HBR Working Dads Collection (6 Books)

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When a Stay-at-Home Dad Goes Back to Work

by Whitney Johnson and Roger Johnson

Quick Takes

• Plan your workforce reentry before you exit
• Embrace adaptation and change
• Men’s networks tilt toward other men—use this to your advantage
• When you do relaunch, be an example for other dads

In 2015, our family upended itself and moved from Boston, our home of nearly 15 years, to central Virginia so Roger could accept a position at Southern Virginia University, an up-and-coming liberal arts university.

Nearly a decade earlier, with a PhD in molecular biology from Columbia University, he was pursuing a promising career as an assistant professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School and had recently published a paper in Nature. Our children were ...