HeyJaredThe Maternal Stress Project
Exploring the stress load of modern American motherhood… and how we fix it together.
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The stress of time (opens the original)
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“Society views women’s time as infinite, like sand, and it views men’s time as finite, like diamonds.” – Eve RodskyThe last few weeks have been… let’s say… creatively distracting. A few things in the works (more on that soon!) and a few other unexpected bumps in the road pulling me away from my keyboard. So it seemed appropriate to reshare this piece on </
AUDIO -- The stress of time (opens the original)
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This week is a reshare of my piece on time.Looking back at it, I laughed at the subtitle – “Does time pressure disproportionately affect women’s health?” – because it feels like an obvious YES. The discourse around the gender time gap – the gender exercise gap, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/10/27/working-husbands-in-the-us-have-more-leisur
Yes, the stress associated with ‘child education’ affects moms more. (opens the original)
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AUDIO -- Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. (opens the original)
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Maybe because of the pandemic-parenting scar tissue and my positive feelings of resolution and rescue, I’ve always associated back-to-school with parental stress reduction. And as much as I would love to explore the stress load release that many parents are feeling shipping their kids off this week (or any time in the last month), another school year comes with another reminder that I completely missed factoring in the various ways the broader category of child education can affect our brains an
“It's time to invest in moms” (opens the original)
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“Moms are not willing to be ignored anymore.” — Erin ErenbergRemember that time we came really damn close to passing a federal paid leave policy?Five years ago, in the dark days of the pandemic, the Build Back Better Act headed to Congress. Alongside paid leave, the bill had other supportive measures1 that seemed to acknowledge and address the reason so many American fa
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