Our work team includes several people with young children and several without and we've been arguing about remote work policies where the parents want maximum flexibility for school emergencies and pickups while the non-parents feel like they're covering more work and staying late more often.
More people experience this than they realize.
Professional collaboration is strained by competing needs around parental responsibilities that feel both legitimate and unfair to different team members.
“Where Are You with Parental identity — becoming and losing?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.