My Research Findings

Businesses should provide and encourage the use of paid parental leave and childcare benefits as they have long-term productivity benefits. 

Web searches on work-nonwork balance, flexible work arrangements, family and medical leave, and childcare peaked around the COVID-19 pandemic onset and the passing of emergency paid leave. 

Mothers' emotional exhaustion at work spreads to their adolescent children's emotional exhaustion at school as the child copies the mother's surface-level management of emotions.  

Survivors of corporate cost-cutting worry about future employment changes, reducing their attention at work. 

Professional associations should support members' caregiving needs at their conferences. 

Adolescents aspire to careers at low risk for automation. 

Gaps exist between evidence-based practices and legal mandates for supporting lactation at work.