By Pooja Makhijani
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Jan 08, 2021
Despite advances in gender equity, women do a significantly larger share of unpaid labor in the home—an inequity only exacerbated by the pandemic. It’s no wonder, then, that mothers remain the primary readership for parenting books.
In
The Working Mom Blueprint, which American Academy of Pediatrics will publish in May, Whitney Casares provides tips on balancing parenting and paid labor outside the home. Barrett Winston, senior manager of publishing acquisitions and business development at AAP, explains that the book is atypical for the publisher in that it centers on the care of the parent, rather than the child, and stresses self-compassion. “[Casares] says there are ways to be kind to yourself and be generous,” Winston says. “Women do take on most of the emotional life of the family. There are strategies you can take to balance it. The advice and mantras in the book are evergreen, but needed more than ever right now.”