Our daughter Emily is working on a senior thesis this coming year. She’s studying the choices women make to balance their careers and families. This is a subject Emily has some personal experience with having watched The Gotham Gal quit her job when our son Josh was born and make a number of other career sacrifices so she could care for our young family.
Emily wants to capture real stories from real women and has built a website she calls Opting Out For The Kids where women can share their stories with her and the world.
It’s a pretty basic website. Anyone can read the stories and upvote them. But you need to log in with Facebook if you want to post a story. Once you log in, you will see a link that says POST and that’s how you write a post to tell your story.
Emily alpha launched this website at the start of the summer but it had some quirks and she recently fixed them and is now re-launching it.
If you are a woman who has an “opting out for the kids” story to tell, please go here, login with Facebook, and tell it. And if you have followers on Twitter or Facebook who might be women with these kinds of stories, please post a link to Opting Out For The Kids so that other women can find this website and tell their stories.
And, as I mentioned, anyone can read and upvote these stories and I would encourage everyone to do that.
Emily will appreciate it and so will I. And I will ask Emily if I can post the results of her research here next spring when it’s completed.
