Helping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
View ArticleWhat’s a Guy to Do?
Major media has done it again. The New York Times Magazine today has a piece entitled: “Lean In, Dad” in which a young-sounding female writer, CATHERINE RAMPELL, bemoans the fact that her last two...
View ArticleWhat Working Fathers Need to Address Workplace Equality
Cameron Phillips argues that taking gender out of the equation reinforces the work/life problem facing fathers and mothers I have an unhealthy devotion to baseball. I’ve had it since I was a child....
View ArticleSheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” And Its Lessons For Working Dads
Photo Four points from the memoir by Facebook’ COO make valuable lessons for fathers It took me a while, but I finally read Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to...
View ArticleMoms and Dads Reach Workplace Equality: Neither Can Have It All
Reports in mainstream media confirm the same thing: Men and women are equally dissatisfied with current work-life balance, reports Scott Behson ♦◊♦ Over the past few weeks, articles have appeared in...
View ArticleFour Ways Great Dads Are Discriminated Against and What We Can Do About It
Could equal rights for fathers be the key to helping more mums and dads to have it all? I was looking at a school book from the 1950s recently and discovered that in post-war Britain all dads used...
View ArticleOf Babies and Men: A Stay-at-Home Dad Reflects on Stewart Friedman’s Baby Bust
Vincent O’Keefe’s daughter said to him, “Dad, I think you wanted boys instead of girls.” Here are his reflections. “What is the point of this again?” That’s the question my thirteen-year-old recently...
View ArticleWall Street Women Lean In, Stay At Home Dads Help Wives’ Careers
D. A. Wolf is pleased that work and family issues are taking center stage in today’s New York Times. But she thinks the article misses the bigger issues of the economic forces at play in today’s...
View ArticleBeing One of the “Lean In” Men
You never know what will happen when you try something new. Shadley Grei learned a lot more than he expected when he gave in and read Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In. Honestly, I wasn’t that...
View ArticleWhy One Father Supports Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” Campaign and Thinks You...
Tweet The #BanBossy movement has sharply divided the opinions of fathers online, but Scott Behson believes that the campaign isn’t really about banning words—it’s about standing up for women —...
View ArticleIt’s Not Okay to Be Afraid of a Word: This Father Will Not #BanBossy
Tweet Dad blogger Joel Gratcyk disagrees with Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” campaign, arguing that censoring a word does nothing to address the inherent problems the word is masking. — I have a problem...
View ArticleThere’s a New Trend in Town and We Need You to Write About It
View image | gettyimages.com Getty Images gives us a Visual Trends webinar called #GenderBlend2015 and we want YOU to give us your views. — It’s been true since mankind drew images on cave walls; if...
View ArticleI’m a Dad. So Why Do People Call Me ‘Mrs.’?
Dads can lean in too. Grant Schneider explains. —- The administrator at our children’s school recently called our house and asked if she could speak with “Mrs. Diamond.” I understood instantly — she...
View ArticleNot “Just One of the Guys,” Sarah Thomas Is “Just” The NFL’s First Female...
Sean Swaby breaks down the NFL’s hiring of Sarah Thomas as its first female official. ___ I don’t watch a lot of football. I am just not a fan of sports where men chase balls. But this week the NFL...
View ArticleCall for Submissions: Books for Women that Men Should Read
Ladies, which books do you wish every man would read? Last month I met Sheryl Sandberg and I learned a little more about Leaning In and what that means… what other books “for women” do I and other men...
View ArticleAre Women Really Less Ambitious Than Men?
Sue Nador hates to agree with Fox News, but she finds common ground on what’s holding women back in the workplace. ___ Leave it to Fox News to hit another one out of the ballpark. A little while back,...
View Article28 Trillion Reasons Why Gender Equality Should Be Our Top Priority
Click to view the full infographic! According to the McKinsey Global Institute, advancing the cause of gender equality could add $28 trillion (that’s $28,000,000,000) to the global annual GDP by 2025....
View ArticleDads Doing Both: Helpful Hints for the Man Who Wants to Win at Home and Work
Ray Arata shares tips on how men can support women at home and work. This post is from LeanIn.org, a partner in the Better Man Conference where the Good Men Project community has special access and...
View ArticleThe Day I Got Death Threats For Asking Men To Stand Up To Sexism
10 years ago – almost to the day – I got a phone call from CNN. Later that day, I got death threats for what I said. ♦◊♦ I was 21 years old and a senior at Southern Methodist University. They asked me...
View ArticleHelping My Wife Lean In
Scott Behson takes his own advice for two-career families. My wife just started a new show, leaving me to shoulder the load for a while so I can help her “Lean In” to her career. Four ways our family...
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