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Kate Reddy, a hedge fund manager and mother of two, struggles to juggle her professional and personal lives and to balance--often unsuccessfully--on the tightrope of work and home.

Married to William for twenty years, Alice can still remember the first time they met like it was yesterday. But these days she finds herself posting things on Facebook that she used to confide to him. Invited to participate in an anonymous online survey on marriage and love, Alice's longings come pouring out in the answers of "Wife 22." And "Researcher 101" listens in a way that William hasn't in a long time. Meanwhile, her elderly father is tweeting,...

A law professional argues that women prioritizing their career benefits mothers, kids, and society at large by showing how they can use their talents to help others and raise awareness about issues that are important to them. Women still encounter entrenched gender bias in the workplace, and are expected to shoulder the lion's share of labor and burdens at home while being made to feel as if we're never doing enough. Bazelton believes working mothers...

"In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This is Hobbs's first book since The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace that focuses on a single character and her extraordinarily illuminating journey. In 2018, poverty and domestic violence cast Evelyn and her children into the urban wilderness of Los Angeles, where she avoids the family crisis network...

"The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty...

"Continue to have and grow your life, Mom. It's better for you and your kids"-- Provided by publisher. When did being a good mom come to mean giving up everything that makes you... you? Sóuter provides an irreverent survival guide for being a happy, whole person while still being a great (and sometimes just good enough) parent. -- adapted from back cover

"Can working parents in America--or anywhere--ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that's true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible...