Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What will my boss think? Sure, it would be swell to stay home with the wife and baby. But will I fall off the corporate ladder...
...when considering a paternity leave. Marc Greenhouse did not hesitate to take a month's leave three months ago, when his first child, daughter Ranit, was born. A 40-year-old data-processing systems analyst for Transamerica, Greenhouse began his time off a few days before his wife Dianne gave birth by caesarean section. He savored the days with his infant. Says he: "It was really a blessing...
...sunrise every morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, the Shanker family gets ready for work. Steven Shanker, 37, and his wife Avima, 35, wake their two sons, Elan, 5, and Dannel, 2, for a hurried breakfast of cereal and orange juice. After the meal Avima heads off by 7:30 to her job as an engineer at Librascope, a computer firm. Then, as other pinstriped parents up and down the San Fernando Valley march out to their cars with groggy children in tow, Steven, a vice president at Union Bank in nearby Monterey Park, drives the boys...
Companies may be wary of heavy-handed Government intervention, but more and more of them recognize that corporate America must adapt to a rapidly changing workforce. Both husband and wife hold jobs in 57% of U.S. couples with children, up from 43% in 1978. In 1950 only 12% of mothers with children under six years old worked outside the home; more than 57% do so now. Over the past ten years, in fact, the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. labor force has been mothers of children younger than three years old. More than half of these women have jobs...
...care for sick children or parents. Southern New England Telephone guarantees the employee's job for up to six months of unpaid parental leave. Mike Liquori, 34, a customer-service representative, took a four-month leave starting last October to care for his infant son Luke after his wife's maternity leave ended. Says Liquori: "It created a bond between Luke and me that maybe wouldn't be the same if I hadn't been there...