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Working Dads Need “Me Time,” Too

by Alyssa F. Westring and Stewart D. Friedman

Quick Takes

  • Beware of dropping everything that isn’t work or family
  • Create experiments to fold self-care into your schedule
  • Focus on rejuvenating and restoring activities
  • Accept that you may struggle at first

Dads are now increasingly engaged in childcare and household responsibilities, in addition to demanding jobs. They report levels of work-family conflict on par with (and, in some cases, higher than) mothers.1 In addition, fathers who give higher-than-average levels of childcare, ask for paternity leave, or interrupt their careers for family reasons are harassed more at work, receive worse performance evaluations, and get paid less than men who either don’t ...

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