“Having It All” in Graduate School: Balancing Work and Family Life Historically and Today

Join GSAS Futures for a discussion featuring Dr. Kirsten Swinth from the Department of History. Dr. Swinth will discuss the challenges which have faced working professionals as they have balanced building a career while raising a family from the 1970s through the present. America’s labor force has shifted to include more working mothers than ever before. This gender and economic transformation has remade parents’ roles and responsibilities and elicited ongoing discussion about managing the twin responsibilities of workplace and household labor, for both women and men.

Dr. Swinth will draw from her forthcoming book “Having it All:” Feminist Struggles over Work and Family, 1963 – 1978 (Harvard University Press, 2018) to comment on this topic historically while connecting it to related challenges that affect working graduate students seeking to raise families today.

Coffee and light refreshments will be served. For questions and to RSVP, please contact gsasfutures@fordham.edu.