Creating a coherent, sustainable, and satisfying way of integrating your personal and professional responsibilities and interests.

1. Archery Club
MARCH 2017
Work/Life Effectiveness

2. What is work/life
effectiveness?

4. A coherent, sustainable,
and satisfying way of integrating
your personal and professional
responsibilities and interests.

5. Work/life effectiveness…
• Not just a scheduling issue…
• Acknowledging and integrating all the roles you play
• Aligning your priorities with your values
• Setting boundaries

6. What gets in the way?

7. Rigid workplaces

8. Contradictory or irreconsilable aspirations

9. Inadequate support

10. Deeply ingrained gender biases

11. Gender pay gap by age
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, reported in U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Highlights of Women’s Earnings in 2015, Table 1

12. Why the gap widens…
• The career costs of “temporal flexibility”
• The (gendered) stigma of “special treatment”
• The too high/too low cost of child and eldercare
• Unequal access to even the most basic work/life
accommodations & opportunities

13. How to manage

14. How to manage
1. Get serious about your priorities
Put it on paper, map out the trade-offs, be honest about your needs
2. Seek progressive employers
Look for explicit policies, women in leadership, cultural cues
3. Do the math
Factor in short term gains and effects on future earning potential
4. Cultivate allies and be an ally
Support everyone’s work/life goals, be an example for others

15. Appendix
• Claudia Goldin’s research:
• Freakonomics Radio interview
• Anne Marie Slaughter
• "Unfinished Business" book review NY Times
• “Why Women Still Can't Have It All”
• The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap (AAUW)