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Greetings friends: 
Welcome to the Better Life Lab Newsletter!

New America's Breadwinning & Caregiving Program is now the Better Life Lab 

Here are five things you need to know this week to make your life better at work and at home:

What We're Writing (And Launching)

Brigid Schulte had an op-ed in the Toronto Globe and Mail emphasizing the point that rigid gender roles keep men trapped, too. Elizabeth Weingarten talked to Harvard's Iris Bohnet (who's joining us for an event next week - details below!) for a Quartz article on moral licensing and gender inequality. Jay Newton-Small weighed in for Time on "How Clinton Shadowboxed Trump at the Democratic Debate" and Jane Carr wrote about gender and the history of macho in presidential politics for the New America Weekly.  The Women in Cybersecurity Project at New America also launched "Humans of Cybersecurity," a storytelling project celebrating the people and ideas that are are changing our digital lives. Check it out! 

 
 

Finding History Everywhere

Happy Belated International Women’s Day! We’re also still celebrating Women’s History Month with snapshots capturing important contributions to women’s history. We hope you'll share some of your own favorites! Tweet them to us @BetterLifeLab with the hashtag #BLLhistory. Here you’ll see a monument plaque in New York’s Adirondack Mountains honoring Inez Milholland, a suffrage activist, labor lawyer, and World War I correspondent. Click the photo, snapped by BLL Fellow Jane Carr, to read more about Milholland.

Also, we were excited to read that feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian is launching a new video series on overlooked women in history! 

 
 
 

The Care-Centered Economy 

This post from David Bollier's blog offers a great analysis of Ina Praetorius's important essay, "The Care-Centered Economy." As he writes, "Introducing “care” into discussions about “the economy” can also have the effect of transforming ourselves." 

O Canada: A Global Opportunity to End Gender Bias 

Author Reva Seth quotes Anne-Marie Slaughter and Brigid Schulte in this strongly argued article in Huffington Post outlining how teenage boys can be a global opportunity to end gender bias. 

Workvana: Sometimes You Just Have to Laugh

This humor piece by Patrick Heij highlights the extremity of workplace culture and finding work-life integration even as it dishes up the giggles. 

Upcoming Better Life Lab Events

Join us March 14 for “What Works: Gender Equality By Designa lunchtime discussion featuring Harvard behavioral economist Iris Bohnet and Jenny R. Yang, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, that explores how we can use design thinking to move the needle toward eliminating unconscious bias in classrooms and boardrooms, hiring and promotion. You can RSVP to attend in person or watch via livestream here. Get a preview by watching this video trailer for Iris's new book from Harvard UP! 

Then on March 17, Wendy Paris will speak with Naomi Cahn, Linda Delaney, and NBC's Perry Bacon about her book Splitopia: Dispatches from Today's Good Divorce.

 
 

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About New America

New America is dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. Our hallmarks are big ideas, pragmatic policy solutions, technological innovation, and creative engagement with broad audiences. Read the rest of our story, or see what we've been doing recently in our latest Annual Report.

About the Better Life Lab

New America’s Breadwinning & Caregiving Program is thrilled to unveil a new name, the Better Life Lab, and an updated agenda to transform policy and culture so that people and families have the opportunity to live their best lives at work and at home. As a “lab,” we are dedicated to disruptive experiments, collaborative work, and innovative thinking.

“Your Life, Better: News From the Better Life Lab” will be our way to keep you in the know, featuring the best of what we’re reading and writing about gender equity, the evolution of work, and social policies that support 21st-century families. We will be a clear signal amid the noise to share what’s fresh and crucial to an inclusive vision of work-life, gender, and income equity issues.

Meet the Better Life Lab Team

Brigid Schulte, Program Director, Director of The Good Life Initiative, award-winning journalist, formerly of The Washington Post, and author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time
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Elizabeth Weingarten, Deputy Director, Director of GGPI
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Liza Mundy, Senior Fellow and author of The Richer Sex
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Jane Carr, American Council of Learned Societies Fellow & Program Fellow
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Katherine Zoepf, Fellow and author of Excellent Daughters
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Jay Newton-Small, National Fellow and author of Broad Influence
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Alieza Durana, Policy Analyst 
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