting at the end of the day tomorrow and announce the next book.

On Saturday the Journal’s Jonathan Kaufman and Carol Hymowitz looked at an unfortunate byproduct of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination: an apparent backlash against women’s workplace and societal gains, expressed in uncommonly open misogynist terms.
One of the article’s anecdotes encapsulates the issue: “Katherine Putnam, president of Package Machinery Co., a West […]

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At home or at work, the juggle is a lot more difficult when we let things drive us to a loss of temper. Yet as much as we remind our kids to use gentle voices and solve problems with constructive conversation, stress-wracked working parents find themselves blowing gaskets all too often.
My good friend Neal Pollack, […]

Yesterday, Jennifer posted about people who reach their juggle breaking point, deciding to cut back on work, or quit, to focus on family. We wondered, how do families swing it financially when they go to single-earner status?
In past posts, Juggle readers have suggested giving up cable, pets or fancy cars. But do those cuts realistically […]