Slim Jim launched a "man medicine" ad campaign last year, lampooning men whose increasing life responsibilities lead them to wear baby carriers and lug shopping bags.
The report documents some of the changes in the U.S. workforce which have increased the need for flexibility in the workplace, including the increased number of women entering the labor force, the prevalence of families where all adults work, increasing eldercare responsibilities, and the rising importance of continuing education.
As a social scientist, career woman (not gal) and parent who has been married for 20 years, I find Noer's article to be vicious and disrespectful to the increasing number of women who either need or want to develop a professional lives while successfully balancing their personal and parental responsibilities.