The worst part of my leave ending is that with it ends a curious relationship I’d developed with time. What time is it? I often wondered over the past 10 weeks. (My five-month-old gave no response to these queries.) What day is it? I even managed to wonder a few times. My relationship to time—once … Continue reading On feeling (again) that time is no longer mine
Tag: parental leave
On why me taking parental leave is a good thing for my employer
For my firm, it’s a work week like any other. For me, it’s a non-work week—my wife and I are home from the hospital with a new baby and work doesn’t enter the picture. But somewhere in the multiverse, I am logging on in my home office and join that work week, despite having a … Continue reading On why me taking parental leave is a good thing for my employer
Did I receive the “fatherhood bonus”? (Um, yes.)
Recently, in researching parental/family leave, I came across a worrying concept: the fatherhood bonus. In an article published in the Third Way, sociologist Michelle Budig looks at the fatherhood bonus alongside and its partner concept, the motherhood penalty, and explores some of the reasons that they occur in workplaces across the US. Of course, the … Continue reading Did I receive the “fatherhood bonus”? (Um, yes.)
Taylor Coe 