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When both parents work and share household responsibilities equitably, everyone in the family thrives. That’s the conclusion of Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober, co-authors of Getting to 50-50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All (Random House, 2009). They will be speaking about their book and their research at Palo Alto Parents Place, Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ family resource center. Their presentation and book signing take place Tuesday, October 13, at 6:30 pm. The cost is $15. The Palo Alto Parents Place is at 200 Channing Avenue.
Meers, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs’ West Coast office, and Strober, an attorney and venture capitalist, assert in their book that everyone in the family reaps huge rewards when both parents contribute equally to breadwinning and caregiving responsibilities. They base their argument on extensive research and interviews, and they offer practical and effective solutions to parents struggling to cope with issues of time, money, and professional and personal responsibilities.
Meers and Strober bring an “Obama-like spirit” to the ongoing struggle of men and women to balance it all, wrote Rachel Pastan in the Huffington Post. She observed that the authors are “well informed and clear-eyed,” and that they “offer strategies for everything from changing your boss’s attitude toward your commitment to your job to getting your husband to see the house and kids as truly his responsibility as well as yours.”
Preregistration for the event is required. Go to www.parentsplaceonline.org/peninsula or call 650-688-3040. Childcare for the event is also available. The cost is $10 and $5 for each additional child. Advance registration for childcare is necessary.
About Parents Place
Parents Place is a caring family resource center that gives all families access to support, tools, and services needed to raise healthy children. We offer parent/child activity groups; workshops for parents and caregivers; counseling, consultation, and coaching services for parents and children; and other programs, such as the Center for Special Needs, that meet the needs of families and children.