Blog #35

The “Best Practices” article to promote work/family balance focuses on the additional responsibilities of employees who are additionally caregivers. Caregivers face many challenges when balancing the work and family life because they are not evenly distributed among the working population. This article points out that women are more dominant as caregivers and that minority women are the most dominant caregivers. The involvement of women in the workforce has increased dramatically and most layoffs have been those of men. As a result, women’s jobs are becoming more and more important to the family. The article stresses to employers that they should acknowledge these challenges and work with and understand a caregivers situation in order to create a better and more productive working environment for all. This article touches on the issues that we have covered in the readings and other course materials that discuss the hardships of balancing work and family life. It is important that articles like this continue to circulate in places of employment so that people who cannot easily relate to caregivers are provided with insight and will be more helpful and innovational in their business practices. This document does not require employers to take any action, but strongly suggests it, which is a huge benefit to caregivers. This article supports the issue that women are faced with more pressures than men in their careers because they also have to raise their families. While women have increased in the workforce, the pressures for them to raise children are still heavy in society.