The following external resources may also support couples as they make the transition to successful, professional parents. Please note these are external sites and resources - Professional Parents are not responsible for the content within them or for maintaining these sites.
Media and Online Articles:
"I'm going part time so I can put my baby to bed, says Natasha Kaplinsky" - The Daily Mail 12.02.09
"KPMG to offer staff shorter week" - BBC.co.uk 16.01.09
"Mandelson warned not to backtrack on flexibility rights" - The Independent 19.11.08
"Flexible working: blessing or curse? Doing fewer hours may make life easier for some, but for others it means less pay in the downturn" - The Times 16.11.08
"Flexible working could help to cut costs" - The Sunday Times 09.11.08
"New right to 'flexitime' for 4.5 million parents" - The Independent 23.07.08
"My husband does it all, admits equal rights chief" - Evening Standard 17.07.08
"Equality chief warns of maternity law backlash" - The Guardian 14.07.08
"Is this the end of the stay at home mother?" - The Guardian 26.05.08
"KPMG launches new maternity and paternity package" - PersonnelToday.Com 31.03.08
Advocates of Free Time - The FT 26.11.07
Research and Data:
Why women mean business, Wittenberg-Cox, 2008-12-15
Work and Family - Allies or Enemies, Friedman & Greenhaus, 2000
Fatherhood Institute research summary: Fathers, Mothers, Work and Family 2008
The McKinsey Quarterly - Centred leadership: How talented women thrive 2008
Chartered Management Institute - Management Futures The World in 2018
Working Families - New study on absenteeism finds flexibility can reduce absence levels
2005
Working Families - Part-time workers are more productive 2005
Work/Life Balance - A Survey of Local Authorities 2001
Useful websites:
Working Families - A UK organisation which promotes work/life balance www.workingfamilies.org.uk
Netmums - Online community with segment focused on balancing working and childcare http://www.netmums.com/working/
Fatherhood Institute - A UK think tank for fatherhood issues http://www.fatherhoodinstitute.org/
Work Retune - A guide for people operating at senior level who want to change the way they work without changing the job they love. Also provides a guide for employers. http://workingfamilies.ionetwork.ac.uk/retune/dashboard.do?menuID=0_1
The Glass Hammer - Online community / publication for female executives in financial services, law and business. www.theglasshammer.com
The Fawcett Society - Campaigning organisation dedicated to achieving equality for women. www.fawcettsociety.org.uk
Centre for Women in Business, London Business School - Undertakes research that advances the understanding around the implicit biases and gender differences in attitudes, behaviours and preferences, in particular academic research in the area of gender diversity and the role of women in the workplace. http://www.london.edu/womeninbusiness.html